A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on April 4, 2024.
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The day’s throughline was plain enough. Trump kept finding ways to slow the machinery, but the machinery kept grinding. That is not the same thing as a win, and on April 4 the gap between the two was looking awfully expensive.
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A federal judge on April 4 denied Donald Trump’s request to toss the classified-documents indictment on Presidential Records Act grounds, leaving other defense motions unresolved.
On April 4, the federal election-interference case was still on hold while Trump’s immunity appeal remained unresolved. The March 4 trial date had already been vacated earlier, and no new date had replaced it.