As President Trump's attacks on the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference escalate, so does his distance from the facts — and his potential legal jeopardy.
Here are three ways Trump and his allies have been twisting themselves into logical and likely legal knots on Russia lately.
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1. By arguing that collusion is not a crime: Trump and one of his top lawyers, Rudolph W. Giuliani, test-drove this talking point last week. It was a giant step back from the red line Trump has been repeatedly drawing for a year and a half: that there was “No Collusion!”
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2. Acknowledging that Trump Tower meeting's true purpose: It apparently wasn't to talk with a Russian lawyer about Russian adoptions policy, as Trump initially told his son to tell the media. It was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from Russians. Trump confirmed as much directly in a tweet Sunday.
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The problem with that? Getting help from foreigners to win campaigns is illegal.
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3. Calling for the Russia investigation to end: Since what feels like the beginning of time, Trump has made his feelings about the Russia investigation unmistakable.
Last week, the president appeared to go beyond griping when he asked the nation's top law enforcement officer, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to end it. Trump's legal jeopardy there could lie in the interpretation of “should stop” in the tweet below.
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Was he ordering someone who works for him to end an independent investigation that so far seems to have been conducted by the book? Or was he just expressing his opinion, as his spokeswoman said later?
Source Washington Post
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