House Republicans made matters even worse for Trump on his day from hell

**From Steve Benen, editor of MaddowBlog and producer for “The Rachel Maddow Show”:** 

Donald Trump has suffered through plenty of awful days this year, but few could compete with the events that unfolded on Thursday.

Over the course of roughly six hours, the president learned that a federal judge had ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from immigration custody, a grand jury had again rejected an effort to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, Republicans in Indiana’s state Senate had rejected his radical redistricting scheme, and an Associated Press poll found that two-thirds of Americans reject his handling of the economy.

As days in the White House go, this one was pretty rough for the hapless incumbent.

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Incompetent incumbent flows off the tongue better.