A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 7, 2017.
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By this point, the Trump White House was discovering a basic governing truth it kept trying to ignore: if you light the fire yourself, you do not get to act surprised when the smoke alarms start screaming.
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The first Trump travel ban kept generating legal damage on February 7 as challengers piled into court and the administration’s rushed rollout looked less like immigration policy than a self-inflicted procedural wipeout.