A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on April 23, 2021.
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Bottom line: April 23 was not a giant splash, but it was one more day when Trump’s biggest structural weakness—never really leaving the business he took into politics—kept producing legal trouble that refused to stay buried.
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The Second Circuit issued its mandate on April 23, 2021 in the Trump emoluments case, but that was a procedural step after the Supreme Court had already vacated the judgment and sent the case back with instructions to dismiss it as moot in January. The merits fight was over by then; what remained was the cleanup.