Timothy L. O'Brien, Columnist

The Senate Report on Trump and Russia Is a Triumph for Truth

Here are welcome facts on the president’s connections with 2016 election meddling.

August 18, 2020 at 9:55 PM UTC

Timothy L. O'Brien is senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion. A former editor and reporter for the New York Times, he is author of “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald.”

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One of Trumpism’s enduring scars will be the social fissures it’s widened by waging war on objective reality and public faith in bedrock institutions. It’s also fostered a cult of personality around Donald Trump, allowing him to posture as the final arbiter of truth and guardian of the downtrodden. But division, chaos and disrepair — and the corruption of the American experiment — are the long-term consequences.

So it’s encouraging when a bipartisan group of federal legislators reminds us that facts matter.