Edition · July 6, 2024

The Daily Fuckup — July 6, 2024

2 verified reports published on July 6, 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

The pattern was already obvious by July 6: Trump’s team was not just fighting cases, it was fighting the calendar, the facts, and the public record all at once. That usually works for a while in Trumpworld. It also usually ends the same way, with everyone pretending a mess is strategy.

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Trump Wins Immunity Relief, Then Immediately Gets a Bigger Problem: What’s Left of the Case Still Exists

★★★★☆Fuckup rating 4/5 Serious fuckup

The Supreme Court’s immunity ruling gave Trump a major procedural win, but it did not make the Jan. 6 case disappear. On July 6, the legal reality was settling in: prosecutors still had a path forward on private conduct, lower courts had to sort through the wreckage, and Trump’s camp was already trying to spin a partial shield into total exoneration.

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Bannon’s Prison Order Put Another Trump Ally on the Clock

★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5 Major mess

Steve Bannon was ordered to report to prison by July 1, and by July 6 the Trump orbit was still staring at the consequences of that contempt conviction. The episode underscored how Trump-world’s reflex to stonewall subpoenas and treat oversight as optional keeps producing very real legal consequences.

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