A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on March 21, 2023.
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The biggest Trump screwup on March 21 was less about one courtroom move than about the pattern: he kept trying to dominate the narrative around investigations he could not control, and the result was usually more attention, not less. That’s the recurring disaster—Trump treats legal peril like a campaign asset, until it stops being an asset and starts becoming evidence.
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On March 21, 2023, Donald Trump and his advisers were preparing for the possibility of a Manhattan indictment in the hush-money investigation. No charge had been filed yet; the grand jury vote came nine days later, on March 30, with arraignment following on April 4.