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From ‘total exoneration’ to ‘total bullsh**’: Trump lingers on damning report — Washington (CNN)By the time President Donald Trump had passed through the prime rib buffet at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to sit for dinner with family and a top aide, the damning picture Robert Mueller's report painted of his presidency had become clear.
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Top 10 things the media got wrong about ‘collusion’ and ‘obstruction’ — The prestige press has some explaining to do — for subjecting the nation to a long, cruel ordeal named “collusion” and “obstruction.” Almost two years and millions of column inches later, special counsel Robert Mueller …
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Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier — WASHINGTON — The 35-page dossier, spiced up with tales of prostitutes and spies, sketched out a hair-raising story more than two years ago. Russian intelligence had used bribery and blackmail to try to turn Donald J. Trump …
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Trump approval drops 3 points to 2019 low after release of Mueller report: Reuters/Ipsos poll — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report …
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Giuliani Attacks McGahn's Account to Mueller — WASHINGTON — President Trump's lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, attacked the credibility of a former White House counsel on Friday, saying his account of how Mr. Trump told him to remove the special counsel was inaccurate.
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Conservatives Should Thank Mueller — A scrupulous report saved an unscrupulous president. — For the better part of two years, Donald Trump and his partisans did everything they could to denigrate and discredit Robert Mueller and his investigation. — They're not done yet.
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The PDF Association thinks the Mueller report sucks
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Jennifer Taub / Slate:
Don McGahn Not Listening to Donald Trump Doesn't Absolve the President of a Crime
Don McGahn Not Listening to Donald Trump Doesn't Absolve the President of a Crime
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Barbara McQuade / The Daily Beast:
Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?'
Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?'
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Anne Applebaum / Washington Post:
Why was Trump so afraid of the Mueller investigation? We may never know.
David French / TIME:
Donald Trump Is Weak and Afraid. The Mueller Report Proves It
Donald Trump Is Weak and Afraid. The Mueller Report Proves It
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Mark Penn / The Hill:
Mueller's done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon
Mueller's done, and Dems should be too — because Trump is no Nixon
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The Mueller Report and the Danger Facing American Democracy
The Mueller Report and the Danger Facing American Democracy
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Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
The Mueller Report Vindicates Bill Barr
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Collins: Mueller report includes ‘an unflattering portrayal’ of Trump
Collins: Mueller report includes ‘an unflattering portrayal’ of Trump
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment
In a Functional Country, We Would Be on the Road to Impeachment
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Asha Rangappa / New York Times:
How Barr and Trump Use a Russian Disinformation Tactic
How Barr and Trump Use a Russian Disinformation Tactic
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Five unresolved mysteries about Russian meddling in Mueller's report
Five unresolved mysteries about Russian meddling in Mueller's report
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How a legal dispute between Mueller and Barr drove the end of the special counsel's probe — For nearly two years, the public, Congress and the White House waited to learn if special counsel Robert S. Mueller III would find that President Trump had committed crimes.
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A Reader's Guide to the Journalism Behind the Mueller Report — If some of the revelations in Robert S. Mueller III's long-awaited report sound familiar, it's because many of them were previously published by The New York Times and other news outlets. — Times Insider explains …
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Trump aides worry Sarah Sanders' collapsed credibility will drag the White House down even more: report — Special counsel Robert Mueller revealed in his report that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted under oath that she had lied to the American people as part …
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Sanders's ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses. Not Trump's.
Sanders's ‘Slip of the Tongue’ Would Be a Problem in Some White Houses. Not Trump's.
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CNN's April Ryan Says Sarah Sanders' Head Should Be “Lopped Off”
CNN's April Ryan Says Sarah Sanders' Head Should Be “Lopped Off”
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The Mueller Report Demands an Impeachment Inquiry — Here is, as Bill Barr might call it, “the bottom line”: The Mueller Report describes, in excruciating detail and with relatively few redactions, a candidate and a campaign aware of the existence of a plot by a hostile foreign government …
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‘The Democratic base is angry as hell’: Cory Booker's message of love falls flat — SIOUX CITY, IOWA — Sen. Cory Booker launched a bid for the White House in February on a message of love and unity, painting himself as an inspirational leader who would help a polarized America find common ground.
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‘I Do Not Remember’: Trump Gave a Familiar Reply to the Special Counsel's Queries — WASHINGTON — President Trump has boasted at various points that he has “one of the great memories of all time” or even “the world's greatest memory.” — But the world's greatest memory failed him repeatedly …

After 40 Years, C-Span's Founder Signs Off — Brian Lamb, the man who put Congress on live television, reflects on the results and explains why the Supreme Court ought to be next. — Washington — 'Lying is the word that I would use to describe this town," says Brian Lamb, in his usual Midwestern deadpan. "

“Fixer Upper” Is Over, But Waco's Transformation Is Just Beginning — HGTV stars Chip and Joanna Gaines helped convert a sleepy Texas town into a tourist mecca. But not everyone agrees on what Waco's “restoration” should look like. — There are dozens of new stores in Waco, Texas …

Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet — Workers at a 787 Dreamliner plant in South Carolina have complained of defective manufacturing, debris left on planes and pressure to not report violations. — NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — When Boeing broke ground …

Armed Mexican Soldiers Disarm, Question U.S. Soldiers on Texas Side of Border — A group of armed Mexican soldiers detained and disarmed a pair of U.S. soldiers on the U.S. side of the Texas border with Mexico. The U.S. soldiers were eventually released and their weapons returned.

Mueller's report proves why Trump loves Fox News — and why he needs it now more than ever — It's no secret that Fox News and the Trump administration are deeply entwined with each other: They are the conjoined twins of misinformation. — So it hardly raised an eyebrow when the president took …
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