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Trump’s pressure campaign around Roger Stone was still producing blowback on February 14, with the sentencing-recommendation reversal deepening concerns about interference, favoritism, and the collapse of any pretense of normal Justice Department discipline.
At a National Border Patrol Council appearance on February 14, Trump doubled down on the wall-and-border script, a move that played to the base but did nothing to solve the legal and political wreckage his administration was already managing elsewhere.