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    The Incompetence Defense

    Republican senators suggest Trump is innocent because he didn’t try very hard to obstruct justice, or because he was bad at it.
    by Adam Serwer Jun 09, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

    During former FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic testimony before the Senate on Thursday, Republican senators settled on a pair of strange arguments for why President Trump hadn’t obstructed justice: He didn’t try very hard, or he was really bad at it.  

    Comey testified that the president asked Comey to shut down the FBI investigation into former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who was ousted after lying about his contact with Russian officials, saying, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go. He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” Comey

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