A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 30, 2023.
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The year ends the way it started for Trump: with lawyers insisting the rules don’t apply to him, and judges being asked to test that proposition. That is not a great look when your whole pitch is law-and-order cosplay.
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Special counsel Jack Smith asked the D.C. Circuit to reject Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for conduct tied to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The filing says the former president has no immunity from the criminal case over those alleged acts.