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Misty » 16 Feb 2018 7:19 pm » wrote:

Trump has made Rosenstein an even bigger whipping boy than Mueller in some ways, and has openly threatened to discharge him.

Friday's indictments should blunt if not silence those discreditable attacks.

But immediately and predictably, the president found a way to deflect the charges.

"Russia started their anti-US campaign in 2014," he tweeted, "long before I announced that I would run for President.
The results of the election were not impacted. The Trump campaign did nothing wrong — no collusion!"

Now he admits there was in fact an anti-U.S. campaign?

That's progress, of a sort. The other comments are bogus.

Mueller and the intelligence establishment have never said, because they could not possibly know, whether Russian interference swung the election.

In fact, given the closeness of the election and the apparent targeting by Russians of the most closely fought districts, whether "the results of the election were impacted" is a historic imponderable that political scientists and bar-goers will debate without resolution for years.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la ... story.html