Edition · June 29, 2024

The Daily Fuckup — June 29, 2024

2 verified reports published on June 29, 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.

Closing take

Trump’s favorite workaround remained the same: if the facts are bad, lawyer harder. On June 29, that strategy still looked less like a comeback plan than a very expensive confession that the original mess was real.

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Trump’s immunity push keeps the January 6 case in the frame

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

Trump’s Supreme Court immunity appeal was still pending on June 29, 2024, with the justices having heard arguments in April but not yet ruling. The fight kept the election-interference case at the center of the campaign and highlighted the question of how far presidential immunity can reach.

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Trump’s hush-money conviction sends his lawyers into another court maze

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

Trump’s legal team kept pushing to move the New York hush-money conviction into federal court and to wipe out the verdict by leaning on presidential immunity arguments. It was a reminder that the campaign’s main post-conviction strategy was not to win the public case, but to keep slamming procedural doors until one finally opens.

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