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The Memo: Trump team stokes fight over Mueller | TheHill

posted onMay 18, 2018
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Article snippet: MORE’s Russia probe as the investigation enters its second year. on Thursday — one year to the day since Mueller was appointed — that “it is an absolute requirement that the investigation and the investigators are put under scrutiny.” ADVERTISEMENT “If it is true that they put a spy — or two — inside the Trump campaign, it is not different from Watergate, except it is Democrats doing it to Republicans, rather than Republicans doing it to Democrats,” Giuliani told The Hill.   Nevertheless, Giuliani insisted, “I said a long time ago, the only crimes were committed by the investigators rather than the president. So far, everything I have seen vindicates that opinion.” on Thursday morning. Yet that ignores five guilty pleas that have come out of the investigation, including from former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign official Richard Gates and Papadopoulos.  MORE in May 2017. MORE (Texas), have called for Trump’s impeachment. Party leaders have so far proven resistant to those calls, but few people beyond Trump’s core supporters doubt that the Mueller probe has done the president serious damage. “It has obviously been an enormous distraction for the administration,” said Grant Reeher, a professor of political science at Syracuse University. “Whatever the amount of political capital [he had], it has been diminished.” Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said that the probe had created problems for Trump already and was likely “a long w... Link to the full article to read more

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