A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on December 19, 2022.
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The message of the day was simple: Trump could still dominate the outrage cycle, but he could not control the paper trail. The committee rooms, the tax records, and the federal files all pointed in the same direction, and none of it was flattering.
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The House Jan. 6 committee unanimously voted to refer Donald Trump for criminal prosecution after concluding there was enough evidence to support charges tied to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The referral was not itself a prosecution, but it was a highly unusual and deeply damaging public judgment from a congressional panel that had spent months assembling its case.
House Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee voted to release years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, ending a long legal fight over records he had kept hidden for years. The move also surfaced a fresh embarrassment: the committee said the IRS had failed to audit Trump’s returns during his first two years in office despite rules requiring presidential audits.