'Total panic' as 'shell-shocked' White House struggles to find impeachment footing
Source: NBC News
WASHINGTON White House officials were scrambling Thursday to figure out how to counter the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, with one source familiar with the situation describing a sense of total panic over the past week at the lack of a plan to address the new reality.
There appears to be rising anxiety, unease, and concern as one person close to the White House described the mood in the West Wing that the whistleblowers allegations could seriously wound the president and some of those around him. Theres not a lot of confidence that theres no there there, this person said.
White House officials remained unsure of how to proceed, not only because there is no apparent plan to deal with the situation, but because the allegations are so serious that the usual methods the president has used to successfully escape past controversies may not apply: This doesnt look like something thats going to be overtaken by the next news cycle, the person said.
Another person familiar with the discussions described the mood inside the White House as shell-shocked, with increasing wariness that, as this impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that the president could respond erratically and become unmanageable.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/total-panic-shell-shocked-white-house-struggles-find-impeachment-footing-n1059251
tblue37
(65,340 posts)but really can't be.
no_hypocrisy
(46,088 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Must be a real delight to wake up next to her in the morning.
lastlib
(23,222 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)SallyHemmings
(1,821 posts)This should only expedite his departure.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... he won't be able to control himself, and those that would offer a steady and guiding hand have all departed or been fired.
Trump is a listing ship, with no sails, that's headed directly into the rocks, in the middle of a storm.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)only emphasizes that Trump is an unstable menace and a clear and present danger apart from his impeachable offenses involving Ukraine.
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)We know he will because he already is.
madaboutharry
(40,209 posts)Apparently the staffers at The White House are just figuring that out!
shraby
(21,946 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)No plan at all! That is how confident he is in his superiority. He thought he would have smooth sailing right through the elections and Barr did his job like a good lap dog.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)I wonder if anyone who characterized Nancy and the party as being the "real scandal" are now sorry for having said that.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)murielm99
(30,736 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)"I DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THIS YOU KNOW!!!!!!"
Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)He never saw it coming? Really? The most corrupt and cruelest president in American history followed a pattern of burying evidence, while overloading the news cycle with the next new normal, and it didn't occur to him that someone was busy writing down the details that would one day make a hell of a whistle blower complaint.
What does that say about the environment that has allowed him to operate in this fashion for so long? Donald Trump brought business ethics into our government, and someone just served him his ass on a platter.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)It is no surprise to me that he lacks the self-awareness and contextual awareness to recognize the position he's put himself in.
Baitball Blogger
(46,703 posts)gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)tanyev
(42,552 posts)Lulu KC
(2,565 posts)SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)Nope, no can do. Not happening.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)The two top advisors have no ideas? I hope Barr, Pence, Guilliani and Mulvaney go down along with the orange ass.
Pluvious
(4,310 posts)And securing offshore booty caches and bolt holes.
chowder66
(9,067 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)theyre not real government officials - except when they can use their positions to freeload off the American people
But,yeah - where are they? Saudi Arabia? Azerbiajian? Venezuela? Why arent they standing by Dear Old Dad in his hour of need?
Xolodno
(6,390 posts)...when the heat starts getting up there. It's almost they don't want to be associated with him when the "brand" may get tarnished.
skypilot
(8,853 posts)When simply telling the truth won't work.
Javaman
(62,521 posts)aka benedict donald can't lie his way out of it.
zooks
(308 posts)thx, needed that
NCjack
(10,279 posts)reassessing their likelihood of getting Trump pardons. The info they can sell is depreciating, and when Trump's impeachment occurs, their info will be of little value.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)...pardons to stick it to our side and because he can, at the
last moment he can.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)BluNoMatterHu
(31 posts)Now they're getting a taste of how we've felt as a nation having them in charge. Anxiety, Unease, and Concern! It's only going to get worse for them and better for us.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,583 posts)God, I hate being right.
gopiscrap
(23,758 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Been declared winner. I could not sleep that night and have been anxious since.
SharonAnn
(13,772 posts)Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)those supposedly reported to have known about the transcript and of putting it on an extremely secure server.
If I were in that position and my name was paged, I'd probably wet my pants. Just the thought of being suspected of being the one who passed on the information to the whistleblower would keep me awake at night...or, finding the funds to buy a ticket to Siam.
SWBTATTReg
(22,114 posts)who in their right mind would, after the way rump has already gone through tons of lawyers too, some of whom said that he wouldn't listen to their advice, etc. He's going to dig a hole so deep, that one could fly through to China...
eggplant
(3,911 posts)It's still being measured in days. I don't think that qualifies as dragging out yet.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Chump and his people had advance knowledge, long before it came to the attention of Adam Schiff or the Speaker of the House. And yet, as everything starts tumbling, how did Chump use that extra two months? He played a lot of golf and tweeted. That's how.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)Squeeze that rotted orange until it pops and whatever passes for a soul oozes out. I really think we can make Trump have a psychotic breakdown.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Pretty much a psychotic breakdown.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)Where do I find that?
Pluvious
(4,310 posts)It's on the homepage now
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017554109
DeeNice
(575 posts)It's not like there wasn't a whole parade of red flags going in...
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)...And staff filled with anxiety, unease, and concern
ie... a normal Friday in the Trump White House... or any other day ending in Y...
murielm99
(30,736 posts)like this about Obama? Or even Dubya?
What kind of leader becomes erratic or unmanageable? Other than Hitler?
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)choke on a pretzel or fall off his bike. Even when Reagan had Alzheimers, hed just fall asleep in cabinet meetings or confuse his old movies with actual history. Not that either of them werent terrible presidents, but not batshit insane.
KPN
(15,643 posts)is that, at some point, there is always a genuine patriot who has the goods and decides to come forward.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)that is why the WH is scrambling, like rats ready to jump ship.
4139
(1,893 posts)Grins
(7,217 posts)...that the whistleblowers allegations could seriously wound the president AND SOME OF THOSE AROUND HIM.
Country be damned. Oh, well, as their boss once told the widow of a soldier, He knew what he was volunteering for...