A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on June 4, 2024.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
The through-line here is simple: Trump did not get to move on, because the verdict had already moved on him. On June 4, the post-conviction cleanup only made the original screwup look larger, more expensive, and harder to spin away.
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Donald Trump’s lawyers asked on June 4, 2024, to lift the hush-money trial gag order after his conviction. The defense said the restrictions should not stay in place through sentencing, while prosecutors argued the order should remain until then because it was put in place to protect the trial and court participants.