A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on June 12, 2023.
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For Trump, the basic pattern was becoming the story: every attempt to frame these cases as persecution kept running into the fact of the indictment, the documents, and the increasingly unflattering paper trail. June 12 did not create that problem, but it put it on display in a way nobody in his orbit could spin away cleanly.
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Trump arrived in Miami on June 12, 2023, ahead of his June 13 arraignment in the classified-documents case, as officials tightened courthouse security and the case’s national-security allegations stayed front and center.