A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on August 6, 2018.
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The through-line is ugly and simple: when Trump tries to clarify, he usually confirms the worst version of events. That may not be a prosecutable admission by itself, but it is a catastrophic messaging habit, and it keeps turning old scandals into fresh ones.
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Trump publicly confirmed that the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting was aimed at getting damaging information on Hillary Clinton, undercutting the earlier story that the meeting was mostly about Russian adoptions. The admission revived questions about the campaign’s honesty, the drafting of the follow-up statement, and how much the president knew when his circle was trying to explain away the encounter.
The one-year mark of the Charlottesville violence put Trump back in the hot seat over race and extremism. Coverage and commentary on August 6 focused on the White House’s failure to make the president’s response to white supremacy look less toxic, leaving him exposed to fresh criticism that he still won’t speak plainly about the movement that marched in 2017.