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Trump deposition puts New York fraud allegations back in view
Trump’s April 13, 2023 deposition in New York’s civil fraud case put his financial statements and his defense of them back at center stage.
Edition · April 14, 2023
The Daily Fuckup — April 14, 2023
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Closing take
This was one of those Trump days where the headline wasn’t a breakthrough so much as a reminder: the mess is the message. The courts were still setting the terms, the facts were still inconvenient, and the defenses were still doing that thing where they sound less like rebuttals than panic in a blazer.
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The Manhattan indictment keeps Trump in the dock, not in command
A week after the Manhattan indictment, April 13 still found Trump-world trying to spin a criminal case that had already shattered the normal presidential-candidate script.
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Trump’s campaign starts to look like a legal support group
The deeper problem on April 13 was structural: Trump’s political operation was increasingly shaped by lawsuits, depositions, and criminal exposure instead of actual campaign momentum.