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Fresh holiday-week reporting and public records kept the Ukraine affair alive after the House impeachment vote, underscoring that this was no longer a messaging squall Trump could simply shout down. The aid freeze, the July call, and the administration’s own attempts to manage the damage were still generating new questions and new criticism.
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Fresh holiday-week reporting and public records kept the Ukraine affair alive after the House impeachment vote, underscoring that this was no longer a messaging squall Trump could simply shout down. The aid freeze, the July call, and the administration’s own attempts to manage the damage were still generating new questions and new criticism.
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Fresh holiday-week reporting and public records kept the Ukraine affair alive after the House impeachment vote, underscoring that this was no longer a messaging squall Trump could simply shout down. The aid freeze, the July call, and the administration’s own attempts to manage the damage were still generating new questions and new criticism.
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