A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on June 29, 2020.
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The core Trump move here was familiar: ignore the warning signs, stage the spectacle, and pretend the optics will cover the substance. On June 29, the bill for that gamble was already coming due.
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The June 20 Tulsa rally was still chewing through Trumpworld on June 29, as the campaign kept dealing with positive coronavirus tests, criticism over the packed indoor event, and questions about whether the whole stunt had been worth it.
The campaign’s effort to pitch Trump as newly attentive to Black voters kept running into the fact that Tulsa had been a racially toxic choice from the start, especially after the Juneteenth backlash and George Floyd protests.
Trump’s claim that he told officials to slow coronavirus testing kept haunting him after the Tulsa rally, turning a boast into a self-incriminating sound bite as the pandemic kept worsening.