Politics & Government
Dan Rather On President Trump's 'Art Of The Con'
The Republicans were well aware of Trump's lack of qualifications but looked the other way for the "good" of their party, Rather writes.
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"And now the full cost of [the GOP's] cynicism is coming into frightening focus. The Trump Administration is being buffeted by the most serious criminal investigation since Watergate, and in the end it has the potential to be even more serious and far reaching than that tawdry precedent." (Dan Rather)
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