A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 20, 2024.
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Trump did what Trump always does when his own conduct creates a political firestorm: he turned it into a bigger one. On Jan. 20, 2024, the underlying issue was no longer whether the problem existed — it was how far the blast radius would spread.
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By Jan. 20, 2024, the Colorado ballot case was already set for the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Maine case was still stuck in procedure before the Maine Law Court.