Opinion: Trump is floundering disastrously on multiple fronts. Stop pretending he’s in control.
President Trump speaks to members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One on Friday. By Greg Sargent Greg Sargent Opinion writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Opinion writer April 5 at 10:33 AM Because so many of us got it so wrong in 2016, there’s a tendency among many commentators to reflexively assume President Trump possesses some kind of hidden sway over the political environment that we’re all missing.
Yet now new reports have badly damaged that story line by revealing that some of Robert S. Mueller III’s investigators say Attorney General William P. Barr’s letter underplayed just how damaging their findings really are for Trump — and that they prepared summaries of their findings, expressly for public release, that Barr did not divulge.
Trump than rapidly backed down on that promise, vowing Republicans would offer a plan once they won the 2020 elections — which ensured those elections will be all about health care, again unleashing great consternation among them. We also know from previous reporting that Mulvaney and others manipulated Trump into believing that if the lawsuit does wipe out the law, Trump and Republicans can heroically step in with their own plan. Trump publicly echoed this view by saying, “The Republican Party will soon become known as the party of health care.”
— Donald J. Trump April 5, 2019 Trump will probably get around to this after compelling Mexico to pay for his wall.The serious point here is that all this is happening for the same reason the health care mess happened: There’s an enormous gap between what Trump thinks his base wants — toughness and threats, or really action of any kind — and policy reality.
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