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The net effect is ugly for Trump even when the docket bends in his favor: every delay buys him time, but every delay also reminds voters that the guy asking for a second term is still living inside a stack of criminal cases and tabloid-grade embarrassment. The comeback machine keeps running; it just keeps running over itself.
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A federal judge in Florida vacated the May 20 trial date in Donald Trump’s classified-documents case and said it will be reset by separate order after pending pretrial matters are resolved.
Stormy Daniels testified on May 7, 2024, in Donald Trump’s Manhattan hush-money trial about an alleged 2006 sexual encounter and the $130,000 payment prosecutors say was part of the effort to conceal it.