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By February 8, the memo fight was starting to look like a party-internal liability, not a clean win. Republicans were no longer speaking with one voice, and the effort to sell the memo as a full exoneration of Trump was colliding with warnings from Democrats and unease from some GOP lawmakers who seemed to understand that helping the president attack the FBI could age very badly.
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By February 8, the memo fight was starting to look like a party-internal liability, not a clean win. Republicans were no longer speaking with one voice, and the effort to sell the memo as a full exoneration of Trump was colliding with warnings from Democrats and unease from some GOP lawmakers who seemed to understand that helping the president attack the FBI could age very badly.
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By February 8, the memo fight was starting to look like a party-internal liability, not a clean win. Republicans were no longer speaking with one voice, and the effort to sell the memo as a full exoneration of Trump was colliding with warnings from Democrats and unease from some GOP lawmakers who seemed to understand that helping the president attack the FBI could age very badly.
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