The Assault on Mueller




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FOCUS: The Assault on Mueller 
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Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine
Sullivan writes: "Republican tribalism demands that the Mueller investigation be aggressively smeared in advance, its findings preemptively discredited, and its lawyers smeared for political loyalties, even when there is no evidence that this is affecting the special counsel's work."
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