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Trump’s new lawyer spent the week trying to narrow the damage from his own explosive TV comments, but the cleanup only highlighted how unstable the White House line had become. By May 5, the effort to say less and explain more had become its own problem, because every correction underscored that the original version was not reliable.
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Trump’s new lawyer spent the week trying to narrow the damage from his own explosive TV comments, but the cleanup only highlighted how unstable the White House line had become. By May 5, the effort to say less and explain more had become its own problem, because every correction underscored that the original version was not reliable.
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Trump’s new lawyer spent the week trying to narrow the damage from his own explosive TV comments, but the cleanup only highlighted how unstable the White House line had become. By May 5, the effort to say less and explain more had become its own problem, because every correction underscored that the original version was not reliable.
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