A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on May 25, 2024.
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Backfill days are often about choosing the best ember, not pretending the whole forest was on fire. On May 25, the story was Trump’s legal liability metastasizing into a political one, with the family-brand takeover of the GOP still looking less like strength than a long, expensive bet on chaos.
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Lara Trump, Eric Trump, and Donald Trump turned a North Carolina Republican convention into a display of the family’s influence inside the party, with Donald Trump joining by speakerphone after Eric Trump dialed him in from the stage.