One of the themes of this year's campaign was the apparent mass amnesia among many Americans of just what the Trump Presidency was like. Every day since Trump won has been a crash course in remembering: the cryptic all-caps social-media posts at all hours, containing major government announcements; the erratic decision-making that stuns even his most senior advisers; the casual shattering of norms, rules, and traditions, any one of which would have provoked days of controversy for another politician.
In just the first two weeks of an incoming Administration? No, there is no precedent. Consider this sampling of CNN headlines from Thursday morning: 'Police report reveals new details from sexual assault claim against Hegseth'; 'Linda McMahon, Trump's Education pick, was sued for allegedly enabling sexual abuse of children'; 'New document details the trail of payments Gaetz made to women.'
Should you spend your time trying to decipher the leaked chart from the Matt Gaetz sex-trafficking investigation, the one with all the complicated lines tracing Venmo payments between Trump's would-be Attorney General and women he allegedly compensated for sex? Or reading the twenty-two-page police report documenting the allegations of a woman who says that she was sexually assaulted at a Republican conference in California a few years back by Pete Hegseth?
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