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The June 1 clearing of protesters near the White House was still a live political wound on June 22. Questions about who ordered the operation and why it happened kept feeding the sense that the administration’s explanation was incomplete and self-serving. The episode remained one of the clearest examples of Trump world turning a public-relations moment into a constitutional and reputational headache.
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The June 1 clearing of protesters near the White House was still a live political wound on June 22. Questions about who ordered the operation and why it happened kept feeding the sense that the administration’s explanation was incomplete and self-serving. The episode remained one of the clearest examples of Trump world turning a public-relations moment into a constitutional and reputational headache.
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The June 1 clearing of protesters near the White House was still a live political wound on June 22. Questions about who ordered the operation and why it happened kept feeding the sense that the administration’s explanation was incomplete and self-serving. The episode remained one of the clearest examples of Trump world turning a public-relations moment into a constitutional and reputational headache.
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