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Comey obsession
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
The Comey fight was still chewing through the news cycle on April 17, thanks to Trump’s own compulsive need to answer every insult with a bigger one. Rather than let the book and interview drift, he kept attacking Comey’s credibility and relitigating the FBI drama in public, which only gave the former director more attention and kept the president stuck in a losing argument about character and conduct. The episode was less a policy event than a recurring self-own with national-security overtones.
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Legal crossfire
Confidence 4/5
★★★☆☆Fuckup rating 3/5
Major mess
Sean Hannity’s admission that he had sought legal advice from Michael Cohen landed like a politically radioactive side plot inside an already ugly Trump story. By April 17, the connection had become impossible for Trump’s allies to wave away, and it raised fresh questions about conflicts, coordination, and just how many people in Trump’s orbit were quietly using Cohen as a personal fixer. The result was not a clean explanation but a widening credibility problem for everyone involved.
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