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Trump Keeps Digging In On Cohen And Manafort
Trump spent March 3 trying to wave away the Cohen and Manafort damage, but his own public messages only kept the story alive and made the optics worse.
Edition · March 3, 2019
The Daily Fuckup: March 3, 2019
A Sunday of post-Mueller denial, broken defenses, and a White House still trying to spin its way out of a legal and political hole.
On March 3, 2019, Trump spent the day trying to talk his way out of the damage left by the Cohen and Manafort matters, even as the evidence stream kept moving in the wrong direction. The White House also kept facing the broader aftershocks of a presidency that had made legal exposure, ethical entanglements, and public contradiction part of the daily operating system.
Closing take
This was one of those days when Trump’s biggest problem was not a single new bombshell so much as the accumulation of them. The lies, the denials, the court cases, the impulsive defenses, and the habit of making every scandal louder all kept feeding the same story: a White House that could not stop turning bad news into worse news.
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