A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
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That was the basic Trump story at year’s end: even when the courts handed him procedural breathing room, he still found ways to hand his opponents a fresh set of clips, quotes, and attack lines. Not exactly a winning message machine. Below are the strongest screwups that landed or crystallized on December 23, 2023.
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On Dec. 22, 2023, the Supreme Court denied Donald Trump’s request for certiorari before judgment, leaving his immunity appeal pending in the D.C. Circuit. The appeals court had already set oral argument for Jan. 9, 2024.
Trump’s immigration rhetoric drew fresh criticism in late December 2023 after he repeated dehumanizing language about migrants and defended it on the trail.
Trump’s mid-December Iowa immigration message kept leaning on “poisoning the blood” and mass-deportation rhetoric, which energized supporters and handed opponents a ready-made line of attack.