A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on November 29, 2017.
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Trump’s talent for turning one bad headline into two was on full display. On a day when he should have been trying to lower the temperature, he instead blasted it higher, then acted surprised that everyone noticed. For a presidency already under legal and ethical strain, that is not strategy. It is a recurring liability with the volume turned up.
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Trump retweeted three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos from Britain First, a far-right British group, setting off instant backlash in London and a new round of questions about whether the president is amplifying extremist propaganda for sport or for ideology. The White House tried to dodge the substance while British leaders called the move wrong and dangerous.
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea was still detonating through Trump world on November 29, as lawmakers and prosecutors treated the former national security adviser’s case as a serious escalation, not a closed book. Even before the full public reaction set in, the plea underscored how badly the administration’s Russia story was still unraveling.