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A new round of legal and public scrutiny kept tightening around Trump’s role in the January 6 attack, with federal litigation and official findings continuing to undermine his claim that the violence was somebody else’s problem. The post-riot defense that he was just making normal political arguments is colliding with a growing record of what he said, what he amplified, and what happened next.
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A new round of legal and public scrutiny kept tightening around Trump’s role in the January 6 attack, with federal litigation and official findings continuing to undermine his claim that the violence was somebody else’s problem. The post-riot defense that he was just making normal political arguments is colliding with a growing record of what he said, what he amplified, and what happened next.
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