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    Trump's Increasingly Desperate Attacks on Mueller

    The president and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani are back on the offensive against the special counsel, but their newest talking points don’t stand up to scrutiny.
    by David A. Graham Jul 30, 2018 6 minutes
    Source: Andrew Harnik / AP

    The president and his team are on the offensive against Special Counsel Robert Mueller. That’s not new, of course.

    What is new is the tone of the attacks, which have come over the last 24 hours via Donald Trump’s Twitter account and interviews with Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani and Trump sound increasingly desperate, and their talking points are increasingly nonsensical. Giuliani has also resurfaced an old talking point that wasn’t particularly effective before: that collusion with the Russians isn’t a crime. They seem to be throwing everything including the kitchen sink at Mueller and seeing what hits him.

    Although this is a tense moment for Trump legally, Mueller is not the most obvious target. There’s an escalating battle between Trump and Michael Cohen, his former fixer, but that concerns a case in New York that’s separate from the Mueller probe. Starting this week, Mueller’s team will try the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in federal court in Virginia, but

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