The Daily Fuckup — May 13, 2022

Edition · May 13, 2022

The Daily Fuckup — May 13, 2022

1 verified report published on May 13, 2022.

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Closing take

The broader pattern was already hard to miss: Trump kept turning paperwork problems into worse paperwork problems. First came the boxes, then the classified markings, then the legal consequences of refusing to let a government matter stay a government matter. May 12 was the day the paper trail got a lot more dangerous for him, and the process stopped being theoretical.

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DOJ Subpoena Turns Mar-a-Lago Docs Into A Criminal Problem

classified probe Confidence 4/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

Federal investigators reportedly subpoenaed the National Archives for the documents recovered from Mar-a-Lago, a sign the classified-records dispute had escalated into a criminal inquiry. For Trump, that meant the old habit of treating government property like personal memorabilia was no longer just a scandal in slow motion. It was now a matter moving through the justice system, with the archives and prosecutors on one side and Trump’s orbit scrambling to explain the mess on the other.

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