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Trump Pleads Not Guilty in Georgia and Seeks to Narrow the Case
Trump filed a not-guilty plea in Fulton County on Aug. 31, 2023, and his lawyers also asked to sever his case from some co-defendants in the election-interference prosecution.
Edition · August 31, 2023
The Daily Fuckup — August 31, 2023
1 verified report published on August 31, 2023.
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Closing take
The mask-and-hawk lawyers version of this story is that Trump avoided a public spectacle. The actual story is that he was still behaving like a defendant trying to escape the blast radius of a case built around his own effort to overturn an election.
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