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Trump on Enemies: Vlad Not as Bad as Mueller

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 4/26/19

At 9:52 on the morning that the redacted version of the Mueller Report was to be released, I received an e-mail from a longtime acquaintance who’s a Trump supporter asking for “a public acknowledgement by you in the editorial section. It’s official from the Mueller Report: No Collusion with The Russians by the Trump campaign.”

I was puzzled by the timing: the report would not be released until 11 a.m., and so my correspondent was relying on a 9:30 press conference by William Barr consisting of the same spin he had offered late in March in a summary of the report that was tilted to cast Mr. Trump in the best possible light regarding whether his campaign had coordinated strategy with Russian operatives during the 2016 election and then the President engaged in obstruction of justice to cover it up.

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