A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on October 5, 2022.
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For Trump, the day’s headline was not victory but acceleration: the machinery of the courts moved faster, not slower, toward the documents he wanted kept in limbo. That is rarely a good sign when the underlying fight is over classified records pulled from your home.
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The 11th Circuit agreed to expedite the Justice Department’s appeal in the special master dispute, a procedural win for prosecutors and a setback for Trump’s effort to slow the case down.