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The packages had already been sent, but the political fallout from the October 2018 mail-bomb scare was still rolling through Washington on November 9. The episode kept spotlighting how Trump’s habit of egging on anger and then shrugging at the consequences helped create a poisonous environment he was never eager to clean up.
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The packages had already been sent, but the political fallout from the October 2018 mail-bomb scare was still rolling through Washington on November 9. The episode kept spotlighting how Trump’s habit of egging on anger and then shrugging at the consequences helped create a poisonous environment he was never eager to clean up.
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