It’s not just that a major White House official resigned less than a month into Trump’s presidency. It’s that the slow drip of detail keeps the spotlight on questions about Trump’s judgment and the mystery that has dogged his short political career — his alleged ties to the Kremlin.

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Officials are tying themselves in knots trying to explain what journalists are uncovering. For example, we now know that:

Trump was told about Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador, his subsequent misleading of Pence and his potential vulnerability to Russian blackmail in a briefing on Jan. 26.

Trump and his senior advisers never informed Pence of what they knew ; the vice president learned he had been misled after reading news reports ( such as The Post’s on Feb. 9 ) revealing Flynn’s conversations with the ambassador.

We also know this:

Per the White House, Trump asked for Flynn’s resignation because of his “eroding level of trust” in the former general after he misled Pence.

Trump kept Flynn as national security adviser for two full weeks after learning he had misled Pence, asking for his resignation only after the whole situation was exposed in the news media.

There’s one more thing:

Trump kept Flynn as national security adviser despite learning Flynn might be vulnerable to Russian blackmail

Hard to believe we’re less than a month in.

SENATORS TO DEEPEN RUSSIA PROBE; HOUSE GOP, NOT SO MUCH

The Flynn debacle is doing something no one would have thought possible a week ago: uniting Republicans and Democrats in the Senate.

In a rare show of bipartisan unity, leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee stood side by side Tuesday and vowed to deepen their probe of Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election given the circumstances surrounding Flynn’s resignation.

The investigation will seek to uncover “any contacts by any campaign individuals that might have happened with Russian government officials,” said Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), who has the backing of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and other top Republicans.

Across the Capitol, however, it was a different story. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said the most important question wasn’t the extent of the administration’s ties to Russia. Echoing Trump, he said it was why intelligence officials were listening in on Flynn’s calls with Russia’s ambassador in the first place.

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Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) also stopped short of calling for further investigation. “I’ll leave it up to the administration to describe the circumstances surrounding what brought [Flynn] to this point,” he told reporters.

ETHICS OFFICE WEIGHS IN ON CONWAY REMARKS

Remember when Kellyanne Conway endorsed Ivanka Trump’s clothing line during an interview with Fox News?

The news was buried by the unfolding Flynn story, but the Office of Government Ethics brought it back Tuesday when it said Conway’s remarks likely broke federal ethics laws prohibiting the use of public office for private gain.

The White House should investigate and consider disciplining Conway, the office said, and the top Republican and Democrat on the House Oversight Committee agreed.

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TRUMP ROLLS BACK DISCLOSURE RULES FOR OIL COMPANIES

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Trump signed a major bill on Tuesday, and as our colleague Steven Mufson wrote, the measure could “presage the most aggressive assault on government regulations since President Reagan.”

The bill cancels a regulation from the Securities and Exchange Commission that would have required oil and gas and mining companies to disclose payments they make to foreign governments. That requirement was drafted in response to directions in the Dodd-Frank financial reform law and was intended to increase transparency to help fight corruption.

Opponents of the rule, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said it would “put natural resource companies at a competitive disadvantage to foreign firms by disclosing too much of their contract terms” and that the cost of compliance would be a burden.

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