A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on December 6, 2017.
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Trump spent the day trying to look decisive. What he mostly managed was to remind everyone that when this White House makes a move, the blowback is rarely subtle and almost never confined to one front.
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The president’s formal recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital immediately drew warnings about violence, condemnation from Palestinian and regional leaders, and claims that the United States had quit its role as a neutral broker.
Michael Flynn’s guilty plea from the prior week kept generating fresh questions on December 6, as Trump allies tried to contain a scandal that had moved from rumor to criminal court.