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2 verified reports published on February 24, 2020.
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For a president who sells winning as theater, February 24 was a rough reminder that theater is not the same thing as leverage. The trip produced imagery, not a deal. And back home, the Justice Department drama around Roger Stone was still a neon sign flashing: this crowd cannot stop making its own headaches.
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The Stone sentencing reversal kept drawing backlash and made Trump’s claim to respect the rule of law look even more ridiculous, with prosecutors already gone and the institutional damage still widening.
Trump’s long-touted visit to India was heavy on spectacle and light on concrete gains, with trade tensions and unrest over India’s citizenship law overshadowing the diplomacy.