A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on November 25, 2024.
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By the end of the day, Trump had not been punished by the cases that threatened him most; he had outrun them. That may be his preferred definition of winning, but it is also a measure of how thoroughly the justice system got jammed up around him.
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The special counsel moved to dismiss the federal election-interference and classified-documents cases after Trump’s reelection made continued prosecution impossible under Justice Department policy. It was a giant legal escape hatch for Trump, but also a vivid reminder that his strategy of delay, manpower, and political survival had paid off in the ugliest possible way.