Washington Post: “They called it the ‘command center,’ a set of rooms and suites in the posh Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of President Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with one goal in mind: overturning the results of the 2020 election.”

“The Jan. 6 rally on the Ellipse and the ensuing attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob would draw the world’s attention to the quest to physically block Congress from affirming Joe Biden’s victory. But the activities at the Willard that week add to an emerging picture of a less visible effort, mapped out in memos by a conservative pro-Trump legal scholar and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers seeking to pull off what they claim was a legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term.”

Former President Donald Trump bashed Meghan McCain as a “bully” and a “lowlife” who should be grateful he arranged for her father to have the “world’s longest funeral,” the HuffPost reports.

Said Trump: “Isn’t it funny that Meghan McCain, who has always been a bully, and basically a lowlife, is now complaining that it was she who was bullied by the Slobs and Radical Left maniacs of ‘The View.’”

He added: “I made it possible for her father to have the world’s longest funeral… even though I was never, to put it mildly, a fan.”

Jack Shafer: “Trump is a moderately successful businessman when he sticks to his specialties — real estate and hotels. But all those overpriced, shoddy namesake products failed in the marketplace because Trump didn’t know how to compete with people who really understood those businesses.”

“We can expect Truth Social and the other world-beater enterprises TMTG proposes to likewise be sucked into the void because Trump 1) has no clue about how to run media or tech properties and 2) lacks sufficient appeal.”

“Investors on Thursday piled into shares of the special-purpose acquisition company taking former President Donald Trump’s new social-media platform public, igniting a buying frenzy reminiscent of the SPAC craze from early this year,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. more than quadrupled to $45.50 in the first trading session following the deal announcement.”

Donald Trump released a statement: “The insurrection took place on November 3, Election Day. January 6 was the Protest!”

And yet Condoleeza Rice thinks we should “move on.”

The stock price of the shell company behind Donald Trump’s new social media company has rocketed up more than 90% in trading so far today, CNBC reports.

For members: Trump’s Social Media Grift

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows “has brought on a top Republican lawyer to handle the House’s Jan. 6 investigation,” Politico reports.

“Former President Donald Trump’s family business, which is already under indictment in Manhattan, is facing a criminal investigation by another prosecutor’s office that has begun to examine financial dealings at a golf course the company owns,” the New York Times reports.

“In recent months, the district attorney’s office in suburban Westchester County, NY, has subpoenaed records from the course, Trump National Golf Club Westchester, and the town of Ossining, which sets property taxes on the course, a sprawling private club that is perched on a hill north of New York City and boasts a 101-foot waterfall.”

“The full scope of the investigation could not be determined, but the district attorney, Mimi Rocah, appears to be focused at least in part on whether Mr. Trump’s company, the Trump Organization, misled local officials about the property’s value to reduce its taxes.”

“I do think we need to be talking about the future and not the past. I think the American people are focusing on this administration — and what it’s doing to the country. It’s my hope the ’22 election will be a referendum on the performance of the current administration, not a rehash of suggestions about what may have happened in 2020.”

— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by Politico.

“A $6 billion federal program created to provide fresh produce to families affected by the pandemic was mismanaged and used by the Trump administration for political gain,” ProPublica reports.