A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on May 24, 2024.
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The day before the holiday weekend didn’t deliver a single giant Trump disaster, but it did show the machine doing what it always does under pressure: confuse, self-mythologize, and squeeze donors while the jury clock keeps ticking. That can still work politically for him. It also keeps adding receipts for everyone else.
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The Manhattan case was on a scheduled break for a juror’s travel conflict and the Memorial Day weekend on May 24, 2024. Closing arguments were still ahead when the trial resumed on May 28, followed by jury deliberations.
Trump’s political operation was still using the hush-money case as a fundraising engine, converting legal peril into donor bait. That can be a short-term money maker, but it also advertises just how dependent the campaign had become on grievance as a business model.
The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on May 22, 2024, after two vials of blood addressed to Donald Trump were discovered. No one was injured, and investigators said the package was non-hazardous.