A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on September 19, 2020.
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Trump tried to turn the TikTok fight into a win by announcing a deal in principle with Oracle and Walmart, but the company answered with a federal court challenge that accused his administration of political overreach. The split-screen was brutal: the president was claiming a breakthrough while TikTok was saying the whole ban effort was built on shaky legal ground and anti-China campaign messaging.