Opinion: The completion of the Mueller report almost guarantees division
By David Ignatius David Ignatius Columnist covering foreign affairs Email Bio Follow Columnist March 5 at 6:41 PM Robert S. Mueller III’s final report should present Congress with a clean choice: Either the facts warrant impeachment of President Trump or they don’t. That was the promise of Mueller’s appointment as special counsel: He would gather the evidence, and then Congress and the public could make a judgment.
The Republicans, meanwhile, are continuing their ruinous campaign to investigate the investigators — further undermining public confidence in the FBI and the intelligence community. Rep. Devin Nunes astonishingly said Sunday on Fox News that without such a “full scrub . . . you’re going to see generations of conservatives who will not trust the Department of Justice, they will not trust the FBI.” That sounded almost like a call to insurrection.
Unfortunately, Trump’s game of chicken with Mueller almost guarantees division rather than unity. Rather than coalesce around Mueller’s findings, partisans are likely to cherry-pick the parts of the report they like and ignore the rest. In this sense, the Mueller report may prove yet another demonstration of what social scientists call “confirmation bias,” in which people accept facts that affirm the views they already hold and screen out the rest.
Think of the falsehoods that have become embedded in the public mind: Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server was a serious felony, punishable by prison; the four Americans killed in Benghazi in 2012 were victims of an Obama administration conspiracy; the Iran nuclear agreement was the “worst deal ever negotiated,” even though it halted a nuclear program; the North American Free Trade Agreement was the “worst trade deal ever made,” even though Trump’s own rewrite made only modest...
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