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Video: Seth Meyers on Those Fired Trump Aides and Officials Who Suffer No Consequences

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Dangerman5/23/2018 10:47:14 am PDT

sad and not really surprising:

Most Americans don’t realize Robert Mueller’s investigation has uncovered crimes (vox)

A majority of Americans — 59 percent — say in a new survey that Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia and the 2016 campaign has not yet uncovered evidence of any crimes, even though in reality, Mueller has already obtained five guilty pleas and 17 criminal indictments.

That suggests that
- the press as a whole has not done a good job of actually conveying factual information to our audience,
- that Democrats’ messaging on the investigation has not been clear enough on the most damning point (Trump, even if otherwise innocent, is guilty of hiring crooks and trying to prevent an investigation into their activity),
- and that Trump’s counterstrategy of muddying the waters around the investigation has been fairly successful.

i separated out the three conclusions for clarity and added the bold