Kelly McParland: White House needs a rescue mission for itself

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Kelly McParland: White House needs a rescue mission for itself

Saving pilot's life a small win for administration struddling with market insecurities, air travel chaos and support for Iran war

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Donald Trump’s victory lap over the rescue of an American airman shot down over Iran provides a welcome respite for an administration badly in need of good tidings.

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The good news might divert the White House for a news cycle or two from the setbacks, defeats and disappointments that spoiled the first anniversary of Liberation Day, turning what might have been a celebratory moment into a study in disappointment.

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Never mind the war for now. The courts, the Congress, the polls, the markets, the ranks of countries that U.S. governments used to treat as friends and allies and even the local gas pumps all seem to have conspired to convince ordinary Americans things weren’t going as they’d been promised.

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The situation on the legal front was particularly dire, where an assortment of courts came to concurrent conclusions unfavourable to MAGA world. A federal judge ordered a halt to construction of the glitzy mega-ballroom Trump was set on adding to the White........

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