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After the Barr hoax, press has no reason to ever believe Trump team again

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  • 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...)
     

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