A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on October 6, 2023.
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The Trump world specialty remains the same: turn a bad week into a slightly less bad headline and call it a win. On October 6, 2023, that was about all they got.
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A New York appeals judge refused to stop Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial on Oct. 6, 2023, but did grant a limited stay blocking enforcement of the order that would cancel the Trump businesses’ certificates while the appeal moves ahead. The fraud finding itself stayed in place, and the trial kept going.
By Oct. 6, 2023, the New York fraud trial was already being shaped by a limited gag order Judge Arthur Engoron imposed three days earlier after Donald Trump attacked his principal law clerk online. The order was part of the case’s immediate fallout, not a long-running subplot, and it put Trump under a direct courtroom restraint as the trial continued.