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E.J. Dionne: Republicans make it clear that they are lying about Trump’s innocence

Washington * President Trump and his Republican apologists -- including his defense lawyer who moonlights as the nation’s attorney general -- do not believe a single word they have said about former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report. The GOP has claimed that it shows “no collusion, no obstruction.” But their behavior at Wednesday’s hearings, not to mention Mueller’s own words, prove they have been lying.

Because the report does not and never did say what Trump and his band of servile attendants claim it says, Trump himself started sending out his nuke-Mueller marching orders to Republicans at 6:50 a.