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Trump’s Strategy Is to Limit and Attack Investigators

May 21, 2018 at 8:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Frustrated and impatient, fed up with waiting and eager to fight back, President Trump has embarked on what amounts to a two-prong strategy to contain the threat and undercut the credibility of the escalating investigations targeting him and his associates,” the New York Times reports.

“The blizzard of Twitter messages combined with a string of public statements by his attorney, RudyGiuliani, in recent days seemed aimed at turning the focus away from the conduct of the president or his team to that of their pursuers while laying out a series of red lines to limit the reach and duration of the primary inquiry.”

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