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Commentary: It's Trump who is attacking 'all we stand for'

"It's an attack on our country in a true sense. It's an attack on all we stand for."

Donald Trump's statement Monday, the central assertion in an unsettled tirade he launched into upon hearing that the office, home and hotel room of his attorney, Michael Cohen, were searched by the FBI, is the most perfectly wrongheaded comment of the entire Trump presidency.

It eclipses even his notorious assertion "I have the absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department."

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