A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on January 6, 2024.
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The courts may have spared Trump the ballot fight, but they did not spare him the optics. On January 6, he managed to remind the country why the day still follows him everywhere: not because he wants accountability, but because he keeps volunteering for the role of its chief heckler.
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On the third anniversary of the Capitol attack, Donald Trump campaigned in Iowa, called jailed Jan. 6 defendants “hostages,” and repeated language from his 2021 speech about acting “peacefully.”
The Supreme Court unanimously restored Trump to primary ballots, wiping out the Colorado-led effort to block him under the 14th Amendment. It was a legal win for Trump, but also a reminder that the underlying Jan. 6 issue was never resolved on the merits—only punted back into the political bloodstream.