.MaddowBlog: White House quietly expects 'unfavorable things' in Mueller report.
The New York Times had a report over the weekend on Donald Trump’s political operation and the president’s focus “on vengeance” now that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is complete. As the article put it, the president’s aides, at least for now, “are indulging him, attacking the Democrats who have sought to investigate him and the reporters who have written about it.”
It wasn’t a throwaway line. For all the celebrations in the White House, for all the end-zone dances, for all presidential boasts about “total exoneration,” some in Trump World are no doubt aware of the fact that Mueller’s findings may not be as great for them as their boss is choosing to believe. [A]s the excitement waned, “cooler heads” emerged in the White House with brand-new anxieties about a president inclined to inflict self-harm by taking things too far.
As a strategy, that makes quite a bit of sense. Attorney General Bill Barr told the White House what it wanted to hear; Trump and his allies sang “We Are The Champions” for a few days; and some officials see value in quickly shifting the political world’s focus before unflattering facts reach the public.Trump and some of his top allies have already said they don’t want to move on; they want to wage war against anyone and everyone who took the Russia scandal seriously.
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