A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A bad day for the former president’s legal strategy: one case got tossed, another probe deepened, and the Georgia fallout kept spreading.
December 12, 2022 delivered a tidy little bundle of Trump-world pain: a federal judge formally threw out his Mar-a-Lago lawsuit, while special counsel Jack Smith’s election probe moved ahead with a subpoena to Georgia’s top election official. It was less a single catastrophe than a reminder that the post-presidency mess was widening on multiple fronts at once.
The through line here is simple: Trump’s attempts to outrun accountability kept colliding with judges, prosecutors, and the public record. On December 12, 2022, that collision looked especially expensive.
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A federal judge on Dec. 12, 2022, dismissed Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago lawsuit for lack of jurisdiction, following an earlier appellate ruling that ended the special-master review of seized records.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s team subpoenaed Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger for records tied to Donald Trump’s 2020-election effort. The subpoena was dated December 9, 2022 and received by Raffensperger’s office on December 12, when the story was reported.