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.
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3 verified reports published on March 3, 2019.
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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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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.
The day’s Trump-world drama showed how badly the president’s legal defense had deteriorated: too many claims, too many contradictions, and no clean exit.
Trump’s March for Life positioning kept the White House locked into a culture-war posture that energized allies but sharpened the sense that policy was being subordinated to applause lines.