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2 verified reports published on November 15, 2023.
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The pattern was familiar by mid-November 2023: Trump’s team kept trying to turn procedural chaos into a substantive advantage, and the chaos kept reflecting back on them instead. In Georgia, a leak exposed how brittle the case’s information controls were. In New York, the mistrial gambit looked less like a rescue plan than a paper shield against a judge who had already shown he was willing to punish misconduct. Either way, November 15 was another day when Trump-world’s best argument was that the referee was unfair — which is usually what people say when the scoreboard is not going their way.
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A leak of witness proffer videos in the Fulton County election-interference case triggered an emergency hearing and forced the judge toward a protective order. The episode exposed how badly defense-side disclosure had gone sideways and handed prosecutors a fresh reason to tighten the spigot on evidence.
Trump’s lawyers asked for a mistrial in the New York civil fraud case, arguing the judge was biased and had tainted the proceedings. The move underscored how shaky the defense’s position had become after earlier losses and public discipline from the court.