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Filed too late
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
A Manhattan judge told Donald Trump’s legal team it had missed a pretrial filing deadline in the hush-money case, forcing the court to police the calendar more aggressively. The same day, prosecutors were dealing with a fresh batch of documents that added to the defense’s complaints about late-stage discovery. It was not the kind of procedural discipline that suggests a team in control of the situation.
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Paper avalanche
Confidence 3/5
★★☆☆☆Fuckup rating 2/5
Noticeable stumble
Trump’s defense also had to contend with a new round of evidence production in the Manhattan case, including a batch of tens of thousands of pages that reignited complaints about late disclosures. The defense wanted room to argue that the process was unfair; prosecutors said much of the material was duplicative or irrelevant. Either way, the case kept moving, and Trump’s team kept looking like it was digging out from under its own paper avalanche.
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