A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on December 20, 2017.
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December 20 gave Trump another lesson he never seems eager to learn: coercion is not strategy, and bluster is not leverage. When you try to buy silence with taxpayer money, people tend to call it what it is.
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Trump threatened to cut U.S. aid to countries that backed a U.N. resolution rejecting his Jerusalem decision, turning a diplomatic fight into a blatant pressure campaign. The move drew immediate criticism and appeared to harden opposition instead of peeling countries away.