A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
A backfill edition for June 29, 2024, built around the legal and political messes Trump was trying to outrun while the post-conviction machinery kept grinding.
On June 29, 2024, the Trump universe was still living inside the fallout from the hush-money conviction, with fresh court filings and legal maneuvering aimed at undoing or delaying the damage. The day’s biggest screwup was less a single tweet than a larger pattern: Trump kept betting that process, immunity, and delay would erase consequences that were already sticking to his campaign and his brand. This edition centers on the strongest documented Trump-world setbacks materially in play that day, with the legal fight over the conviction and the broader election-interference mess taking center stage.
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 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.
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.