A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 11, 2024.
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For one day, at least, Trump got the thing he seems to crave most: attention. The trouble is that the attention came wrapped around a very public reminder that his instinct under pressure is still to attack the referee, insult the process, and make every bad outcome look more self-inflicted.
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Donald Trump used part of the January 11, 2024 closing-arguments session in New York’s civil fraud case to attack the judge and the attorney general before Justice Arthur Engoron cut him off. It was not a formal closing argument, but it did give the court one more example of how Trump handles restraint: badly.