A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on December 25, 2022.
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Holiday lights do not change the scoreboard. Trump world spent this stretch looking less like a political movement than a perpetual-motion legal damage generator, and the week’s late-December fallout was another reminder that the ex-president’s favorite strategy is often just to make the mess bigger.
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The House Ways and Means Committee voted on Dec. 20, 2022, to release six years of Trump’s tax returns and related material. By the Dec. 25 edition date, the records were still not public; the actual release came later, on Dec. 30.
Trump’s late-December defamation suit against Pulitzer Prize Board members was another example of him using the courts as a political weapon. The problem is not just the lawsuit itself; it’s that the legal move invites fresh scrutiny over the Russia-era reporting he hates and keeps reviving a story he would rather bury.