Michael Tomasky | Yes, This Is Going to Be Worse Than Watergate



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Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "Something changed last weekend, did it not? The firing of Andrew McCabe. The statement by Trump lawyer John Dowd to The Daily Beast's Betsy Woodruff that Robert Mueller should end his probe soon. Donald Trump's tweetstorm just after that, his first tweets mentioning Mueller by name along with promises by aides that more attacks are on the way."
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