A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on May 26, 2020.
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By the end of the day, the theme was not subtle: when Trump and his team were asked to govern transparently, they kept reaching for the off switch. The result was a government that looked less like a crisis command center and more like a cleanup crew trying to hide the smoke alarm.
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Glenn Fine, the Pentagon’s principal deputy inspector general, resigned on May 26 after being pushed out of the coronavirus relief oversight job Trump had effectively blocked him from doing. The resignation was the latest proof that the administration’s allergy to independent oversight was not a one-off scandal but a sustained operation.