With a pattern developing, it is hard for GOP to defend Trumps rookie mistakes

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With a pattern developing, it is hard for GOP to defend Trump’s ‘rookie mistakes’


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The Post reported special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has moved from the Trump campaign to Trump himself.

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The Post reported special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has moved from the Trump campaign to Trump himself.
By James Pindell Globe Staff June 15, 2017



The explosive report from The Washington Post Wednesday night that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has moved from the Trump campaign to Trump himself is not only an important turning point as a legal matter, but also as a political one.

Until now, there has been a consistent line among top Republican officials, especially when it came to questions about whether the president obstructed justice by potentially trying to interfere with the investigation into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn. The line was essentially this: Trump is a rookie and didn’t mean anything nefarious.

“The president’s new at this. He’s new at government,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said last week in response to testimony from former FBI director James Comey. “He’s not steeped in the long-running protocols that establish the relationships between DOJ, FBI, and the White House.”

The same day, Texas congressman Jodey Arrington summed it up as simply the actions of a “rookie politician.”


But with each new revelation that Trump reached out to more and more people to pressure them about dropping the matter, it might be harder to defend Trump.

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Yet it was Trump, in an interview with NBC News, who later contradicted his story, saying he fired Comey with the “Russia thing” on his mind.

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[tanyev]

1. You can't blame rookie mistakes when he is willfully going against all the advice he is given.

[dalton99a]

2. This is a 71-year-old guy who had 4,100 lawsuits with his name on them

[BigmanPigman]

3. He damn well knows what he is doing. Crazy like a fox.

Sorry, that's an insult to foxes everywhere.