A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A New York judge tossed one Trump lawsuit and made him pay up; elsewhere, another Trump legal move kept meeting the same wall: consequences.
May 3, 2023 was another ugly reminder that Donald Trump’s favorite litigation strategy was starting to look less like a weapon and more like a self-inflicted tax. In New York, a judge rejected Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times and its reporters and ordered him to cover substantial legal costs. The same day, other Trump-world legal fights kept showing the same pattern: overreach, backlash, and judges who had run out of patience.
The through-line here is simple: Trump kept trying to turn the courts into a campaign prop, and the courts kept turning it into a bill.
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A New York judge tossed Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times and its reporters and ordered him to pay legal fees and costs, undercutting another of his favorite revenge filings.