A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on March 6, 2018.
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The pattern here is not subtle: Trump kept choosing the flashiest move in the room, and the fallout kept landing on his own desk. On March 6, that meant losing a top economic aide over a tariff stunt that had already rattled business allies, while a court filing threatened to pry open the hush-money story again. Different messes, same basic failure — act first, absorb consequences later.
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Gary Cohn, the White House’s top economic adviser, said he would resign after failing to stop Donald Trump’s steel and aluminum tariff push, a sign that the administration’s trade policy had begun to eat its own internal leadership. The exit underscored how Trump’s protectionist turn was not just drawing outside criticism; it was blowing up the West Wing’s economic chain of command.
Stormy Daniels filed suit seeking to void the nondisclosure agreement tied to her alleged affair with Donald Trump, arguing the deal never properly took effect because Trump himself did not sign it. The lawsuit dragged a campaign-era scandal into open legal warfare and threatened to expose more of the arrangement’s mechanics.