A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on October 28, 2020.
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If there was a theme to October 28, 2020, it was that Trump World had turned chaos into a governing style and a campaign strategy at the same time. That is sometimes useful for dominating attention. It is not useful when the facts, the courts, and the political calendar all start pushing back at once.
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On the same day the campaign was chasing new distractions, the White House was still living with the consequences of a pandemic response that had become fragmented, contradictory, and impossible to sell as competent.
Trump World was still trying to turn the Hunter Biden laptop story into a late-campaign bombshell, but the provenance problems and Rudy Giuliani’s involvement kept making the attack look sloppier than scandalous.
The Supreme Court declined to let Trump’s latest bid to keep his financial records hidden play out on his schedule, another reminder that delay tactics only work until judges stop indulging them.