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'Chaos' Is At The Heart Of The Trump Camp's Defense. But It Can Cut Both Ways

Campaign aides and administration officials have said the 2016 campaign was so frantic things happened almost too fast to consider. Does that strengthen their case in the Russia investigations?
Attorney General Jeff Sessions waits for the beginning of a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on November 14, 2017, on Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump's campaign was frenzied and frantic, people at the top have said — descriptions that could be highly consequential for the White House and to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.

For former campaign officials who've come into the administration, the descriptions of their work last year are meant not only to strengthen their denials regarding collusion with the Russian government in attacking the election, but also to emphasize how much of a miracle it was they made it through.

"It was a brilliant campaign, I think, in many ways, but it was a form of recently. "We traveled some times to several places in one day. Sleep was in short supply and I was still a full-time senator with a very full schedule."

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