What the Mueller memo says — and doesn't say

The new information revealed explicitly in the memo itself was not obviously damning. But what we already knew is bad enough. And there's more to come.

Robert Mueller.

One thing has been very predictable about American politics over the last two years: When President Trump wakes up and misplaces his mind on Twitter like some street-corner LaRouchie, it's often because something very, very bad for him is about to be made public. So when Trump started in with his drunk-getting-ejected-from-a-bar routine on Twitter Friday morning, it was a surefire sign that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation was about to ruin the president's evening.

Trump fired off seven caterwauling tweets about the probe, claiming absurdly that Mueller and former FBI Director James Comey were "best friends," and deploying his usual mix of bluster ("We will be doing a major Counter Report to the Mueller Report") and look-over-thereism ("Will the corruption within the DNC and Clinton Campaign be exposed?"). It's a sign of how inured we have become to the Trump administration that the president having a public emotional meltdown before lunch is just business as usual in D.C. Totally normal.

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David Faris

David Faris is an associate professor of political science at Roosevelt University and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. He is a frequent contributor to Informed Comment, and his work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and Indy Week.