A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on June 15, 2018.
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Trump’s gift for turning self-inflicted wounds into culture-war theater was on full display. The problem is that this time the wound was real, the images were brutal, and the excuses were collapsing under their own cruelty.
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Trump used a Friday media appearance to defend family separation as leverage on immigration, then tried to pin the policy on Democrats. The line only made the backlash worse, because the administration’s own officials and the basic chronology made clear this was Trump’s design, not some unavoidable law of nature.