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struggle4progress

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Wed Jul 12, 2017, 12:18 PM Jul 2017

Republicans stand by him [View all]

By David Weigel July 11 at 6:37 PM

... As Republican senators moved around the Capitol .. they were asked .. whether emails released by .. Jr. revealed collusion between Russian interlopers and his father’s 2016 presidential campaign.

... they shrugged.

“That’s the very thing that we need to not be distracted by,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.). “He’s not given any particular assignment in the administration,” said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) ...

Rush Limbaugh told listeners that he was “watching people lose their minds” because “they’ve got nothing.” On “Fox and Friends,” a morning show that the president watches regularly, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Trump attorney Jay Sekulow if 2016 campaign veterans could vet themselves and release any more information about meetings with Russians, “so this drip-drip-drip doesn’t fuel other haters” ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/tested-by-the-many-chapters-of-the-russia-story-republicans-stand-by-trump/2017/07/11/3bc1983c-665c-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html?utm_term=.54799b335d9f

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