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Fri Jul 13, 2018, 05:07 PM Jul 2018

Republicans respond to latest Mueller indictment with desperate gaslighting

AARON RUPAR at Think Progress

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-giuliani-gaslight-mueller-indictment-trump-9addef515383/

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During a news conference held to announce the indictment, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein stressed that Mueller’s investigation isn’t over. Nonetheless, Republicans and Trump officials responded to the latest indictment by disingenuously acting as though Trump had been exonerated.

The Republican Party’s Twitter account pretended the latest indictment will be the last one.

“As @realDonaldTrump has been saying all along: No collusion,” they wrote.



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As @realDonaldTrump has been saying all along: No collusion.

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But without naming names, Mueller’s indictment indicates that a longtime Trump adviser, Roger Stone, was in touch with a newly-indicted Russian hacker who went by the online pseudonym Guccifer 2.0 during the summer of 2016. That revelation confirms earlier reporting about Stone’s contacts with Russian hackers.

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