Axelrod re: House ethics drama stagecraft

[kpete]

This House ethics drama was an absolute gift to @realDonaldTrump-a big, fat zeppelin for him to shoot down. Which he did.

https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/816331647335415808
https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/816375725062164480
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/816373917900161024

[Chasstev365]

1. A Softball to the Orange Man?

Possible, but I think it pissed off many people was well.

[underpants]

2. They just screwed up

They do this sort of thing all the time.

[bigtree]

3. Axelrod massaging Trump, again?

...he's not only dead wrong, he's parroting the rest of the Trump apologists on this.

Trump didn't shoot anything more than a half-ass-covering tweet, complete with a sop to the republican ethics saboteurs about the 'unfair' ethics office.

[Greybnk48]

4. Agree. Pure Kabuki theater

to make Trump look like the leader he's not.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. There are plenty of ways they could have kissed Trump's ass without themselves looking like crooks.

The media is overplaying Trump's influence because some of them jumped on the meme early then as usual the rest parroted the early birds, making it conventional wisdom, when they should have done their own reporting and coming to their own conclusions.
When opinions are substituted for facts, no one wants to look like they have a wildly different set of them.