A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on October 26, 2023.
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The through-line is ugly for Trump: every time he treats a courtroom like a rally stage, he creates a new legal problem and a new paper trail. The penalties were modest in dollar terms, but the message from both judges was not subtle—keep testing the system and the system will keep answering back.
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Special counsel prosecutors asked a federal judge to restore a gag order on Trump after his social media attack on Mark Meadows, arguing it looked like an attempt to intimidate a foreseeable witness in the election case.
Judge Arthur Engoron stood by a $10,000 gag-order fine on Oct. 26, 2023, a day after he imposed it over Donald Trump’s comment outside the New York civil fraud trial courtroom.