Mueller’s report would have signaled the end for anyone other than Trump
Posted by The Editor on April 18, 2019 3:44 pm
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The activity discovered by Mueller was not, as Trump and his allies falsely insist, standard stuff for a political campaign
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For all his bluster about being a master builder, Donald Trump really made his millions through branding. From chewy steaks to failing casinos, Trump has spent decades putting lucrative lipstick on pigs.
So when faced with a sprawling criminal investigation into how Russia worked to get him elected – and how he then repeatedly tried to obstruct the inquiry – the president devised a brutally effective public relations campaign.