Edition · September 26, 2023

The Daily Fuckup — September 26, 2023

1 verified report published on September 26, 2023.

This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.

Closing take

For a backfill edition, this is the right kind of ugly: one dominant legal setback with real consequences, plus the broader sense that Trump’s world was already living in the penalty box. The fraud case ruling was the day’s heavyweight screwup, and everything else was just atmosphere around it.

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Judge hands Trump a brutal fraud-case loss

★★★★★Fuckup rating 5/5 Five-alarm fuckup

A New York judge granted the attorney general partial summary judgment in the civil fraud case, finding the defendants had repeatedly submitted fraudulent financial documents to get business advantages they otherwise would not have received.

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