Trump is not safe from Mueller. Not by a long shot.

Does the president understand the danger he's in with the Russia investigation?

President Donald Trump.
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For pretty much the entire time that he has been president, Donald Trump has been almost obsessed with telling anyone who'll listen that he is not personally under investigation in the Russia scandal. "I know that I'm not under investigation," he said in May. "I'm not under investigation, as you know," he said in November. "I'm not under investigation," he said in January. "Maybe Hillary is, I don't know, but I'm not." When he fired FBI Director James Comey, the letter he wrote thanked Comey for "informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation." Just so it's clear.

But President Trump is most certainly under investigation.

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Paul Waldman

Paul Waldman is a senior writer with The American Prospect magazine and a blogger for The Washington Post. His writing has appeared in dozens of newspapers, magazines, and web sites, and he is the author or co-author of four books on media and politics.