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    Trump’s Twitter Attacks Are Backfiring

    President Trump seems eager to divert attention from impeachment and investigations, but distractions work only if they distract.
    by David A. Graham Jul 29, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: J. Scott Applewhite / AP

    If former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony to the House last week wasn’t the clear victory that many Democrats had hoped it would be, there are indications it didn’t go as well for President Donald Trump as he and his allies have claimed either.

    The first evidence came on Friday afternoon, when the president gave a series of nonsensical sound bites to reporters, saying that Barack Obama had ruined the White House HVAC system and calling for an investigation of how Obama, the author of a critically acclaimed memoir and a former president of

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