The Daily Fuckup — April 20, 2023

Edition · April 20, 2023

The Daily Fuckup — April 20, 2023

1 verified report published on April 20, 2023.

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Closing take

If Trump’s team wanted April 20 to be about campaign momentum, the courts had other plans. The day’s story was not just that he faced another hearing, but that the machinery around him kept stripping away his preferred excuses and leaving the same brutal frame: accountability on one side, grievance on the other.

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Judge Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Sell a Rape-Trial Logistics Excuse

Courtroom spin fail Confidence 5/5

★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5 Major mess

A federal judge refused to let Donald Trump’s legal team tell jurors that he wanted to appear at the E. Jean Carroll trial but might skip it to avoid burdening New York City. That undercut a familiar Trump-world tactic: turn a legal obligation into a sympathy plea and blame the infrastructure for the defendant’s own mess. It also signaled that the court was not interested in letting him rebrand attendance as an act of civic sacrifice.

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