A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on August 23, 2021.
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The throughline was simple: when Trump-world loses, it does not recalibrate, it doubles down. On August 23, that meant more grievance, more gaslighting, and more proof that the movement’s instinct is to spin failure into performance art.
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As evacuations from Kabul continued on Aug. 23, 2021, Trump allies used the Afghanistan withdrawal to attack President Joe Biden, while critics pointed back to the Trump administration’s Feb. 29, 2020 deal with the Taliban and its withdrawal commitments.