ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Ken Starr released his famous report on Bill Clinton in 1998, the embattled president couldn’t move on fast enough. An estimated 20 million Americans tore through the independent counsel’s findings, laid out in a 445-page document that contained sordid, voyeuristic details about Clinton’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and argued forcefully for his impeachment. Two days later, Clinton offered a tearful apology and claimed he had been ‘on quite a journey to get to the end of this.’ He rarely discussed the report’s findings after that. Enter Donald Trump. In the days since special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference was made public, the 45th president has shown no inclination to adopt Clinton’s strategy. His Twitter feed has lit up each morning with angry posts about Mueller’s conclusions (‘total bullshit,’ he said of the report a day after its release) — more than 50 tweets on the subject since the findings went public, along with scores of retweets. He’s ripped into congressional Democrats for subpoenaing an unredacted version of the report and its underlying investigatory materials.”
–Gabby Orr and Caitlin Oprysko, “’He needs to let it go’: Trump’s allies urge him to shut up about Mueller,” Politico, April 25, 2019 9:02 am