Edition · October 28, 2022

The Daily Fuckup — October 28, 2022

2 verified reports published on October 28, 2022.

This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.

Closing take

This was not a day for one giant Trump implosion. It was a day for the kind of bureaucratic and legal seepage that slowly ruins a political machine: late filings, bad process, and the ever-present suspicion that the people around Trump think rules are for other people. That’s not flashy, but it adds up fast.

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The Mar-a-Lago records fight stayed in the courtroom

★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5 Five-alarm fuckup

By Oct. 28, 2022, the Mar-a-Lago records dispute was still centered on the special-master fight, with the government pressing to keep its review of seized materials moving after the Supreme Court declined to intervene earlier that month.

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