A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on April 2, 2022.
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The headline on April 2 was less fireworks than trajectory: Trump was digging in, the investigators were pressing harder, and the court calendar was moving toward consequences. That is often how his worst messes begin — not with a single exploding moment, but with a refusal that makes the eventual blowback inevitable.
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By April 2, 2022, Donald Trump had already blown past an extended March 31 deadline to turn over documents in New York’s civil fraud investigation, after an earlier March 3 deadline was pushed back.