Must Reads: A Trump accuser's persistence, a white supremacist's family and a Florida teen'

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As the #MeToo movement revived interest in sexual misconduct allegations against President Trump, national enterprise reporter Eli Saslow started thinking about the 19 accusers. He wondered, he said, "what the experience is like for one of the 19." Saslow — who won a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for an intimate and deeply reported series about food stamps — compiled short bios of each woman and watched interviews with them. He was most intrigued by Rachel Crooks, who claimed Trump began kissing her without her consent beside an elevator in Trump Tower in 2006. At the time, she was 22, and he was 59.  "Rachel very quickly stood out," Saslow said, because she lived in a part of Ohio that had voted overwhelmingly for Trump. "There was just a lot more tension in her life and daily experience" than many of the president's other accusers. Not everyone in Crooks's own family believed she was telling the truth. In January, Saslow spent four days with Crooks, watching as some of those tensions unfolded. Saslow, who has worked at The Post for 13 years, always immerses himself in the lives of his subjects. He spends hours asking questions and listening to the answers. "I don't ever feel rushed," he said. He wanted to understand "what those minutes meant to her...to have it be a story about her and not about him." But then Trump tweeted about the story, insisting that he'd never met Crooks and that the incident "Never happened!" And suddenly, it became about Trump again.  — Lynda Robinson, Local Enterprise Editor Trump accuser keeps telling her story, hoping someone will finally listen Rachel Crooks, one of “The Nineteen,” also has to keep asking herself: Will it ever make a difference? Eli Saslow  •   Read more » ‘I don’t know how you got this way:’ a young neo-Nazi reveals himself to his family After the 2016 election, Kam Musser went from supporting white supremacists to joining a neo-Nazi group. And now his mother and grandmother wonder whether they can get him back. Terrence McCoy  •   Read more » How a survivor of the Florida school shooting became the victim of an online conspiracy The Parkland falsehoods underscore how efforts to quell the spread of such online conspiracies remain incomplete on platforms that derive profits by attracting eyeballs en masse. Craig Timberg, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Abby Ohlheiser and Andrew Ba Tran  •   Read more » Mueller and Trump: Born to wealth, raised to lead. Then, sharply different choices. In Vietnam, in matters of love and in their careers, the president and the man investigating him have followed opposite paths. Marc Fisher and Sari Horwitz  •   Read more » ‘I would rather not be alone.’ Behind their anger, Florida students are still teens struggling with trauma. Some fear loud noises. Some are sleeping in their parents’ beds, some not at all. Deep down, they’re kids trying to figure out how to feel about a massacre that killed their friends. Jessica Contrera  •   Read more »