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Trump could persuade voters that this really is a witch hunt

By Philip Wegmann

Published May 23, 2018 5:58pm ET

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Trump could persuade voters that this really is a witch hunt — President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the Iran nuclear deal from the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington. Trump announced the U.S. will pull out of the landmark nuclear accord with Iran, dealing a profound blow to U.S. allies and potentially deepening the president's isolation on the world stage. | (Evan Vucci/AP)

Donald Trump is aggressive, Donald Trump is brazen, and Donald Trump might just convince undecided voters that special counsel Robert Mueller is a partisan hack and that the Russia probe really is a witch hunt.

That’s seems like the calculation coming out of the White House. While the legal strategy has stayed steady, as Jonathan Swan points out at Axios, the public relations campaign to discredit Mueller “is growing slightly larger, and significantly louder.”

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