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Trump’s illegitimacy

Trump’s Miss Universe gambit: For years, he used his beauty pageants to boost business interests abroad — a 2013 contest, in Moscow, may also have helped give him the presidency. Reckoning with Trump’s illegitimacy: It is wildly plausible that the crimes of Russian interference tipped the election to Donald Trump. Trump has not directed the FBI to address Russian meddling in 2018. It’s clear: Donald Trump welcomes Russia’s subversion of our democracy. Is Donald Trump a traitor? Americans must live with the uncertainty of not knowing whether Trump has the best interests of the United States or those of Russia at heart.

Neal Katyal and Kenneth Starr on a better way to protect Mueller. D.R. Tucker on the moral necessity of impeaching Trump (and part 2). Quinta Jurecic on how institutions can’t save America from Trump.