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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Siege warfare': Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/siege-warfare-republican-anxiety-spikes-as-trump-faces-growing-legal-and-political-perils/2018/12/08/679b785a-fa59-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html?utm_term=.bdf9c875c89bA growing number of Republicans fear that a battery of new revelations in the far-reaching Russia investigation has dramatically heightened the legal and political danger to Donald Trumps presidency and threatens to consume the rest of the party, as well.
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Trump remains headstrong in his belief that he can outsmart adversaries and weather any threats, according to advisers. In the Russia probe, he continues to roar denials, dubiously proclaiming that the latest allegations of wrongdoing by his former associates totally clear him.
But anxiety is spiking among Republican allies, who complain that Trump and the White House have no real plan for dealing with the Russia crisis while confronting a host of other troubles at home and abroad.
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The White House is adopting what one official termed a shrugged shoulders strategy for the Mueller findings, calculating that most GOP base voters will believe whatever the president tells them to believe.
But some allies fret that the presidents coalition could crack apart under the growing pressure. Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump strategist who helped him navigate the most arduous phase of his 2016 campaign, predicted 2019 would be a year of siege warfare and cast the presidents inner circle as naively optimistic and unsophisticated.
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'Siege warfare': Republican anxiety spikes as Trump faces growing legal and political perils (Original Post)
hlthe2b
Dec 2018
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dalton99a
(81,570 posts)1. Stay the course. Don't change a thing. And keep tweeting.
PJMcK
(22,048 posts)2. Tick tock tick tock tick tock... (n/t)
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)3. The most hopeful sentence in the article
"But one pro-Trump senator said privately that a breaking point would be if Mueller documents conspiracy with Russians."
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)4. Long ways from being over...they better buy stock in Tums.