A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on July 9, 2023.
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This was not one of those days when Trump created a brand-new catastrophe out of whole cloth. It was worse in a quieter way: the machinery of accountability kept grinding, the bill kept getting longer, and the White House-in-waiting crowd kept pretending the smoke was just ambiance.
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A DOJ filing released July 7, 2023 said Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office and related DOJ components spent more than $9.2 million between Nov. 18, 2022 and March 31, 2023. The document is a partial-period accounting, not a full tally of the investigations.