A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on November 26, 2024.
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The post-election Trump story on November 26 was less about new scandals than about the ugly institutional reality that followed him into the transition. Prosecutors, judges, and his own lawyers were all now trying to manage the collision between a criminal record, a presidential return, and the rulebook nobody wrote for this exact mess.
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The special counsel took steps to dismiss the federal election-interference and classified-documents cases, a dramatic legal retreat driven by Trump’s return to power and the Justice Department’s rule against prosecuting a sitting president. The move did not clear Trump; it underlined how far his immunity strategy had already bent the system around him.
Trump’s Nov. 26 sentencing in the New York hush-money case had already been indefinitely postponed on Nov. 22, leaving his conviction intact but the next step unresolved.