Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onApril 22, 2019
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Opinion | Nancy Gertner Why does Barr’s spin matter? Barr can influence the pending investigations arising out of the Mueller investigation.  Editorial The man with the constitutional responsibility to protect this country repeatedly tried to thwart the investigation.
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Politics - The Boston Globe

posted onApril 22, 2019
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Opinion | Nancy Gertner Why does Barr’s spin matter? Barr can influence the pending investigations arising out of the Mueller investigation.  Editorial The man with the constitutional responsibility to protect this country repeatedly tried to thwart the investigation.
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The Memo: Mueller's depictions will fuel Trump angst | TheHill

posted onApril 21, 2019
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Special counsel MORE painted a damning picture of the Trump administration, even as he handed the president a victory on the central issue of collusion with Russia. The Trump White House, as portrayed by Mueller, revolves around an impulsive and angry president who issues orders that underlings often defy, ignore or seek to delay. The depiction will enrage a president who fixates on the concept of strength and is hypersensitive about any suggestion that he is not in absolute control of his administration. “He will be livid to see this spelled out — and it is not clear
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McGahn's lawyer pushes back after Giuliani knocks his credibility | TheHill

posted onApril 21, 2019
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An attorney for former White House counsel Don McGahn is pushing back after President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani went after McGahn's credibility following the release of special counsel MORE’s report. McGahn's lawyer responded after Giuliani gave interviews to The New York Times and The Washington Post in which he went after McGahn's account of various instances of potential obstruction of justice detailed in the special counsel repo
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2020 Dems ratchet up anti-corporate talk in bid to woo unions | TheHill

posted onApril 21, 2019
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Democratic presidential hopefuls are seizing on anti-corporate rhetoric and policy proposals as they look to win the support of influential labor unions and frame themselves as working-class heroes. While virtually every Democrat in the race has sworn off corporate campaign cash, many are still grappling with past ties to powerful industries and fear that candidates like Sen. MORE (I-Vt.) could eventually frame their more recent denunciations of big business and special interests as inauthentic or opportunistic. Sen.
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Democrats renew attacks on Trump attorney general | TheHill

posted onApril 21, 2019
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Democrats ripped into Attorney General MORE on Friday, signaling he'll be a focal point of their attacks on the Trump administration in the post-Mueller report world. The Democrats say Barr bungled the handling of special counsel MORE, contrasting his comments about what the report said with the actual text that was released on Thursday. House Judiciary Committee Chairman MORE (D-N.Y.) issued a subpoena on Friday to win the release of the full report, while other Democrats have called for Barr's resignation. The repo
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End of Mueller shifts focus to existing probes | TheHill

posted onApril 21, 2019
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Special counsel MORE is finished investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, shifting the focus to cases spawned by his 22-month probe. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating MORE’s campaign finance violations thanks to one of more than a dozen referrals Mueller made to other districts in the course of his investigation. Prosecutors in Washington are eyeing a November trial for MORE, a case Mueller passed off when he shuttered his probe after charging the former Trump ally with l
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If Romney Fought Obama as Much as He Fights Me, He Could Have Won

posted onApril 21, 2019
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“If Mitt Romney spent the same energy fighting Barack Obama as he does fighting Donald Trump, he could have won the race,” Trump wrote on Twitter, adding “(maybe)!” He shared a clip of Romney appearing to be emotional as he lost the election in 2012. Trump was responding to Romney’s assertion on Twitter that he was “sickened” by the revelations in the Mueller report of the “dishonesty and misdirection” by the president. “That was a race, folks, that should have been won,” Trump says in the clip about 2012. Trump has a history of mocking Romney as a candidate who “choked like a dog” in the 2012
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