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By the time the Valentine’s Day roses were off the desk, the new administration had already managed to turn loyalty, legality, and basic competence into open questions. The president wanted the investigation to vanish; instead, he left behind a paper trail and a political problem that could only grow louder.
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A contemporaneous memo describing the president’s February 14 meeting with James Comey suggests Trump tried to shut down the FBI’s Michael Flynn inquiry. If that account holds, it turns a private chat into a potential obstruction mess with immediate legal and political consequences.
The administration’s first travel ban remained mired in legal defeat and cleanup mode on February 14, with the White House flirting with a rewrite after judges blocked key parts of the order. The episode exposed how sloppily the rollout had been done and how quickly Trump had been forced into retreat.