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Trump’s Classified-Documents Delay Bid Meets DOJ Pushback
The Justice Department opposed Donald Trump’s request to push the classified-documents trial past the election, arguing there was no basis for an open-ended delay.
Edition · July 25, 2023
Trump World’s July 25, 2023 Backfill Edition
A court day, a legal headache, and a fresh reminder that the Trump orbit’s favorite hobby is turning bad facts into worse ones.
On July 25, 2023, the Trump universe was having one of those days where the paper trail did not cooperate. The biggest screwups of the day centered on the classified-documents case, where the government was pushing back hard on Trump’s effort to delay trial, and on a long-running New York fraud fight that kept generating more embarrassing records and judicial friction. This backfill edition focuses on the best-documented Trump-world setbacks that landed or sharpened on that exact calendar day.
Closing take
The throughline is familiar: delay, deny, complain, repeat — and hope the calendar or the courts do the rest. On July 25, 2023, that strategy looked less like legal genius than a high-priced improv act with the stage lights turned on.
Ranked by how bad the fuckup was
5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.
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Trump’s New York Fraud Judge Stays Put, Denying a Favorite Escape Route
In the New York civil-fraud fight, Donald Trump’s side failed to pry the judge off the case, preserving a forum that had already become deeply uncomfortable for him.