A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 11, 2023.
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The day’s story was not that Trump found a new argument. It was that he kept running into the same wall: courts, filings, and witnesses are harder to bully than rally crowds. On December 11, the wall won.
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Donald Trump said on Dec. 10, 2023 that he would not testify again in his New York civil fraud trial on Dec. 11, after earlier saying he would return to the witness stand. The trial continued, with testimony ending Dec. 13 and closing arguments later set for Jan. 11, 2024.