A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on August 29, 2024.
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Trump’s operation keeps mistaking outrage for momentum. On this date, the Arlington mess was still doing the thing Trump scandals do best: eating the message, insulting the setting, and leaving the campaign to explain why basic boundaries suddenly became optional.
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On Aug. 29, the Army defended an Arlington National Cemetery employee involved in a confrontation with a Trump campaign staffer, while officials said the campaign had been warned not to photograph in Section 60. Trump answered with dismissal, keeping the episode alive and raising fresh questions about how his team treated the site.