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Trump Loses Bid to Halt New York Attorney General Probe
On May 27, 2022, a federal judge dismissed Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block New York Attorney General Letitia James’s investigation, clearing the way for it to continue.
Edition · May 27, 2022
The Daily Fuckup — May 27, 2022
2 verified reports published on May 27, 2022.
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Closing take
It was not a day with a single giant Trump-world explosion. But it was very much a day when the underlying pattern stayed ugly: the legal, financial, and political problems were not fading, and the people around Trump kept finding new ways to remind everyone why that machine always seems to be on fire.
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Truth Social’s SPAC Deal Was Drawing Fresh Scrutiny in May 2022
By May 27, 2022, the Truth Social merger with Digital World Acquisition Corp. was still alive, but it was already under pressure from a federal probe and repeated disclosure questions. The hard fact for that date is narrower than later headlines would suggest: the deal had been amended on May 11, and the broader SEC fraud finding came more than a year later.