Whatever the Department of Justice’s long-awaited Inspector General’s report says today, the administration and its allies will likely seize on it as vindication. President Trump has been laying the groundwork for that maneuver for weeks. It’s his 72nd birthday today, and, he said last week, the report will make “a nice birthday present.”
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