A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on April 25, 2023.
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The through-line here is simple: Trump keeps insisting these cases are politically motivated, but his own words keep giving judges and opponents more ammunition. On April 25, the legal calendar, the campaign calendar, and the humiliation calendar all lined up at once. That is not a good look, even by Trump standards.
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Jury selection began in E. Jean Carroll’s civil case against Donald Trump, and the court was already operating as if his public attacks had created a real risk to jurors. That is a nasty backdrop for a former president who wants to campaign as a victim of the system while the system is busy protecting itself from him.
A federal judge said Trump’s public comments and the trial’s intense coverage created a risk of harassment, outside pressure and retaliation, so jurors will be shielded from public identification.
A federal judge had already rejected Trump’s effort to delay the Carroll trial, and on April 25 the case moved forward anyway. That matters because it shows how little control Trump had over a legal schedule that was now colliding with his political schedule.