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2 verified reports published on February 22, 2023.
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For Trump, the problem was not just what investigators might find. It was that the Georgia case was already looking like a never-ending drip of public humiliation, and on February 22 the drip was loud enough to sound like a leak in the hull.
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The special grand jury foreperson’s media appearances kept Trump’s Georgia election-interference probe in the spotlight and reinforced that prosecutors had already heard enough to recommend multiple indictments. What should have been a quiet, procedural phase instead became a fresh round of public scrutiny for Trump and his allies.
On February 22, Trump’s efforts to knock out the classified-documents case were still being treated as a serious long-shot argument, not a path to escape. The day reinforced that his Mar-a-Lago fight was alive, ugly, and politically toxic.