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struggle4progress

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Thu Jun 15, 2017, 05:27 PM Jun 2017

Doesn't get the special counsel investigation

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 1:47 PM ET, Thu June 15, 2017

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump has, throughout his life, had one setting when it comes to stories he doesn't like: Attack, pivot, declare victory ...

It's worked remarkably well for Trump. And so it shouldn't be all that surprising that he's brought that blueprint to Washington with him.

Except that the White House -- and the political and legal worlds it touches -- isn't the same thing that Trump is used to facing ...

But this investigation isn't anything like what Trump has faced before. He can't simply say this is all a "witch hunt" or a "hoax" and have it disappear ... The investigation will proceed no matter what Trump says about it or who involved in it he calls names. It will also, eventually, reach some conclusions about the nature of Russia's hacking of the election and whether or not there was any collusion in that effort by any member of the Trump campaign ...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/15/politics/trump-tabloid-russia/index.html

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