Trump’s January 27th Hangover

Edition · January 27, 2024

Trump’s January 27th Hangover

A backfill edition for January 27, 2024, centered on the newest legal and political blows landing on Trump-world that day.

On January 27, 2024, Trump-world was still getting hit by the aftershocks of the ballot-disqualification fight, the 2020-election fallout, and the continuing legal mess that kept turning every campaign victory lap into a liability parade. The day’s strongest material shows a movement that was simultaneously trying to normalize Trump’s return and relitigate the insurrection past that keeps dragging him under.

Closing take

The common thread on January 27 was not discipline but residue: legal exposure, political grievance, and the inability to make the old scandals stay old. Trump could claim momentum, but the record from that day still reads like a campaign constantly tripping over its own history.

Ranked by how bad the fuckup was

5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.

Story

Trump’s ballot fight was already in the Supreme Court by late January

A state ballot dispute had already turned into a Supreme Court case by the date of the story. Confidence 5/5

★★☆☆☆Fuckup rating 2/5 Noticeable stumble

By January 27, 2024, the Trump ballot-eligibility fight had moved from state rulings to the U.S. Supreme Court. Colorado’s top court ruled on December 19, 2023, that Trump was disqualified under Section 3 and should be excluded from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot, Maine’s secretary of state removed him from that state’s ballot on December 28, and the Supreme Court granted review on January 5, 2024, setting argument for February 8.

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