A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on April 26, 2019.
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April 26 was classic late-2019 Trump before late-2019 had even arrived: grievance first, facts later, and subpoenas everywhere. The whole machine was built to convert embarrassment into martyrdom, but the receipts kept piling up anyway.
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Trump’s lawsuit to block House access to his financial records kept looking less like a legal defense and more like a delay tactic, with his own arguments cutting against long-settled congressional oversight powers.
In a Fox interview, Trump admitted his old Obama wiretap claim was really based on “a little bit of a hunch,” then used the same conversation to escalate the Russia-probe grievance into claims of spying and an attempted coup.