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Christmas Eve is supposed to be for carols, not constitutional cosplay. But Trump’s corner kept turning every legal setback into a plea for more runway, and by this point the runway was getting very short.
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Trump’s classified-documents problem was still hanging over the holiday week, with the investigation and related litigation continuing to deepen the sense that the former president had no clean exit ramp. Even without a single explosive filing on December 24 itself, the day sat inside a broader sequence of setbacks showing that the documents fight was not fading away. The screwup was the original one, but the damage kept compounding.
Trump’s team filed a Christmas Eve appeal in the Jan. 6 criminal case, pressing the argument that presidential immunity should shield him from prosecution for official acts. The move did not decide the case, but it kept the fight over the scope of a former president’s protection squarely in front of the courts.