Edition · September 7, 2023

The Daily Fuckup — September 7, 2023

1 verified report published on September 7, 2023.

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Closing take

September 7 didn’t bring a single giant collapse. It brought something almost as bad for Trump: the slow, documented realization that the Georgia case was moving, the co-defendants were not all moving together, and the former president’s preferred tactics were buying headlines, not relief.

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Georgia case keeps fracturing Trump’s defense

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

A Fulton County judge’s rulings and the latest defense filings showed Trump’s election-interference case drifting into a more dangerous posture for him: faster-moving co-defendants, sharper scheduling pressure, and no sign the whole thing would stay neatly bundled around him. For Trump, the screwup is not just the indictment itself; it is the way his team kept losing control of the tempo while the court began making the case more concrete and more immediate.

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