President Trump is trying to follow Bill Clinton's template for surviving impeachment by focusing on his agenda. So far, it has been a struggle.
. Both moves drew sharp rebukes from fellow Republicans.
According to a person familiar with the conversation, the senators told the White House that Trump’s plan to host the G-7 at his financially-troubled Doral golf resort, near Miami, would likely lead to an impeachment article for violating the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause, one some said they might support. Shortly afterward,After the lunch, Sen.
“I did not mean to leave some with the impression the White House needed to hire a new team to handle impeachment,” he tweeted. “My interactions with the White House were in regards to a more coordinated strategy dealing with impeachment.” After that, Shrum said, Clinton “was incredibly focused on the speech and he came out of it on an upswing. ... He was incredibly disciplined during this whole period in terms of the way he reacted, the way they put together a defense team and they kept the country running.”Trump, by contrast, often appears consumed by the impeachment probe. Except for his family, none of his advisors apparently can deliver difficult messages, divert his attention from cable news or deter him from tweeting.
And Chile’s cancellation of the planned Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, due to anti-government protests in Santiago, dashed Trump’s hopes of meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping this month to nail down an elusive U.S.-China trade deal, depriving the White House of another possible accomplishment.
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