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Republican lawmakers spent the day trying to protect Trump from the political blast radius of the Mueller report. That is not a victory lap; it is evidence that the mess had grown big enough to consume the party’s bandwidth.
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Republican lawmakers spent the day trying to protect Trump from the political blast radius of the Mueller report. That is not a victory lap; it is evidence that the mess had grown big enough to consume the party’s bandwidth.
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Republican lawmakers spent the day trying to protect Trump from the political blast radius of the Mueller report. That is not a victory lap; it is evidence that the mess had grown big enough to consume the party’s bandwidth.
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