By now, we have a good sense of the playbook Republicans follow when hit with revelations of new Trump administration misdeeds.
First comes the heated denial: That never happened. Then, the qualifications: Okay, maybe something happened, but not the way the media says! Finally, the shifted goal posts: Okay, it happened exactly the way the media says, but really, is that so bad?
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