The following article by Sean McMinn was posted on the Roll Call website December 18, 2017:
President Donald Trump came into office with two chambers of Congress controlled by his own party. So it’s not surprising he got his way on almost all the votes he took a position on — a fairly typical barometer of a president’s legislative success.
The following article by Jesse Byrnes was posted on the Hill website December 8, 2017:
Trump tonight responds to chants of ‘lock her up’ by calling the system “rigged”: “This is a sick system from the inside.”
Reminder: Two ex-Trump aides have been charged on multiple counts, including conspiracy against the U.S.. Two others have pleaded guilty to felony charges. pic.twitter.com/yZFiCcc4A8
The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen was posted on the Hill website December 2, 2017:
President Trump’s tweet suggesting that he knew former national security adviser Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI at the time of his firing has prompted ethics experts and political observers to question whether Mueller could probe the president for obstruction of justice.
Walter Shaub, the former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, said Saturday that Trump’s tweet would have been enough to end past administrations.
The following article by Bob Brigham was posted on the RawStory website November 29, 2017:
MSNBC anchor Ari Melber brought on “a Trump critic who knows the man better than most” to help decipher reports that President Donald Trump is denying the “Access Hollywood” tape. Tony Schwartz co-authored The Art of the Deal with the real estate developer.
“What does it mean when Donald Trump says the thing that he apologized for and admitted he said, was maybe a hoax?” Melber asked.
“That he is decompensating. That’s a psychiatric term, but what it means in simple terms is he is losing his grip on reality,” Schwartz suggested. “His reality testing is really poor and I believe that’s exactly what’s going on.”
“You have known him for quite some time,” Melber noted. “When you see Donald Trump today, when you see what he’s saying that is false, is it about what you saw then or do you see a change?”
“There is a pretty dramatic change. He is more limited in his vocabulary, he is further from, as I said, this connection to what is factual and real. He is more impulsive, he is more reactive,” Schwartz observed. “This is a guy in deep trouble.”
“We need to be really bringing in psychiatrists because this is a man who is deeply mentally ill and literally, I know that two different people from the White House — or at least saying they they were from the White House and it turned out to be a White House number — who have called somebody I know in the last several weeks to say, ‘we are deeply concerned about his mental health.’”
“Wait a minute,” Melber interrupted. “You’re saying you have knowledge of people calling from a White House line raising that question? Why would they do that? How do you know?
“I know because I know the person that they called and this is a person who I absolutely trust, who has great integrity,” Schwartz answered.
“I believe there are people who are concerned,” Schwartz concluded. “Most of them, I think, are hostages to a cult leader. When you watch Sarah Huckabee Sanders, you really feel as if you’re watching somebody who is being brainwashed, or has been brainwashed.”
“I believe what is causing his decompensation at this level is his belief that they are going to get him on Russia,” Schwartz suggested. “And I think Trump is terrified of that. So he is both striking out and he is deflecting, he is in a survival state.”
“I’ve said this before, he is in a state of fight or flight,” Schwartz concluded. “You lose the capacity to reflect and think rationally and logically and you simply lash out and react in an attempt to defend yourself. What he is defending against is an inner sense of emptiness.”
The following article by Ashley Parker and John Wagner was posted on the Washington Post website November 29, 2017:
President Trump on Wednesday shared three inflammatory anti-Muslim videos on Twitter posted by a far-right British activist, drawing backlash from across Britain, including a sharp rebuke from the British prime minister’s office.
The videos — whose authenticity could not be independently verified — were first shared by Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, which bills itself as a political party but has been widely condemned as an extremist group that targets mosques and Muslims. Continue reading “Trump retweets inflammatory and unverified anti-Muslim videos”
The following article by Sarah Kaplan was posted on the Washington Post website November 19, 2017:
President Trump is ignoring the women who have accused him and Senate candidate Roy Moore of harassment or assault, but attacking Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.). (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
Amid a growing number of sexual harassment allegations against Roy Moore, White House officials tried to walk a fine line — acknowledging the seriousness of the allegations without outright calling for the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama to step down.
The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve was posted on the Washington Post website October 2, 2017:
THE BIG IDEA: If Donald Trump doesn’t have anything presidential to say, maybe he shouldn’t say anything at all.
An instinct to counterpunch often leads Trump to try putting out fires with gasoline. That does not always best serve his, or the country’s, interests. This weekend brought two fresh illustrations that the president may say it best when he says nothing at all.
The following was posted on the trumpaccountable.org website June 29, 2017:
In a pair of tweets this morning Donald Trump continued his attacks on the media with an incredibly personal and humiliating attack on Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski that promptly evoked a cascade of criticism. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was particularly pointed in his response calling the comments out as representing “what is wrong with American politics.”
Graham was quickly joined by Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and other Republican leaders who called the personal attacks inappropriate and indefensible. Continue reading “Beneath the Office”
