A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on July 13, 2020.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
The pattern is bigger than any one headline. Trump’s team kept choosing performative confrontation over workable policy, then spending the next news cycle pretending the backlash was the problem. That is not leadership; it is self-sabotage with a seal on it.
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Universities, states, and business groups kept piling onto the legal fight over ICE’s sudden foreign-student rule, turning a weekend policy stunt into a broader embarrassment for the White House.
Trump spent July 13 boosting a falsehood-filled attack on public health officials, deepening the administration’s credibility problem as coronavirus cases kept surging.
Even apart from the retweet, Trump-world kept leaning into contradictions and denial, undercutting public-health officials while the pandemic numbers worsened.