A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on July 13, 2023.
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By mid-July 2023, the Trump operation was already living in a two-track reality: one track for the campaign, and one for the legal bunker. On this date, the second track was clearly winning.
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On July 13, 2023, prosecutors were still scrutinizing Mar-a-Lago security footage as part of the classified-documents case. At that point, the public record showed the video was evidence under review; the allegation that anyone sought to delete it did not become public until the July 27 superseding indictment.