A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on September 29, 2022.
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The day’s central fact was not that Trump got cleared. It was that he kept turning a document-stash scandal into a time-sucking court fight, and the court kept obliging. That may slow the investigation, but it also keeps the core question front and center: why was a former president hanging on to government records that the government says should never have been there in the first place?
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Judge Aileen Cannon extended Special Master Raymond Dearie’s deadline to Dec. 16 and declined, for now, to require Trump’s team to file an immediate separate attestation about the FBI’s inventory of seized records.