A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on May 28, 2024.
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The underlying pattern was the same in both stories: Trump’s own conduct kept feeding the cases against him, and his favorite response was still to yell louder. That strategy can work in politics. It is much less helpful when judges are making the calendar and juries are making the facts.
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After closing arguments on May 28, the Manhattan case moved into jury deliberations, putting Trump one step away from a historic verdict in the criminal case tied to the 2016 election.
Judge Aileen Cannon denied prosecutors’ request to bar Donald Trump from making public statements about law enforcement in the classified-documents case. The order was denied without prejudice, leaving prosecutors free to try again.