A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on June 15, 2024.
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For a backfill edition, the strongest theme from June 14 is simple: Trump-world was still trying to turn accountability into a rallying cry, and the evidence suggested that the attempt was expensive, exhausting, and only partly working. The brand could still generate outrage. It could still generate money. What it could not do was generate innocence.
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After the May 30 guilty verdict, Trump kept leaning on outrage, claiming bias, and using the conviction as a rallying point for supporters and donors. The legal loss did not vanish; the campaign simply kept trying to convert it into fuel.
In the days after Donald Trump’s May 30 conviction, his campaign pointed to a rapid surge in donations and treated it as proof the base was still with him.
The Manhattan criminal case did not ease up on June 14. Court materials kept the post-verdict pressure on Trump alive, underscoring that the legal consequences were still active even as the campaign tried to pivot away from them.