Albert R. Hunt, Columnist

Why It's So Exhausting to Defend Trump

Every time the president's backers respond to one scandal, another one pops up.

January 24, 2018 at 1:00 PM UTC

Albert R. Hunt is a former Bloomberg Opinion columnist. He was the executive editor of Bloomberg News, before which he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor at the Wall Street Journal.

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President Donald Trump's apologists in Congress are learning that defending him is like playing whac-a-mole; every time they think they've knocked down some embarrassing revelation related to the Justice Department probe of Russian election meddling, something new seems to pop up.

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