Edition · September 1, 2023

The Daily Fuckup — September 1, 2023

1 verified report published on September 1, 2023.

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Closing take

The story of Sept. 1 was not invention, but persistence. Trump’s team kept trying to turn an indictment into just another political talking point, while the court system kept turning it back into a legal problem with names, dates, filings, and consequences. That is the kind of screwup that compounds: not one flashy blunder, but a steady drip of accountability Trump never seems able to outrun.

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Georgia Keeps Turning Trump’s Election Lies Into Court Business

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

Rudy Giuliani and other Trump allies entered not-guilty pleas in the Georgia election-subversion case on Sept. 1, keeping the indictment front and center and reminding everyone that the legal clock keeps ticking. The day was another public demonstration that Trump’s 2020-election scheme is not fading into history; it is becoming a continuing courtroom problem with real procedural momentum.

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