A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on July 2, 2024.
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The theme of the day was delay. Trump did not create the legal mess on July 2, but he was the beneficiary of it, and that is its own kind of screwup for everyone else in the system: more justice deferred, more election-year cynicism, more proof that Trump’s most reliable strategy is to keep surviving long enough for the calendar to do the dirty work.
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A New York judge adjourned Donald Trump’s hush-money sentencing from July 11 to Sept. 18, 2024, if sentencing is still necessary, after the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling triggered new briefing. Prosecutors did not oppose the adjournment and asked for time to respond.