A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on April 29, 2023.
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Trump’s talent has always been converting one bad week into a longer one. On April 29, 2023, the pattern was already plain: sue the problem, feed the problem, then act surprised when the problem shows up in a deposition, a filing, or a headline. The legal bills were piling up, the credibility was draining, and the campaign-style bluster was doing exactly zero to fix either.
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Trump’s new $500 million lawsuit against Michael Cohen immediately drew a motion-to-dismiss fight and looked less like a serious damages case than a revenge filing against a witness who keeps talking. The timing mattered: Cohen was a key witness in Trump-related matters, and the suit’s legal theory gave critics an easy opening to call it intimidation dressed up as litigation.