A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on April 18, 2021.
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For a slow Sunday, this was still a very Trump kind of day: self-congratulation on the way in, contradiction on the way out, and a long tail of consequences he did not leave behind. The strongest story here is not that he changed the Afghanistan debate, but that he made the case for his own legacy sound like a criticism of his successor. That’s not a policy argument. That’s a tell.
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Trump tried to praise the U.S. pullout from Afghanistan as the right move while blasting Biden for choosing Sept. 11 as the end date. The problem for him is obvious: he had already signed a deal that pushed the war to the brink and made his successor inherit the timetable mess.