A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
3 verified reports published on February 11, 2025.
This edition is the complete daily record. Reports remain separate so readers can see each claim, source set, correction, and update without one article being mislabeled as the entire edition.
This was the kind of day that makes opponents stop arguing about rhetoric and start talking about damage control. Trump’s team looked less like a government than a stress test for every anti-corruption guardrail in the system. And on February 11, the guardrails were not exactly winning.
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On February 10, 2025, Trump paused new Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement, pardoned Rod Blagojevich, and the Justice Department directed prosecutors to seek dismissal of the Eric Adams case. Those were separate actions, but taken together they sharpened the question of how hard the administration intends to push on corruption.
On February 11, 2025, the White House ordered agencies to start a DOGE-linked workforce overhaul while a New York federal court left intact an earlier ban on DOGE access to Treasury records. The injunction had begun with a February 8 temporary restraining order, and the judge said the constitutional questions did not yet need to be decided.
The White House’s Feb. 10 pause on new FCPA enforcement and the abrupt removal of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics director set off criticism that continued into Feb. 11.