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3 verified reports published on February 10, 2018.
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February 10 was not one of those dates with a single blockbuster blowup. It was worse in a subtler way: a day when several of Trump’s earlier screwups kept compounding, while the White House tried to act as if everything was under control. That’s often how a political mess really works—less like a sudden explosion than like a leak that keeps widening until everyone notices the ceiling is wet. Trump-world had plenty of those leaks by then, and they were all still dripping.
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By February 10, Trump’s habit of treating the Russia investigation as a partisan nuisance had become its own problem, keeping the White House on defense and feeding the idea that the president was more focused on attacking the inquiry than respecting it.
The administration’s decision to wind down DACA was still boomeranging through the courts and the politics on February 10, with the legal fight underscoring how clumsily the White House had handled the issue from the start.
Trump’s nationalist slogan was still being mocked overseas on February 10, a small but telling reminder that the president’s rhetoric was isolating rather than inspiring a lot of the world he claimed to be leading.