A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 6, 2020.
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The day’s throughline was simple: a president and his allies were treating the courts, the Senate, and the campaign trail like one long extension cord for their own outrage. It was not a clean victory lap. It was a familiar Trump operation, which is to say loud, combative, and one bad filing away from making the original problem look bigger.
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On the same day Trump was basking in Senate acquittal fallout, his campaign filed a defamation suit against The New York Times over an opinion column about Russia and the 2016 election. The move looked less like a strong legal case than a fresh example of Trump-world using courts to launder political grievance.