Mueller testified before Congress. He restated the conclusions of his report. Somehow, in person his reserve became blandness. The story of the United States president ordering a White House lawyer to lie to Congress—the story of the president’s obstruction of justice—sounded ordinary. In fact, it was ordinary. The president had been lying to the public daily for two and a half years. It no longer sounded like an emergency, a high crime. Hopes for impeachment were deflated. The following day, Trump got on the phone with the Ukrainian president and asked him to dig up dirt on the Bidens in
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