A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on July 4, 2021.
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For a holiday built on independence, Trump’s orbit spent July 4 doing the opposite: explaining away a criminal case it could not fact-check into oblivion. The bigger the megaphone, the smaller the denial sounded.
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In the days after a July 1, 2021 indictment was unsealed in New York, the Trump Organization and allies rejected the case, which charged the Trump Corporation, Trump Payroll Corporation and Allen Weisselberg in a tax-related matter. Donald Trump was not named as a defendant.