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Tribune editorial: Ghorbani will do more for Utah and less for Trump

He once called him “our Mussolini,” but Chris Stewart has learned to love President Trump. That has made it harder for Utahns in the 2nd Congressional District to love Chris Stewart.

No Utahn in the U.S. House of Representatives has been more Trump-friendly over the past two years. Stewart was all in on the House Intelligence Committee’s highly politicized “investigation” of Russian meddling in our elections and Chairman Devin Nunes’ repeated attempts to turn it into an investigation of the FBI for being too Democrat-friendly. As a member of the committee, Stewart was reluctant to even admit the Russians wanted Trump to win.