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Trial delay fight
Confidence 5/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
New York prosecutors told the court that Trump’s latest bid to slow the hush-money case was built on a “red herring,” with most of the newly disclosed material described as duplicative or immaterial. The state wants the April 15 trial date to hold, and the judge has already scheduled a hearing on who is at fault for the disclosure mess. The immediate political damage is not that Trump lost a motion on the merits; it is that his side is now trying to turn a procedural dust-up into a reset button. That is not exactly the pose of a campaign rolling confidently into the fall.
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Campaign excuse fails
Confidence 4/5
★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5
Serious fuckup
In the civil fraud case, New York’s attorney general argued that Trump should not be allowed to use the 2024 presidential campaign as a reason to keep slowing the litigation. The state says it has already turned over an enormous record and that the defendants are the ones lagging on depositions and discovery. This is a meaningful setback because it frames Trump’s political calendar as an excuse, not a shield. It also keeps the focus on the underlying fraud allegations rather than on his favorite defensive tactic: make the process the scandal.
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