A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 8, 2023.
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This was one of those days when the Trump operation’s greatest enemy was its own record. The more its lawyers argued, the more the underlying facts looked like a mess of false claims, political desperation, and institutional damage. In other words: standard Trump-world process, just with better documentation.
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A Dec. 7, 2023 federal order in the Ruby Freeman-Wandrea Moss defamation case laid out how Giuliani pressed ahead with objections in a damages trial after defaulting on liability. The ruling matters because it shows the court had already rejected much of the defense posture before the Dec. 11 trial over compensation began.