Trump's personal attorney, Don McGahn, threatened to quit in the spring of 2017 after Trump urged him to "do crazy shit," like fire Mueller.
White House communications director Hope Hicks wanted to disclose that Russians had offered Don Jr. information helpful to the campaign. But the president refused, explicitly ordering Hicks to issue a statement that covered up the true purpose of the Trump Tower meeting.Magically, Barr failed to include all of that in his March 24 press release, a document which seemed solely designed to mislead journalists. It worked for a while. Now, recent events should mark an obvious turning point for the press.
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Eric Boehlert is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush (Free Press, 2006). He worked for five years as a senior writer for Salon.com, where he wrote extensively about media and politics. Prior to that, he worked as a (more...)