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Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey remained the dominant self-inflicted wound on May 14, as the White House faced mounting criticism over the timing, the Russia probe, and the increasingly absurd attempt to sell the move as anything but a political disaster.
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Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey remained the dominant self-inflicted wound on May 14, as the White House faced mounting criticism over the timing, the Russia probe, and the increasingly absurd attempt to sell the move as anything but a political disaster.
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Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey remained the dominant self-inflicted wound on May 14, as the White House faced mounting criticism over the timing, the Russia probe, and the increasingly absurd attempt to sell the move as anything but a political disaster.
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