A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on October 28, 2019.
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If there was a theme on October 28, it was this: Trump-world keeps mistaking volume for strategy. The raid against Baghdadi was a real victory. The political handling of it was a mess. And the impeachment inquiry was now at the stage where delay tactics and theatrical defiance were becoming part of the evidence, not a defense against it.
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House Democrats were preparing to vote on a resolution for the next phase of the impeachment inquiry, a sign that the Ukraine scandal had moved from a mess of allegations into an institutional showdown with real momentum.
Charles Kupperman, a former Bolton deputy, was still fighting a subpoena battle that looked to critics like a coordinated effort to run out the clock on the impeachment inquiry rather than answer it.
The president tried to seize the spotlight for the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but his bragging, side-swipes, and appetite for detail immediately invited criticism that he was turning a serious counterterrorism victory into a self-referential spectacle.