Russia Baggage to Follow Republicans Into 2018 Elections
- Indictment, plea deal of Trump camp officials cloud election
- Democrats pounce on news to say they will protect Mueller
Russia Investigations: Connecting the Dots
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The indictment of two of President Donald Trump’s former campaign officials carries bad news for Republicans in Congress: now they know that investigations of Russian election meddling won’t end before their own 2018 re-election campaigns kick into gear.
Perhaps as troubling for Republicans is the news that a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible collusion between the campaign and Russians who sought to influence the election.