Edition · June 12, 2023
The Daily Fuckup — June 12, 2023
1 verified report published on June 12, 2023.
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Closing take
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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Story
Miami court spectacle
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
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.
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