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Trump’s election-case headache kept getting worse
The special counsel’s election-interference case was still sitting there on August 24 like a brick through the windshield, and Trump’s allies had no clean answer for it. The legal strategy remained to slow-walk, reframe, and hope for procedural mercy, but the case kept anchoring his campaign in questions about January 6, official acts, and whether he can avoid consequences for the same conduct that got ordinary defendants cooked years ago.