A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on July 10, 2018.
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It was a day that captured the Trump era’s signature trick: create a problem, insist it is someone else’s fault, and then act surprised when the fallout arrives in triplicate. One story was about who gets forgiven. The other was about who gets left behind.
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The administration failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite separated migrant children under 5 with their parents, leaving dozens still apart and deepening the legal and moral backlash over zero tolerance.
Trump pardoned Dwight and Steven Hammond, Oregon ranchers whose case helped spark the Malheur Refuge occupation, handing critics another example of clemency politics with a built-in extremism problem.