Trump’s election lies keep boomeranging back into the room
The day’s most important Trump-world story was not a new tweet or a new tantrum. It was the continuing, documented fallout from the effort to overturn the 2020 election, with House investigators and federal prosecutors still assembling the paper trail around Trump’s pressure campaign on the Justice Department and related efforts to nullify the vote. The immediate news value on May 23, 2021 was that these were no longer abstract warnings; they were being backed by records, subpoenas, and public disclosures that showed how far the operation went.
First recorded May 23, 2021·Meaningfully updated May 23, 2021
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Trump’s election lies keep boomeranging back into the room
The day’s most important Trump-world story was not a new tweet or a new tantrum. It was the continuing, documented fallout from the effort to overturn the 2020 election, with House investigators and federal prosecutors still assembling the paper trail around Trump’s pressure campaign on the Justice Department and related efforts to nullify the vote. The immediate news value on May 23, 2021 was that these were no longer abstract warnings; they were being backed by records, subpoenas, and public …
The day’s most important Trump-world story was not a new tweet or a new tantrum. It was the continuing, documented fallout from the effort to overturn the 2020 election, with House investigators and federal prosecutors still assembling the paper trail around Trump’s pressure campaign on the Justice Department and related efforts to nullify the vote. The immediate news value on May 23, 2021 was that these were no lon…
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