A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on September 25, 2023.
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If you wanted a clean snapshot of Trump-world on September 25, 2023, the picture was ugly: legal trouble nearing a blowout, messaging that kept antagonizing the very voters he needed, and a campaign that looked permanently trapped between damage control and self-inflicted damage. The next day would only make the fraud problem louder, but the fuse was already burning here.
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On Sept. 25, 2023, Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case was still awaiting a ruling on the state’s partial summary-judgment request. Justice Arthur Engoron issued that order on Sept. 26, and the bench trial on the remaining claims began Oct. 2, 2023.
The abortion backlash that Trump triggered earlier in the week was still eating at him on September 25. What he thought would be a settled culture-war issue had instead become a fresh reminder that he could still drive away conservative allies with one poorly thought-out line. The damage was political, not theoretical.