Coterie:
- a group of people who associate closely.
- an exclusive group; clique.
- a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow. [Dictionary.com]
Noted in “Trump-funded studies disputing election fraud are focus in two probes,” Josh Dawsey and Amy Gardner, WaPo:
The findings were never released to the public as Trump and a coterie of allies continued to say there was fraud. For example, the reports were not turned over to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump advisers said. The reports were not reviewed by investigators until after The Washington Post reported on their existence, two people familiar with subpoenas in the case said.
The former President as a prairie dog. Gotta like it.
