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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trump learned about the special prosecutor
How Trump learned about the special prosecutor
The latest blow to the president came as he interviewed candidates to replace the FBI director he had fired eight days earlier
By JOSH DAWSEY and ANNIE KARNI 05/17/2017 11:16 PM EDT Updated 05/18/2017 09:15 AM EDT
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/donald-trump-special-prosecutor-mueller-238534
Trump handled it better than anyone expected, according to a person in the room. His reaction was extremely measured, another said.
He didn't yell or scream. He told the assembled crowd they had nothing to hide.
But that level-headedness was quickly replaced Thursday morning by a wounded Tweeter-in-Chief lashing out as some of his staffers had been expecting the news would bring out.
The change in attitude followed a typical pattern with Trump: accepting a defeat in real time, and then later raging against it after talking to friends and watching television. After his first attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare failed, he was calm and conciliatory, and then later began blasting the House Freedom Caucus from his online pulpit.
The latest blow to the president came as he interviewed candidates to replace the FBI director he had fired eight days earlier
By JOSH DAWSEY and ANNIE KARNI 05/17/2017 11:16 PM EDT Updated 05/18/2017 09:15 AM EDT
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/donald-trump-special-prosecutor-mueller-238534
Trump handled it better than anyone expected, according to a person in the room. His reaction was extremely measured, another said.
He didn't yell or scream. He told the assembled crowd they had nothing to hide.
But that level-headedness was quickly replaced Thursday morning by a wounded Tweeter-in-Chief lashing out as some of his staffers had been expecting the news would bring out.
The change in attitude followed a typical pattern with Trump: accepting a defeat in real time, and then later raging against it after talking to friends and watching television. After his first attempt at repealing and replacing Obamacare failed, he was calm and conciliatory, and then later began blasting the House Freedom Caucus from his online pulpit.
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How Trump learned about the special prosecutor (Original Post)
Miles Archer
May 2017
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Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)1. From the article:
"Trump handled it better than anyone expected, according to a person in the room. His reaction was extremely measured, another said.
He didn't yell or scream. He told the assembled crowd they had nothing to hide."
Yonnie3
(17,441 posts)3. What an effing low bar!
MineralMan
(146,311 posts)2. Deep down in what passes for his soul, Trump Haz a Sad.
Soon, he will Haz a Mad, I predict. Then, he will Haz a Psychotic Break. And thus it goes...
duncang
(1,907 posts)4. He just couldn't understand it
He had a bigger brain freeze then he normally is in.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)5. Borowitz: "Obama Avoided Having Special Prosecutor Through Devious Tactic of Not Breaking Law"
Amishman
(5,557 posts)6. He knew it was coming, this is his own doing
The special counsel was picked by Trump's own DoJ, by the same man Trump used to draft his excuse for firing Comey.
This is going to be a farce. Trump sees that an investigation can't be ducked any longer. So he is putting his own man in charge of it.
We are being tricked.