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Wed May 29, 2019, 05:08 PM May 2019

It's Up to Congress Now

It’s Up to Congress Now

May 29, 2019 at 2:22 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 53 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/29/its-up-to-congress-now/

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David Frum: “The full report is rich with details. But that’s the essence. A foreign power interfered in the U.S. election to help the Trump campaign. The Trump campaign welcomed the help and repeatedly lied about it. The lying successfully obscured some questions the investigation sought to answer; in the end, it found insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy. President Trump, in public and in private, worked to stop the investigation.”

“Those are the facts. What are the remedies? Mueller underscored at his press statement: He did not exonerate the president. Under the Department of Justice rules he was subject to, he lacked the power to act.”

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