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Trump “Wins” The Mueller Report
President says he’s “totally exonerated” even though Mueller expressly states “while the report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him”
But in terms of the immediate impact, and long-term outcome, it’s Trump’s version that will probably prevail in most peoples’ minds.
And of course in multiple rallies, and speeches, and Tweets, you can be sure he won’t let us forget that, casting himself — as he’s already been doing — as a victim for the ages. (So much for Mueller not being able to treat him fairly because Trump stiffed him out of some golf club membership fees).
Democrats — as some realized even before the Attorney General’s summary came out, but others have not even since then — need to tread very gingerly on the Trump/Russia connection now, absent a real doozy of a new smoking gun. Instead they need to shift into overdrive on focusing on the President’s policies.
Taking the path Republicans did after Hillary Clinton was exonerated/not exonerated, and pressing on with their…