Balance of Power: Trump’s Legal Peril Deepens
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The shooting of a top Republican lawmaker on a suburban baseball diamond is the kind of shocking event that normally would galvanize Washington for weeks, even months. It barely lasted a day. Because the day ended, as so many do now, with ever-deepening legal peril for Donald Trump.
Special counsel Robert Mueller has expanded the scope of his Russia-meddling investigation to focus on a key question: whether the president tried to enlist top U.S. intelligence officials to urge the FBI to ease up on the Michael Flynn probe, Bloomberg’s Chris Strohm reports.