A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 3, 2025.
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For Trump, this was the kind of day that turns “it’ll all go away” into a court date. The legal consequence may have been limited, but the symbolic damage was real: the president-elect remained a convicted felon walking toward the Oval Office.
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A New York judge denied Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss the indictment and vacate the jury verdict, leaving his Jan. 10 sentencing on the calendar and signaling no jail time.