The Daily Fuckup — June 1, 2021

Edition · June 1, 2021

The Daily Fuckup — June 1, 2021

1 verified report published on June 1, 2021.

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Closing take

The throughline for the day was simple: Trump’s favorite defense remained to deny, distract, and declare victimhood, even as the pressure around his business empire kept thickening. That may work as a cable-news posture. It is a much weaker answer when prosecutors are convening juries and digging through the books.

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The Trump Organization’s Legal Cloud Gets Darker

Legal squeeze Confidence 4/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

By June 1, prosecutors’ scrutiny of the Trump Organization had clearly moved beyond a fishing expedition and into a more dangerous phase, with a grand jury already in motion and the company’s books under sustained attack. The practical problem for Trump was not just reputational. It was that the case was now headed toward a place where his business practices could produce criminal exposure, not just nasty press and a familiar victimhood routine.

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