The Mueller report has settled a great mystery of the Trump era — but only one, writes blakehounshell. There are many aspects of Trump's behavior toward Russia, both as a candidate and as president, that remain baffling
That’s the clear interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings, at least as they were conveyed Sunday by Attorney General William Barr. And it’s the line President Donald Trump’s gloating defenders are promoting.But without access to Mueller’s full report, we can’t know just how damning—or not—this investigation is for Trump.
Maybe former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, for instance, was simply trying to repay his multimillion dollar debt to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska when he passed internal polling numbers to his former business partner, Konstantin Kilimnik.
We should all be aware of the dangers of confirmation bias, the bad habit of interpreting evidence to fit our pre-cooked conclusions. That’s been a major peril of the Russiagate story, and I’m sure I’ve been guilty of it on occasion. News outlets have hyped and torqued up stories about purported links between Trump and Russia that have evaporated on close inspection.
There are two common threads here. One is that Trump covets the power these authoritarian leaders exert over their own societies, and he hasn’t been shy about saying so. The second is that he is desperate for a big diplomatic win, be it some sort of great-power compact with Russia, the end of North Korea’s nuclear program or a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
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