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With a pattern developing, it is hard for GOP to defend Trumps rookie mistakes
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With a pattern developing, it is hard for GOP to defend Trumps rookie mistakes
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The Post reported special counsel Robert Muellers investigation has moved from the Trump campaign to Trump himself.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images/File 2013
The Post reported special counsel Robert Muellers investigation has moved from the Trump campaign to Trump himself.
By James Pindell Globe Staff June 15, 2017
The explosive report from The Washington Post Wednesday night that special counsel Robert Muellers investigation has moved from the Trump campaign to Trump himself is not only an important turning point as a legal matter, but also as a political one.
Until now, there has been a consistent line among top Republican officials, especially when it came to questions about whether the president obstructed justice by potentially trying to interfere with the investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The line was essentially this: Trump is a rookie and didnt mean anything nefarious.
The presidents new at this. Hes new at government, House Speaker Paul Ryan said last week in response to testimony from former FBI director James Comey. Hes not steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI, and the White House.
The same day, Texas congressman Jodey Arrington summed it up as simply the actions of a rookie politician.
But with each new revelation that Trump reached out to more and more people to pressure them about dropping the matter, it might be harder to defend Trump.
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Yet it was Trump, in an interview with NBC News, who later contradicted his story, saying he fired Comey with the Russia thing on his mind.
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With a pattern developing, it is hard for GOP to defend Trumps rookie mistakes (Original Post)
riversedge
Jun 2017
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tanyev
(42,610 posts)1. You can't blame rookie mistakes when he is willfully going against all the advice he is given.
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)2. This is a 71-year-old guy who had 4,100 lawsuits with his name on them
BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)3. He damn well knows what he is doing. Crazy like a fox.
Sorry, that's an insult to foxes everywhere.