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Edition · January 12, 2025

The Daily Fuckup — January 12, 2025

1 verified report published on January 12, 2025.

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Closing take

On January 12, 2025, the Trump camp’s best move was still trying to keep a damaging report out of view—and even that was only buying time. The rest was the familiar pattern: more court fights, more defensive spin, and more evidence that the incoming White House was entering office with its legal baggage already packed and labeled.

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Trump’s last-ditch bid to bury the Jan. 6 report keeps turning into a public humiliation

Report suppression Confidence 4/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The special-counsel report fight was still the day’s biggest Trump-world mess, with court action continuing to keep Jack Smith’s election-interference findings from public release while the incoming team scrambled to contain the damage. The larger embarrassment was not simply that the report was delayed, but that Trump’s lawyers were in the position of asking courts to shield him from a document tied to an investigation prosecutors said was serious enough to support conviction.

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