Trump vs. Mueller: Bill Clinton’s Starr Strategy Meets Twitter
By Andrew C. McCarthy
August 4, 2018 5:30 AM
The Clinton playbook works. But that does not commend it.
President Trump is using an interesting strategy. Interesting, not novel. It is the same “scandalize the prosecutor†strategy that the Clinton camp used against Ken Starr in the 1990s. Far from being condemned back then, it was aided and abetted by the same media-Democrat complex that today clutches its pearls in anguish.
One aspect of this strategy has many legal commentators aghast: the bombastic performance of my old boss, Rudy Giuliani. He has always been brash, but in the role of Trump’s lead lawyer, he no longer seems like the meticulous pro of yesteryear. Thus, he’s been lampooned: a cartoonish figure who can’t keep his story straight. But have you seen the approval polls of the Russia investigation since he took over the president’s defense team? Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe is now viewed unfavorably by 45 percent of Americans, according to a recent Washington Post/George Mason University poll. That’s up markedly from 31 percent at the start of the year.
We’ll come back to that in a second.
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