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First Thoughts on Today’s Indictments

February 16, 2018 at 2:45 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was clear in what the 13 Russians indicted today were up to: “They wanted to promote discord in the United States and undermine public confidence in the democracy.”

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