A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on February 26, 2024.
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The bigger picture here is simple: Trump kept telling voters he was the victim of a political circus, but on February 26 the circus was his own making. The courts were not done with him, the money problem was not going away, and the conduct problem was now a formal part of the record. That is not a strong place to be when you are trying to sell yourself as a law-and-order savior.
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Trump’s lawyers filed notices of appeal on Feb. 26, 2024, challenging the Feb. 23 civil fraud judgment in New York. The filing begins appellate review, but it does not erase the judgment or automatically stop collection.
Manhattan prosecutors asked Judge Juan Merchan to restrict Donald Trump’s public comments in the hush-money case and separately sought permission to play the Access Hollywood tape at trial.