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3 verified reports published on July 13, 2022.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
For Trump, the big problem on July 13 was not one headline. It was the pattern. The committee’s case kept tightening, and every fresh detail made the old “nothing to see here” posture look more like a political escape hatch than a defense.
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Reporting on July 12-14, 2022, said Trump tried to contact a White House support staffer who was speaking with the Jan. 6 committee. The committee said it referred the matter to the Justice Department and did not say it had established witness tampering.
The inspector general told Congress that Secret Service communication records had been deleted, a development that made the already messy Jan. 6 investigation look even more compromised and gave Trump’s defenders less room to argue the probe was just theater.
The July 12 hearing made the gap between Trump’s rhetoric and the committee’s record harder to ignore, and the next day his defenses looked thinner still.