Noah Feldman, Columnist

Trump Has Already Won the Memo Wars

The president's goal is to paint the Russian investigation as political. The House Intelligence Committee is helping.

February 5, 2018 at 9:58 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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The Democrats are right to press for the release of their own House Intelligence Committee memo to counteract the Republican memo about the Russia investigation that was released to great fanfare last week.

But the truth is, it doesn’t much matter what the Democrats’ memo says. President Donald Trump has already won this round, even though the Republican memo wasn’t earth-shaking.