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struggle4progress

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Sat Jan 6, 2018, 10:31 PM Jan 2018

An unsettling start to 2018

By Dan Balz
January 6 at 12:25 PM

In a White House marked by a string of high-level comings and goings, an extraordinary level of palace intrigue and a general sense of unpredictability, there remains .. constant .. disorder at the center ...

... there are errors in the book .. that must be considered in any evaluation of its merits. Yet Wolff’s portrait of chaos and dysfunction inside the White House is consistent with the reporting by White House correspondents .. almost from Day One ...

Months ago, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) .. said, "The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful." He later described the White House as "adult day care"...

Trump has repeatedly behaved as has no other modern president, and that’s based just on things the public has been able to see. Meanwhile, almost every news organization has reported about the private rages, the lack of focus, the indiscipline and the isolation that also define the style of the 45th president ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-extraordinary-tweetstorms-mark-an-unsettling-start-to-2018/2018/01/06/51d589e2-f268-11e7-b390-a36dc3fa2842_story.html?utm_term=.95e58904b6cd

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