A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
Trump’s legal calendar keeps producing the same grim punchline: every escape hatch is closing, and the courts are starting to treat delay as a feature, not a right.
On September 28, 2023, Trump-world took two more legal body blows in the same day. In New York, an appeals court refused to delay the civil fraud trial after a judge had already found Trump and his company committed years of fraud. In Georgia, Trump’s lawyers walked away from a bid to move the election interference case into federal court, abandoning a route that looked increasingly doomed after a judge rejected a similar strategy from Mark Meadows.
The pattern was hard to miss: Trump’s team kept reaching for procedural exits, and the courts kept slamming the doors. That is not just bad luck. It is what happens when the emergency braking system becomes the whole legal strategy.
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A New York appellate panel denied Donald Trump’s request to delay the civil fraud trial on Sept. 28, 2023, leaving the case set to begin Oct. 2 after a prior ruling found Trump and his company liable for fraud on summary judgment.
Trump’s lawyers said he would not pursue moving the Georgia election case to federal court, abandoning a tactic that had looked increasingly shaky after a similar bid by Mark Meadows was rejected. The retreat left Trump stuck in Fulton County court and made the defense look more like a scramble than a strategy.