Putting The Mueller Firing Story in Context

By Josh Marshall

January 26, 2018 11:06 a.m.

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I want to discuss some context to last night’s big revelation about President Trump ordering the firing of Robert Mueller back in June 2017. Let’s start by stipulating, this is a very big deal. But I want to put this in some chronological context because I think the facts we knew about this period of time look quite different with this new information.

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