How long will Republicans continue to defend the president, as evidence of White House criminality mounts?
The context of Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House oversight committee on Wednesday was more important than its content. Cohen established what was already widely suspected: that the president is accused of committing crimes. But the hearing did something else, too: it revealed to a television audience the utter bankruptcy of Trump’s Republican party at the very moment that Republican senators must choose whether or not to uphold Trump’s extraordinary assumption of power under his 15 February declaration of emergency.
Until now, it has been difficult to know what was really going on in the Trump White House. Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is charged with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election but who has uncovered a number of other potential crimes, operates in impressive silence. The grand jury indictments that have produced guilty pleas from Trump’s former campaign chair, his national security adviser, and a slew of other operatives are often confusing.
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