A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on September 13, 2022.
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The through line for the day was simple: Trump kept trying to win the messaging war while the legal war stayed alive. That is rarely a great bargain, and in this case it left him with more attention, more scrutiny, and no real end to the story.
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By Sept. 13, 2022, Trump had won a temporary special-master order, the Justice Department had appealed, and prosecutors said they would accept one of his proposed candidates. The procedural fight buys time, but it also keeps the seized-records dispute front and center.