Trump Now Has a Tax Return Problem *and* a Mueller Problem
Just when he thought he’d ended one headache, two more take its place.
Increasingly isolated.
Photographer: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
One of the toughest of Hercules’ 12 tasks, worse than stable-cleaning and girdle-raiding, was killing the Hydra, a polycephalic beast that grew two new heads every time you cut one off. President Donald Trump must know the feeling.
Just days after claiming to have ended the biggest problem in his presidency, Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian involvement in the 2016 election, that probe is biting him again, and another has joined it. As with many of Trump’s woes, these are all self-created: Tim O’Brien writes Mueller investigators are apparently annoyed that Attorney General William Barr’s take on their report let Trump off the hook — just as Trump hired him to do — and are starting to speak out. This pressures Barr to release the report, which could embarrass the president.