A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on January 24, 2023.
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The day’s common thread was simple: Trump kept finding ways to turn separate legal problems into one broader story about recklessness, delay, and self-inflicted damage. Georgia was moving toward a charging decision. New York was watching him run out of runway. Neither of those is the kind of momentum a former president wants on the same calendar date.
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Donald Trump and New York Attorney General Letitia James agreed on Jan. 24, 2023, to end Trump’s appeal of an earlier federal court dismissal. The move came days after Trump separately withdrew another lawsuit against James in Florida, but it did not change James’s fraud case.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis told a judge that charging decisions in the Trump election-interference investigation were imminent during a hearing over whether to release the special grand jury report.