A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 16, 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.
The through-line here is simple: Trump-world kept trying to talk like a victim while the paper trail kept talking like a defendant. By December 16, the mess was not hypothetical, political, or rhetorical. It was documentary, criminal, and expensive.
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Ten days after a New York jury convicted two Trump Organization entities, the case was headed toward sentencing, where a judge could still impose a fine of up to $1.6 million. As of Dec. 16, 2022, no sentence had been handed down.