A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on January 27, 2021.
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By late January 2021, the post-Trump cleanup was no longer theoretical. The administration he left behind was still finding new ways to shred policy, but the bigger story was the country beginning to pry apart the machinery of his wreckage and name it for what it was.
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The Justice Department rescinded the Trump-era memo that powered the administration’s “zero tolerance” border policy, a move that formally repudiated one of the ugliest decisions of the Trump years. The rollback underscored how badly the policy had been designed and how much political and moral damage it left behind.