A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on September 22, 2023.
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The through-line here is familiar by now: the facts keep getting uglier, the explanations keep getting slipperier, and the judges keep refusing to play along. On a day like this, Trump-world did what it always does when cornered — it argued with reality, then acted offended that reality kept a record.
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A New York judge pressed lawyers for Donald Trump and his company at a Sept. 22, 2023 hearing before the civil fraud trial, sharpening the stakes in a case set to go to a bench trial on Oct. 2.
Three Georgia Republicans accused in the election case said their 2020 Trump elector slate was a lawful contingent backup and asked to move their cases to federal court.