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TRUMP IS FREAKING OUT! Mueller has him in his crosshairs. Including his company and his kids. 17 SEPARATE investigations yield mountains of crimes. Many chargeable. His businesses are going down the tubes with each new revelation of his past. The NY FEDS are putting his balls in a vise at the state level and are indicting and trying his inner circle. (And the DEMOCRATS haven't even started yet). And the 'grownup in the room' resigned today with a scathing rebuke. The grownup resigned because TRUMP unilaterally and RECKLESSLY tore the foundation out of a PRECARIOUSLY held together military effort in 2 countries.
SO TRUMP is hunkered down, watching hours of FOX, sending messages out to Rush Limbaugh while his country melts down. He is left throwing shit against the wall to see if anything will stick to DIVERT ATTENTION and to desperately try to shore up his base! He has no plans so he is willing to put the country and the markets in a tailspin over the WALL since there is NO FUCKING WAY MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT and his own party refuses to make the taxpayers pay for it. (Talk about all kinds of SAD IRONY).
‘A tailspin’: Under siege, Trump propels the government and markets into crisis
President Trump arrives Thursday to speak during a bill-signing ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Philip Rucker , Robert Costa and Josh Dawsey
December 20 at 8:40 PM
President Trump began Thursday under siege, listening to howls of indignation from conservatives over his border wall and thrusting the government toward a shutdown. He ended it by announcing the exit of the man U.S. allies see as the last guardrail against the president’s erratic behavior: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whose resignation letter was a scathing rebuke of Trump’s worldview.
At perhaps the most fragile moment of his presidency — and vulnerable to convulsions on the political right — Trump single-handedly propelled the U.S. government into crisis and sent markets tumbling with his gambits this week to salvage signature campaign promises.
The president’s decisions and conduct have led to a fracturing of Trump’s coalition. Hawks condemned his sudden decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Conservatives called him a “gutless president” and questioned whether he would ever build a wall. Political friends began privately questioning whether Trump needed to be reined in.
After campaigning on shrinking America’s footprint in overseas wars, Trump abruptly declared Wednesday that he was withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria, a move Mattis and other advisers counseled against. And officials said Thursday that Trump is preparing to send thousands of troops home from Afghanistan, as well.
The president also issued an ultimatum to Congress to fund construction of his promised U.S.-Mexico border wall, a move poised to result in a government shutdown just before Christmas. Trump and his aides had signaled tacit support for a short-term spending compromise that would avert the shutdown, but the president abruptly changed course after absorbing a deluge of criticism from some of his most high-profile loyalists.
Leon Panetta, who served as defense secretary, CIA director and White House chief of staff for Democratic presidents, said, “We’re in a constant state of chaos right now in this country.” He added, “While it may satisfy [Trump’s] need for attention, it’s raising hell with the country.”
Panetta said the resignation of Mattis is a singular moment and that his letter, which underscores how Mattis sees Trump’s approach as misguided, “puts the security of the nation right now at some degree of risk.”
Trump has been isolated in bunker mode in recent weeks as political and personal crises mount, according to interviews with 27 current and former White House officials, Republican lawmakers, and outside advisers to the president, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer candid assessments...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.e14692fdc4de
TRUMP IS FREAKING OUT! Mueller has him in his crosshairs. Including his company and his kids. 17 SEPARATE investigations yield mountains of crimes. Many chargeable. His businesses are going down the tubes with each new revelation of his past. The NY FEDS are putting his balls in a vise at the state level and are indicting and trying his inner circle. (And the DEMOCRATS haven't even started yet). And the 'grownup in the room' resigned today with a scathing rebuke. The grownup resigned because TRUMP unilaterally and RECKLESSLY tore the foundation out of a PRECARIOUSLY held together military effort in 2 countries.
SO TRUMP is hunkered down, watching hours of FOX, sending messages out to Rush Limbaugh while his country melts down. He is left throwing shit against the wall to see if anything will stick to DIVERT ATTENTION and to desperately try to shore up his base! He has no plans so he is willing to put the country and the markets in a tailspin over the WALL since there is NO FUCKING WAY MEXICO WILL PAY FOR IT and his own party refuses to make the taxpayers pay for it. (Talk about all kinds of SAD IRONY).
“There’s going to be an intervention,” one former senior administration official said speculatively.
“Jim Mattis just sent a shot across the bow. He’s the most credible member of the administration
by five grades of magnitude. He’s the steady, safe set of hands. And this letter is brutal.
He quit because of the madness.”
On Thursday, as criticism over his capitulation on the wall grew louder by the hour, Trump complained
to friends and aides that he felt politically shackled. He had no plan but was spoiling for a fight.
By midday, the president picked one.
“Jim Mattis just sent a shot across the bow. He’s the most credible member of the administration
by five grades of magnitude. He’s the steady, safe set of hands. And this letter is brutal.
He quit because of the madness.”
On Thursday, as criticism over his capitulation on the wall grew louder by the hour, Trump complained
to friends and aides that he felt politically shackled. He had no plan but was spoiling for a fight.
By midday, the president picked one.
‘A tailspin’: Under siege, Trump propels the government and markets into crisis
President Trump arrives Thursday to speak during a bill-signing ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Philip Rucker , Robert Costa and Josh Dawsey
December 20 at 8:40 PM
President Trump began Thursday under siege, listening to howls of indignation from conservatives over his border wall and thrusting the government toward a shutdown. He ended it by announcing the exit of the man U.S. allies see as the last guardrail against the president’s erratic behavior: Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, whose resignation letter was a scathing rebuke of Trump’s worldview.
At perhaps the most fragile moment of his presidency — and vulnerable to convulsions on the political right — Trump single-handedly propelled the U.S. government into crisis and sent markets tumbling with his gambits this week to salvage signature campaign promises.
The president’s decisions and conduct have led to a fracturing of Trump’s coalition. Hawks condemned his sudden decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Conservatives called him a “gutless president” and questioned whether he would ever build a wall. Political friends began privately questioning whether Trump needed to be reined in.
After campaigning on shrinking America’s footprint in overseas wars, Trump abruptly declared Wednesday that he was withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria, a move Mattis and other advisers counseled against. And officials said Thursday that Trump is preparing to send thousands of troops home from Afghanistan, as well.
Leon Panetta, who served as defense secretary, CIA director and White House chief of staff for Democratic presidents, said, “We’re in a constant state of chaos right now in this country.” He added, “While it may satisfy [Trump’s] need for attention, it’s raising hell with the country.”
Panetta said the resignation of Mattis is a singular moment and that his letter, which underscores how Mattis sees Trump’s approach as misguided, “puts the security of the nation right now at some degree of risk.”
Trump has been isolated in bunker mode in recent weeks as political and personal crises mount, according to interviews with 27 current and former White House officials, Republican lawmakers, and outside advisers to the president, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer candid assessments...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...aa5c2fcc9e4_story.html?utm_term=.e14692fdc4de
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