A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on November 19, 2022.
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For a backfill day, this was less a single jaw-dropper than a confirmation that the Trump operation’s biggest problems were becoming institutional. The special counsel appointment made the legal threat more independent and harder to shrug off, while the election-fraud fallout kept underlining how much of Trump-world’s politics depended on a lie that still had to be defended in public.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith special counsel on Nov. 18, 2022, to oversee the federal investigations into efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the handling of classified documents and other presidential records.
Arizona officials released records in February 2023 showing investigators found no evidence to support widespread 2020 election-fraud claims, while staff spent more than 10,000 hours on related complaints and investigations.