President Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One on Sunday at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida for Washington. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)Next, more of the same, but with more entrenched division, a bitter crossfire of allegations and then, finally, a reckoning in the form of the 2020 presidential election. Although many Democrats on Sunday renewed their commitment to a wide-ranging investigation of Trump, Mueller’s findings may have complicated their work ahead. “There’s often a blurring of personal, old-fashioned corruption and more serious abuses of executive power in these investigations,” Greenberg said. In past scandals, investigations and a reshaping of popular views of the president have gone hand in hand, historians said.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2019 22:44 UTC