A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 12, 2017.
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The day did not just close a race. It closed a chapter in which Trump’s team convinced itself that partisan loyalty could sand over almost any scandal. Alabama said otherwise. The damage was political, reputational, and self-inflicted, which is exactly the kind of screwup this edition is here to track.
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Moore’s loss in the Alabama Senate special election was the clearest proof yet that Trump’s intervention could not rescue a damaged candidate. The result handed Democrats an open Senate seat in a deep-red state and exposed how far the White House had overplayed its hand.