TPM "Trump Yanks The Rug Out From Under His Defenders In Spectacular Fashion"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/trump-yanks-rug-out-from-under-surrogates-sharing-classified-info

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND Published MAY 16, 2017 11:16 AM

Supporters and surrogates of President Donald Trump woke up Tuesday morning to another kick in the teeth.

After working overtime Monday to quell a political firestorm ignited by reports that the President disclosed highly classified information to senior Russian diplomats, Trump promptly threw everyone who came to his defense under the bus, acknowledging in a pair of tweets that he shared “facts” with his visitors from the Kremlin.

Adding insult to injury, Trump insisted he had “the absolute right to do” so.

The President has made a habit of sending his backers out to defend him on TV and in the press, then publicly—even defiantly—undermining their explanations and denials. The way Trump blew up the emerging White House narrative on just what went down in the Oval Office last week is almost an exact echo of the handling of the abrupt firing of FBI director James Comey, which Trump’s communications staff originally attributed to a recommendation from the deputy attorney general. The President took unilateral credit for the decision days later.

“He can’t stand thinking that either he’s in the wrong, as in this case, or that somebody else was in charge of a major move, as was the case with the Comey firing,” Bruce Miroff, a presidential historian at the University of Albany, told TPM.


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NO ONE fails as bigly as the donald!

[manicraven]

1. If I was one of his surrogates, I'd have quit long ago. What keeps them doing this thankless job?

Trump makes them look like fools and blathering idiots, including Pence.

[benld74]

2. What keeps them doing this thankless job? $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Spicer around 170K