A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on October 15, 2023.
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The 2024 campaign was already teaching the same lesson it always does with Trump: if he can turn a neutral setting into a grievance machine, he will. On October 15, that meant foreign-policy loose talk that aged badly and a civil trial that would not stay confined to the courthouse. It was a bad day for discipline, and a worse one for anyone hoping the next phase of the campaign would be less clown car, more presidency.
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Donald Trump’s October 11 remarks on Israel and Hezbollah were still drawing criticism on October 15, after he said Israel had been “let down,” called Hezbollah “very smart,” and said Israeli leaders needed to “step up their game.”
Judge Arthur Engoron’s limited gag order in Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud case was already in place on Oct. 15, 2023, after Trump posted about the judge’s principal law clerk on Oct. 3.