A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on September 23, 2021.
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The day’s damage was less about one dramatic collapse than about accumulation: another courtroom loss, another document fight, another reminder that Trump’s brand runs on loud certainty and keeps running into paper trails. That’s the kind of slow-burn mess that doesn’t always look explosive in the moment, but it keeps compounding. And in Trump world, compounding embarrassment is basically a business model.
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A Manhattan judge rejected Donald Trump’s bid to toss New York’s fraud lawsuit, calling the lawyers’ arguments recycled and meritless. The ruling kept alive a case that threatens Trump’s business empire and his political standing at the same time.
A new lawsuit filed in New York sought to block Mary Trump and a major newspaper from using confidential family records tied to Donald Trump’s tax history. The filing turned an already ugly family and financial fight into a fresh legal mess on the same day the older fraud cloud kept hanging over Trump.