A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on June 14, 2017.
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This was not a day of one isolated blunder. It was another reminder that the Comey firing was not a clean break but a rolling liability, and every new document or hearing only made the original move look more reckless.
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James Comey’s testimony made explicit what Trump world had been hoping to keep fuzzy: the special counsel’s work was going to include whether the president tried to obstruct justice. That does not prove guilt on its own, but it turns the firing of Comey from a bad optics story into a live legal threat.