This new report on Trump's state of mind should alarm you
This new report on Trumps state of mind should alarm you
By Greg Sargent March 19 at 9:09 AM
sargentg@washpost.com
THE MORNING PLUM:
We cannot know for sure why President Trump unleashed a volley of attacks over the weekend on special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. Perhaps he is edging toward an effort to remove him. Or perhaps he is not the White House last night insisted he isnt and is instead merely trying to tar the Mueller probe in the minds of his voters, in preparation for dismissing any Mueller findings of serious misconduct as illegitimate. ... But heres what we do know: Most Republicans failed to seize this occasion to send a clear signal that any effort to remove Mueller will be met with serious consequences.
A new report on Trumps state of mind from the New York Times underscores why this should worry us a great deal. Relying on numerous people close to Trump, it says he decided to attack Mueller over the advice of his advisers because he ultimately trusts only his own instincts, with the result that Trump is newly emboldened to ignore the cautions of those around him.
For months, aides were mostly able to redirect a neophyte president with warnings about the consequences of his actions, and mostly control his public behavior, the Times says. But some of his recent actions his decisions to go ahead with tariffs and a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have persuaded him that such warnings are overblown. Make sure not to miss this sentence:
Warnings of dire consequences from his critics have failed to materialize.
This helps explain why Trump unleashed his fury on Mueller over the weekend. In a tweet storm that was full of lies see Glenn Kesslers takedown of the specifics Trump claimed that law enforcement is riddled with corruption and that the Mueller probe itself is illegitimate. To make this latter claim, Trump floated the intertwined falsehoods that the Democratic-funded Steele dossier triggered the probe (a lie) and that there was no legit basis for its genesis (also a lie).
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Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog, a reported opinion blog with a liberal slant -- what you might call opinionated reporting from the left. Follow @theplumlinegs
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)he took lead in the Republican nomination.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Would be nice to see him running around White House lawn stark naked and yelling nonsense.
Butterflylady
(3,557 posts)GReedDiamond
(5,319 posts)...describe the scenario of Twitler "running around White House lawn stark naked..," but I get your point.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Because he can't bully Mueller around or threaten him. He also doesn't know what all he's gotten on him. If he fires him he'll have everything become exposed , and he and his family will be in serious trouble at once. He's dug his hole so deep he is in serious troubles. Mueller and many others knew this time would come, and are set up to easily handle this career criminal. Within a week or so we'll see things unfold a lot more i think, and that's why trump is acting so buggy, he's guilty of it all, and its getting really close to him now.
rock
(13,218 posts)Clearly made case that trump did not have a temperament that fitted the presidency. You should have heard the squawk from trump's side!
BigmanPigman
(51,673 posts)or do a load of laundry.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)Nitram
(22,971 posts)He has always gone through periods of relative calm in between outbursts that have put him or the country in danger, starting with blurting out that the real reason he fired Comey was the Russian investigation. Trump cannot be contained.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)But Trump is just as likely to threaten the guy on his home turf as he is to make some kind of peace that works for all sides.