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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Maddow Makes A Compelling Case That Trump Is Cracking Under Democratic Pressure
https://www.politicususa.com/2018/11/13/rachel-maddow-trump-cracking.htmlPosted on Tue, Nov 13th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Rachel Maddow Makes A Compelling Case That Trump Is Cracking Under Democratic Pressure
Rachel Maddow made a compelling argument that Trump seems even more chaotic and wobbly because he knows that Democrats won the election and the bill for years of corruption is about to come due.
Maddow said:
The White House, the Trump administration more broadly appears to be in a kind of rattly phase. They appear to be in an even more chaotic state than usual there have been ethics troubles in this administration from the very beginning. Some of todays wobbles appear to be the inevitable product of investigatory pressure on ethically challenged high-ranking individuals including those who are either facing investigation or flat-out indictment in the case of this EPA official. So some of it I think is driven by the way ethics scandals tend to end up, which is not good for the ethically challenged official. A lot of this, though, appears to be driven by the political pressure that the White House is newly under in the wake of last weeks elections results. Tonight marks one week since the polls closed in the midterms. The scale of the Democratic Partys victory in last weeks election is still coming into focus one week later as vote tallies get certified and recounts get fought over.
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So there is a lot going on right now in the news there is a lot of pressure on this white house in this administration. And from everything we have seen thus far, this is a president who does not handle pressure particularly well. To the extent that his political fortunes and his legal jeopardy are tied up into one great double helix of a story right now, the presidents firing of Jeff Sessions in the immediate aftermath of last weeks elections, his effort to put in charge of federal law enforcement in the entire U.S. Justice department a random loyalist who was never approved by the Senate I think ultimately this may be seen when we look back on it someday as the presidents big hail mary pass at this point in his term in office.
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So there is a lot going on right now in the news there is a lot of pressure on this white house in this administration. And from everything we have seen thus far, this is a president who does not handle pressure particularly well. To the extent that his political fortunes and his legal jeopardy are tied up into one great double helix of a story right now, the presidents firing of Jeff Sessions in the immediate aftermath of last weeks elections, his effort to put in charge of federal law enforcement in the entire U.S. Justice department a random loyalist who was never approved by the Senate I think ultimately this may be seen when we look back on it someday as the presidents big hail mary pass at this point in his term in office.
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His one big desperate probably wont work effort to try to fix all of his problems all at once by trying to fix law enforcement so it starts to help him out instead of continuing to threaten both him and senior members of his administration. And hail Mary passes occasionally do work, right? Thats why its still a play that people try in football there are reasons tonight to think that this one is probably not going to work.
Trump is more than depressed over losing the midterm election. A man who has gotten away with decades of corruption will now have the investigative power of the House of Representatives on his back. Firing Jeff Sessions did appear to be Trumps hail mary move. He thought that all of his problems would go away if he could get rid of Mueller.
The pressure that the Democrats can bring is even bigger than Mueller, and it is that daily pressure that is making Trump more erratic and causing him to crack.
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Rachel Maddow Makes A Compelling Case That Trump Is Cracking Under Democratic Pressure (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2018
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nolabear
(41,959 posts)1. Insomnia K&R. I hope to sleep well again soon.
Wintryjade
(814 posts)2. He had two years thinking, getting use to the job being able to do what he wants, without Democrats
voice. Two years of thinking the job gave him all the power to do whatever without repercussion. He is not fluid, he will not be able to handle the shift of obstruction. We should have two years of nothing being accomplished before we get a Democratic President in the WH.