Trump’s Georgia mess keeps metastasizing

Edition · September 11, 2023

Trump’s Georgia mess keeps metastasizing

On September 11, 2023, the Trump legal machine was still stuck in the mud of Fulton County, with fresh procedural pain and an increasingly ugly political backdrop hanging over his 2020 election subversion case.

The day’s Trump-world fallout was less about one dramatic new explosion than a pileup of self-inflicted legal and political trouble. The Georgia election case kept generating bad optics and concrete defense headaches, while the broader post-indictment world around Trump continued to harden against him. For a backfill edition on September 11, 2023, the strongest publishable story is the ongoing consequence of Trump’s attempt to reverse the 2020 result in Georgia and the tightening procedural vise around it. The evidence for that day is thinner than on a courtroom heavy day, so confidence is a bit lower than usual, but the underlying screwup is very real.

Closing take

If this date had a single defining Trump-world story, it was that the 2020-election sabotage case was no longer theoretical politics. It was becoming a scheduling, legal, and reputational trap with real consequences, and there was no clean way out.

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5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.

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Trump’s Georgia Case Had Already Entered the Pretrial Grind by Sept. 11

Georgia pressure Confidence 5/5

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

By Sept. 11, 2023, Donald Trump’s Georgia election-interference case was already past indictment and into pretrial litigation, with dismissal fights beginning and broader scheduling disputes still to come in the days after. The first motions aimed at knocking out the charges were being filed as the defense started pushing on the shape and pace of the case. ([fultonclerk.org](https://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/2108/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT?utm_source=openai))

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