A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 7, 2025.
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For all the grandstanding about power and immunity, the most important Trump story on January 7 was a judge saying, in effect, nice try. The transition was supposed to be about inevitability; instead, it was about lawyers sprinting from one losing argument to the next. That’s not just a legal headache. It is the kind of self-inflicted mess that turns a victory lap into an intake form.
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A New York appeals judge rejected Donald Trump’s emergency bid to stop his Friday sentencing in the hush-money case, leaving the proceeding on the calendar and humiliating a legal strategy built around delay. The ruling came after a state trial judge had already turned him down, making the president-elect’s immunity argument look less like a serious doctrine than a hail-mary to the courthouse door.