A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on July 8, 2022.
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The day’s headline was not a knockout blow, but it was another sharp jab in a long-running case that keeps saying the same thing in different fonts: Trump’s best defense is still to run out the clock. The legal system, annoyingly for him, kept refusing to play along.
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A federal appeals court narrowed the House’s subpoena fight over Donald Trump’s finances but upheld major parts of the demand, leaving his accounting records and related documents in play. It was a legal loss for Trump even if the court trimmed the scope of what Congress can see.