A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 14, 2023.
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For Trump, the bigger political problem is not just losing cases but looking unserious while they pile up. The fraud trial kept producing the kind of record that makes it hard to argue this was all just partisan theater.
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A New York appellate court rejected Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a limited gag order in his civil fraud case, saying he used the wrong procedural path. The order stayed in effect and continued to bar statements about court staff, including the judge’s law clerk.