Philip Bump: “President Trump has benefited enormously from the frog-in-hot-water nature of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign and possible overlap with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.”
“America has been waiting for Mueller to present a document that ties all of this together — eager, in part, for evidence proving the president’s guilt, or exonerating him, on charges that he and his campaign worked with the Russians. As people have awaited the outcome, the slow accretion of malfeasance that Mueller has already uncovered has faded into background noise. It has allowed Trump to lump every new revelation into a big snowball labeled ‘no collusion,’ parroting the same refrain as the snowball grows. Meanwhile his opponents, waiting for a smoking gun, are happy to keep looking forward as well.”