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Taken together, these stories showed the Trump brand’s core weakness in 2017: when things go wrong, the instinct is denial first, accountability later, if ever. That may work in a campaign rally. It looks a lot worse when federal prosecutors are filing papers and hurricane victims are still waiting for the lights to come back on.
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The special counsel’s office unsealed charges against Paul Manafort and Rick Gates on October 27, giving the Russia probe its first public criminal punch. For Trump, the problem was not just that his former campaign chairman was under indictment; it was that the case underscored how deeply the campaign’s orbit was already under legal siege.
The Trump administration said it had nothing to do with a controversial $300 million Puerto Rico power-restoration contract that went to a tiny Montana company. The disavowal was an admission of political damage control, not competence, after a disaster response already under heavy criticism.