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Edition · November 1, 2023
The Daily Fuckup — November 1, 2023
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Closing take
By Halloween, the joke was on Trumpworld: every attempt to turn the cases into pure persecution theater just produced more paper, more restrictions, and more reminders that the facts are stubborn things. The campaign could scream “witch hunt” all it wanted; the docket kept reading like a business-school ethics failure with a felony appendix.
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