A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on September 2, 2023.
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By September 1, the Trump operation was already living the 2023 campaign’s central contradiction: it wanted the race to be about Biden, but the calendar kept making it about indictments, court filings, and the people who built Trump’s old political machine now standing in line to say not guilty.
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Donald Trump filed a written not-guilty waiver on Aug. 31, 2023 in the Fulton County election-interference case and asked the court to sever his case from some co-defendants. The filing did not decide the severance request or change the charges against him.
Rudy Giuliani filed a written not-guilty plea and waived his Sept. 6 arraignment in the Fulton County election-interference case on Sept. 1, 2023.