Virginia Heffernan: No quid, no quo, but we get the message
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2019
3 minutes
When the White House released a rough transcript of President Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the display of fake transparency brought to mind another bit of administration showmanship: the goony maneuver performed by Attorney General William Barr on March 24, as he big-footed the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Barr laughably declared that the special counsel's findings showed "no collusion" between Trump and the Kremlin. Of course, as Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) later showed, the report actually chronicled a rampage of small-c collusion, not to
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