A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on September 9, 2022.
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The common thread in Trump world on September 9 was simple: every supposed fix created a new problem. The legal system was still trying to contain the damage from the documents mess, and Trump’s side was still fighting over the terms of containment instead of escaping the underlying facts. That is not exoneration. That is a bigger box with a nicer label.
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Trump’s Mar-a-Lago documents fight kept getting worse on September 9 as his lawyers and the Justice Department filed competing proposals over the special master review. The papers showed they still disagreed on who should do the job, what the special master could see, and how fast the review should move, which is a fancy way of saying the court’s partial fix was already becoming a fresh battlefield.