Edition · August 7, 2023

The Daily Fuckup — August 7, 2023

1 verified report published on August 7, 2023.

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Closing take

The through-line on August 7 was simple: Trump’s entire project kept colliding with the calendar, the courts, and the record. The message discipline may have been loud, but the legal bill kept getting louder.

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Trump’s January 6 case keeps swallowing the campaign

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The political damage from Trump’s federal election-interference indictment kept spreading on August 7 as the campaign’s central message stayed trapped inside a legal firestorm it did not create and cannot escape.

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