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Trump’s memo gambit starts looking less like strategy than a cover-up sprint
The White House’s push to weaponize the Nunes memo against the Russia investigation was meeting serious resistance on February 8, as Democrats, career officials, and national security critics kept pressing the argument that Trump had crossed a bright line by trying to use a classified document to undercut the probe into his own campaign. The political benefit Trump expected was turning into another round of suspicion about obstruction, procedural abuse, and whether the administration was trying to bully the Justice Department into protecting the president instead of the public interest.