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Back when the Russia mess was still metastasizing, Trump-world spent the day trying to outrun the fallout from the Comey firing—and mostly just made the cloud bigger.
May 15, 2017 sat squarely in the aftershocks of Donald Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, and the political damage kept widening. On this date, the administration was still improvising its way through a scandal that had become bigger than the original decision, with new scrutiny over the White House’s explanations, the role of Justice Department leaders, and the increasingly obvious fact that the Russia investigation was not going away. The day did not deliver one clean new catastrophe so much as a fresh round of self-inflicted wounds that made Trump look more suspicious, more disorganized, and more cornered.
The basic pattern was already hard to miss by May 15: when Trump tried to fix one problem, he usually made three more. The Comey firing had become less a personnel decision than a rolling credibility crisis, and every new explanation only sharpened the suspicion that the White House had something to hide.
5 stars means maximum fallout. 1 star means a smaller self-own.
The administration spent May 15 still taking hits over James Comey’s firing, with lawmakers and legal observers treating the move as a dangerous interference play rather than a routine personnel decision.