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The recent column by Armstrong Williams bears a bit of scrutiny (“Armstrong Williams: The rotten core of a manufactured scandal,”<\/a> July 22). He parrots the Trump administration’s claims that former President Barack Obama orchestrated what President Donald Trump likes to call the Russia hoax.<\/p>\n

These allegations are, of course, meant to deflect attention from Trump’s friendship with the sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein. Yet the 2019 report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III that Williams cites clearly finds that Russia did attempt to influence that election in favor of Trump. Williams claims Russia’s attempts had no effect on the outcome. That’s pretty difficult to assess, but what’s important is that they did interfere, a point Williams deems unimportant.<\/p>\n

The columnist also quotes the late Justice Antonin Scalia who said, \u201cA government of laws, and not of men, means that our rulers are bound by the law, just as the governed are.\u201d Somehow he avoids mentioning that the Trump administration has defied court rulings including from the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Williams writes: “This is not a conspiracy theory. This is the documented history of the modern American state.” Except there is no documentation. There are only allegations by a president who has told, on average over the four years of his first presidency, 20 lies each and every day. And that is documented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Gazurian, Baltimore<\/p>\n

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Columnist ignores substance of special counsel’s inquiry into Russian interference in 2016 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":11573685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-26T13:10:58Z","apple_news_api_id":"4aaa2f36-8700-44f5-83ae-399384d6d019","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-26T13:10:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ASqovNocARPWDrjmThNbQGQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"subheadline":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[96],"tags":[193],"feature":[],"location":[],"type-of-work":[],"coauthors":[24449],"class_list":["post-11573752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-readers-respond"],"post_status":"","edit_last":0,"edit_lock":0,"highlights":"","original_byline":"","original_canonical":"","original_category":"","original_email":"","original_id":0,"original_pubdate":"","original_source":"","primary_section":"96","primary_tag":193,"print_workflow_body":{"deck_headline":"","print_title":"","print_subheadline":"","print_priority":"","print_placement":"cover","print_planned_ready":"","print_pub_date":"","print_slug":"TBS-L-MUELLER2-0723","print_content":"","print_budget_line":"","print_excerpt":"","print_notes":"","photo_limits":"Photo limits are: 1 featured image, 5 featured gallery images, 5 embedded gallery images and 5 in-article embedded images. 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