A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 16, 2021.
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By this point, the immediate question was no longer whether Trump had broken the place. It was how much of the wreckage would still be smoldering when he finally left town.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar’s resignation letter, disclosed on January 16, said Trump’s post-election behavior and the Capitol attack threatened to tarnish the administration’s legacy. That is not a routine goodbye note. It is a senior Cabinet official putting the outgoing president on record as the problem.