A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 23, 2018.
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The shutdown ended, but the problem didn’t: Trump had managed to turn an immigration fight into a self-inflicted credibility test, then walk away with neither a clean win nor a stable coalition. On January 23, the backlash was still building, and it was pretty obvious which side had the better story.
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The government was back open, but the immigration fight Trump had helped ignite was now producing open fury from advocates and fresh doubts about whether he could cut a real deal without blowing up his own coalition.