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‘Everything is coming apart’: Ex-Trump officials panicked his presidency is in unstoppable collapse (
Raw Storylink): On Saturday,
Politico reported that former members of
President Donald Trump’s administration see his presidency as mortally endangered and coming more unglued by the day — although they differ on whether
Trump was always like this, or whether they simply have had a personal epiphany about the man they once worked for.
“It’s just looking like everything is coming apart,’ one former administration official told
Politico. Another said it is a “pipe dream” to constrain
Trump because “Everyone who has tried had eventually failed in some way.”
One of the key moments, for many of them, was
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney admitting, and then trying to walk back, that
Trump indeed engaged in a quid pro quo in his attempts to get dirt on former
Vice President Joe Biden from
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The wheels are not off the car. The situation is way worse than that. The car has been impounded and we are now waiting to figure out what the fine is and to see whether or not we’re going to get the car back,” said
Anthony Scaramucci, who served as
Trump’s communications director for ten days before being fired in spectacular fashion. “
Mulvaney is a good
Catholic and in fairness to him, that was a full-blown
Catholic confessional on Thursday afternoon.”
Trump veterans see a presidency veering off the rails (
Politicolink): Former
Trump White House officials and other
Republicans close to the
White House are increasingly worried about
President Trump’s erratic behavior and say there are no longer enough safeguards around him to prevent self-inflicted disasters large and small.
Just in the last two weeks,
Trump precipitously withdrew
U.S. troops from northern
Syria and attacked
America’s Kurdish allies as “no angels,” sparking outrage among
GOP lawmakers; released a letter to
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan whose undiplomatic language was widely mocked; called his former defense secretary “the world’s most overrated general”; and blew up at
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a meeting his own
White House had called.
Trump's behavior this week has been so bizarre that psychologists, Republicans and ex-staffers are telling me they're worried (
The Independentlink):
Donald Trump is going through the motions of being
President of the United States. He still lives resides at
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he is still the head of the executive branch, and he's still the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military force. He can still give orders and be reasonably sure that they will be followed, like the order he gave to a small group of
US soldiers 12 days ago, requiring them to abandon the
Syrian Kurdish allies with whom they'd shed blood on the way to defeating
Isis. Those soldiers, loyal American servicemen, will follow those orders, even though doing so made them — in the words of one soldier — “ashamed for the first time in my career.”
According to
Pelosi, he "was not relating to the reality" that a supermajority of
House members disagreed with him, to the point where she walked out of the meeting, joined by
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Schumer explained how he'd reminded
Trump of the dangerous conditions that could be created with the release of
Isis fighters who'd been held by
Kurdish forces, and noted that even retired
Marine General James Mattis—
Trump's former
Secretary of Defense— had said that pulling out of
Syria would enhance the terrorist group. According to a source who was in the meeting,
Trump's response was to call
Mattis"the world's most overrated general" and declare that he had personally "captured
Isis in a month."
Another source, who spoke to
CNN's Jamie Gangel, said that
Trump's demeanor left even
Republicans"completely shaken,""shell-shocked" and "sickened."
"He is not in control of himself, it is all yelling and screaming," the source said, adding that
Trump was "100 per cent worse" and that even
Republicans are now worried about his stability. As if to prove the anonymous source's point,
Trump has spent the past two days claiming that he has brought peace to the region, rather than hand an unearned victory to
Erdogan,
Vladimir Putin, and
Bashar al-Assad.
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