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Judge Keeps Letitia James’s Trump Probe Alive
A federal judge rejected Donald Trump’s bid to halt New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil investigation, handing Trump another legal setback and keeping the probe on track.
Edition · April 9, 2022
The Daily Fuckup — April 9, 2022
1 verified report published on April 9, 2022.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
Closing take
This edition is light on quantity but heavy on pattern recognition. The through-line on April 8, 2022 was that Trump’s preferred strategy—slow the process, attack the referee, change the subject—kept running into judges, investigators, and the calendar. Even on a relatively thin day, that is its own kind of screwup.
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