A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A New York appeals court cleared the way for investigators to question Donald Trump under oath, another reminder that the former president’s legal defense strategy is still mostly a pile of loud arguments and losing paperwork.
On May 26, 2022, Trump-world got hit with a fresh legal setback in New York: a state appeals court upheld the attorney general’s authority to depose Donald Trump and other Trump Organization figures as part of the civil fraud probe. It was not the biggest Trump disaster of the year, but it was a clean, concrete loss that kept a damaging investigation moving forward and denied Trump the delay he wanted. The same day also underscored how many of Trump’s allies were still getting dragged by the long tail of the 2020 election fight, with more pressure and more public scrutiny hanging over his orbit.
May 26 was not a branding exercise in resilience. It was another one of those days when Trump-world looked less like a political machine and more like a legal department that keeps discovering the wrong box got checked months ago.
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A New York appellate court on May 26, 2022, affirmed an order requiring Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump to comply with subpoenas for sworn testimony and documents in the attorney general’s civil fraud investigation.