A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A backfill edition for September 5, 2023, centered on the biggest Trump-world screwups that landed, escalated, or got materially reported that day in Eastern time.
September 5, 2023 was one of those Trump-world days where the legal calendar did most of the damage. The Georgia election case moved toward arraignment, the Fulton County machinery kept grinding, and the broader effort to relitigate 2020 kept generating fresh evidence that the whole enterprise was still collapsing under its own paper trail. The day also marked an important escalation in the wider post-2020 accountability fight, with new reporting and filings keeping Trump allies in the hot seat and the underlying story from going stale.
The common thread on September 5 was simple: Trump’s post-2020 machinery was still producing legal exposure, not vindication. That is the kind of daily grind that looks boring until you realize it is the bill coming due.
5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.
The Fulton County election case was set for arraignments on Sept. 6, 2023, after court filings laid out the schedule for Donald Trump and the other defendants. Trump was not required to appear in person if he waived arraignment.
A Colorado lawsuit filed on September 6, 2023, asked a state court to bar Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 Republican presidential primary ballot under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Mark Meadows and John Eastman were among the defendants who filed not-guilty pleas and waived arraignment in the Fulton County election-interference case on September 5, 2023, completing the set of 19 defendants who had done so.