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Peter Stone in Washington

Trump trying to rewrite history in battle to bury Smith report, legal experts say

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‘Trump seems to want us to be a nation of one man – Trump,’ said the law professor Barbara McQuade. Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images

Donald Trump’s desperate legal battles to block a damaging special counsel report about his efforts to subvert his 2020 election loss and his sentencing for a 34-count felony conviction in New York ultimately failed, but former prosecutors say they nevertheless reveal his continual disdain for the rule of law and his penchant for rewriting history.

One area where that may imminently play out, as Trump prepares to return to the White House, is with his repeated pledge to issue “major pardons” to participants in the 6 January 2021 assault on the Capitol in Washington.

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