Trumps isolation making Russia scandal worse
By Paul Waldman
May 10 at 2:19 PM
... with President Trump, every time is personal. And .. that focus on himself — as opposed to his party or his government or an agenda he’s pursuing — .. is causing this president to dig himself deeper into scandal ...
... Trump has plainly gotten used to a .. dynamic among his staff and .. Republicans in Congress, in which he blurts .. whatever inane thing .. pops into his head — I had the best-attended inauguration in history! — and then his aides have no choice but to go out and insist that he was right, no matter how much mockery and abuse they take in their efforts to defend the indefensible. There was no better example than Trump’s .. allegation that .. Obama tapped his phones during the campaign, which everyone in the administration continues to pretend has some basis in reality ...
... now we have .. learned that .. days before he was fired, Comey asked for more resources to pursue the Russia investigation, a clear signal to the White House that he was not trying to protect the president.
When Comey was sabotaging Hillary Clinton’s campaign and doing a service for Trump, Trump loved him. As soon as he stopped serving Trump, Trump fired him ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/10/how-trumps-isolation-is-making-the-russia-scandal-worse/?utm_term=.7e6f6126d470
