A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on November 20, 2023.
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The common thread here is not mystery, it’s repetition. Trump keeps turning his own legal exposure into fresh legal exposure, and the courts keep responding with more limits, more scrutiny, and less patience.
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A retired Deutsche Bank risk officer testified that Trump’s financial statements were key to huge loans, reinforcing the case that the family business leaned on numbers a court has already treated as fraudulent.
A D.C. Circuit panel heard arguments on Nov. 20, 2023, over Donald Trump’s gag order in the federal election-interference case and appeared open to narrowing parts of it, but it did not rule that day.