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Trump asks Supreme Court to block hush-money sentencing
Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to pause Friday’s sentencing in his New York hush-money case after lower courts declined to delay it.
Edition · January 8, 2025
The Daily Fuckup — January 8, 2025
2 verified reports published on January 8, 2025.
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Closing take
The through line here is simple: Trump keeps reaching for maximalist power while his legal exposure keeps reminding everyone that he is, in fact, still subject to courts, deadlines, and basic adult consequences. January 8 offered both problems in the same news cycle, which is very on brand and deeply useful to his opponents.
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Trump’s Greenland-And-Panama Fantasy Keeps Sounding Like an Imperial Threat
Trump’s refusal to rule out military or economic coercion against Greenland and the Panama Canal kept drawing blowback on January 8, turning a Mar-a-Lago riff into a diplomatic headache. What was sold as swagger is landing closer to an international warning label: the president-elect is casually talking like territorial conquest is a bargaining chip.