OPINION: "Mueller reminds us: Facts, and only facts, matter"

News  |  Oct 31, 2017

Jennifer Rubin, who writes the Washington Post's Right Turn blog, explains that while White House spin may be frustrating, it, ultimately, will be immaterial: 

The sober, detailed facts laid out in two indictments covering 12 counts each against former campaign chairman Paul Manafort (the first campaign chief since Watergate to be indicted) and Rick Gates, as well as the plea from former foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos detailing contacts with Russian officials while Papadopoulos was with the campaign (and about which he advised at least three campaign officials) have a way of breaking through the noise and nonsense Trump, his aides and his media enablers whip up. The extended description of Papadopoulos’s conniving to find “dirt” Russians allegedly had on Hillary Clinton shredded the notion that no one colluded with the Russians.

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As infuriating as White House dissembling and Fox News propaganda might be, one can take solace in the reassurance is that none of that matters. What matters are the facts that Mueller meticulously compiles.

Read the whole piece: Mueller reminds us: Facts, and only facts, matter (WaPo)