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The Trailer: The GOP embraces the Trumpian ‘what about’ pivot

Trump sits with, from right, Paula Jones, Kathy Shelton, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey before a 2016. Credit: Evan Vucci, AP

We’re still talking about the Clintons, and this is The Trailer.

Two years ago, hours after the release of audio from an “Access Hollywood” taping appeared to do fatal damage to Donald Trump’s presidential bid, the candidate released a video statement that hinted at how he’d pull through.

“Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims,” Trump said. “We will discuss this more in the coming days.”

He made sure of that. Trump’s campaign invited several women who had accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to the second presidential debate, and the candidate held a news conference beside them and brought them to the debate itself.

 

The Republicans’ Fake Investigations

The following op-ed commentary by Glenn R. Simpson and Peter Fritsch was posted on the New York Times website January 2, 2018:

Credit: Credit Harry Campbell

A generation ago, Republicans sought to protect President Richard Nixon by urging the Senate Watergate committee to look at supposed wrongdoing by Democrats in previous elections. The committee chairman, Sam Ervin, a Democrat, said that would be “as foolish as the man who went bear hunting and stopped to chase rabbits.”

Today, amid a growing criminal inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, congressional Republicans are again chasing rabbits. We know because we’re their favorite quarry. Continue reading “The Republicans’ Fake Investigations”