Republicans Have Dramatically Ramped Up Their Attacks On Russia Probes In 2018

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Here’s why that’s worrying.


Republicans were already doing their best to comply. The president’s allies spent the first 10 days of 2018 redoubling their efforts to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe and its congressional cousins, and protect Trump from any political or legal fallout.

“They’ve gone with the best defense is a good offense,” said Laurie Levenson, a former federal prosecutor who is now a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “Bob Mueller must be made of Kevlar, because they’ve definitely been shooting at him.”

The sheer number of Republican attacks on the Russia investigations in just the first few days of 2018 makes it easy to forget how many there have been. Here are a few:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-robert-mueller-investigations-gop_us_5a56dfb4e4b0a300f905c57b?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

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1. Sealed indictments!