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Documents chokehold
Confidence 4/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
The federal records mess around Trump’s boxes at Mar-a-Lago kept tightening on April 29, 2022, as the National Archives moved ahead with a plan to give the FBI access to the returned material. Trump’s team had tried to slow that process by leaning on privilege claims, but the government had already concluded those objections were not enough to stop review. The result was another unmistakable sign that this was no longer a paperwork squabble but the start of a real criminal investigation.
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Subpoena boomerang
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
On April 29, 2022, the New York fight over Trump Organization records showed a familiar weakness in Trump’s legal strategy: he kept insisting he did not have the material, and the court kept demanding a better answer. A judge rejected Trump’s latest denial and ordered him to say where the records actually were, which made the whole posture look less like a principled defense and more like a game of dodgeball with a subpoena. The practical effect was more pressure, more embarrassment, and fewer places to hide.
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