Trump partisans might succeed in derailing Mueller in the short run, but that spells disaster in the end for Republicans
As the Mueller investigation inexorably closes the noose around Donald Trump and his immediate family, panicked Republicans, prodded by the White House, are doing everything they can to discredit Robert Mueller, the FBI and the entire justice department.
Last week, Republicans on the House judiciary committee opened fire, grilling the deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, and accusing Mueller’s team of bias and a “political witch-hunt”. This makes for great political theater and irresistible cable news fodder, but looking down the road at the different ways this gambit will play itself out, you have to wonder: what on earth are Republicans thinking?
The longer this drags on, the tougher 2018 looks for the ruling party
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