A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
2 verified reports published on September 13, 2024.
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Trump keeps trying to treat chaos as proof of strength. On September 13, 2024, it looked more like a campaign that had stepped on a rake, then picked it up and hit itself again.
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Trump’s false debate claim about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, was still ricocheting through the city, with officials dealing with bomb threats, school disruption, and fresh anger at the campaign’s willingness to set off a panic and call it politics.
Rather than cutting bait, Trump kept the Springfield falsehood alive, making the campaign look less like it had made a mistake and more like it had decided the mistake was the point.