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From 'Total exoneration!' to 'Impeach now!' – the Mueller report and dueling fact perceptions

  • Written by David C. Barker, Professor of Government and Director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, American University School of Public Affairs
Can a country move ahead when its citizens hold dueling facts? Shutterstock

The Mueller report was supposed to settle, once and for all, the controversy over whether the Trump team colluded with Russians or obstructed justice.

Clearly it has not.

Reactions to the report have ranged from “total exoneration!” to “impeach now!”

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