A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on July 24, 2017.
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The big pattern on July 24 was simple: Trump allies were spending more time answering for their own messes than governing. Russia explanations got messier, health care got shakier, and the White House kept acting like forceful spin could substitute for a plan.
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Jared Kushner issued a written account of his contacts with Russians and then defended it after meeting with Senate investigators, but the statement only deepened scrutiny of how much he had known and when he had known it.
The president staged another push to pressure Senate Republicans on health care, but the effort only underscored how close his party was to blowing the repeal drive again.