'Mueller Is Coming For Trump' [Opinion Of The Day]

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Mark Joseph Stern: Mueller Is Coming For Trump

"The special counsel’s expanding probe will reveal loads of dirt from the president’s financial past—making the temptation to fire him even greater." (Slate)

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The Washington Times: A shooting war on Republicans

"Trump Derangement Syndrome leads to the obsession that every ill and annoyance of life is the work of Donald Trump, a traitor out to betray the nation to its enemies. Millions of Democrats, disappointed with the results of the 2016 elections, have built their lives around despising the president. It isn’t healthy for the republic, it isn’t healthy for those afflicted and it won’t be healthy for those who die at the hands of assassins." (The Washington Times)

Frank Bruni: The Mortification of Jeff Sessions

"For all Trump’s career and all his campaign, he played the part of Midas, claiming that everything he touched turned to gold. That was never true. This is: Almost everyone who touches him is tarnished, whether testifying or not." (The New York Times)

Joan Walsh: 3 Troubling Questions Jeff Sessions Will Have to Answer on Tuesday

"Republicans show no interest in impeaching anyone, but Democrats might want to bone up on how to impeach an attorney general if Sessions continues to dodge their questions and change his stories." (The Nation)

The New York Times: It’s the Olympics for Trump Apologists

"There was a day when Republicans like Mr. Ryan derided President Barack Obama as inexperienced. If Mr. Obama had fired an F.B.I. director who was leading an investigation of his associates — he didn’t, and there was never any such investigation — can you imagine Mr. Ryan treating the action as a learning experience?" (The New York Times)

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