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Democracy Dies in Darkness Keeping up with politics is easy now   By Amber Phillips He can't be charged with obstructing justice (or so his lawyers argue). He can't sit down for an interview with the special counsel (or so his lawyers argue) and President Trump can pardon himself if he gets charged with a crime in the Russia investigation (or so Trump himself argues). Trump and his allies allies have floated all those defenses recently as he battles the special counsel investigation into whether his campaign helped Russia meddle in the 2016 election. Robert S. Mueller III and Trump. (Saul Loeb and Brendan Smialowski/AFP) Their defenses all have something in common: They assume something bad will happen to the president as Robert S. Mueller III digs deeper. There are two very different reasons Trump and his team might be assuming as much: 1. Trump and his allies genuinely think the investigation is out to g...

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