Welcome back to Washington Secrets. Your lunchtime reading today includes the inside story of why Donald Trump backed down in Minneapolis and the lurid details of a former governor’s lunchtime conversation.
But by Monday morning, senior figures knew that the means were in danger of overshadowing the ends.
Chaos on the streets of Minneapolis, where a protester was shot dead Saturday, was only adding to recent polls that showed people were in favor of the border crackdown but wary of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and their tactics.
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“The government is on the losing end of the info war, and that’s never a good place to be,” a senior administration official told Secrets.
“It’s hard to keep the two sides separated. And when there are
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