A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on October 13, 2023.
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The throughline on this date was simple: Trump’s habit of turning legal danger into performative outrage was running into judges who were not impressed. The result was not just another bad-news cycle, but another reminder that the 2024 campaign was being dragged around by 2020’s unfinished business.
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A Colorado judge refused to toss a lawsuit seeking to bar Trump from the state ballot under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause, forcing his team to defend the merits instead of hiding behind a procedural escape hatch.