August 4, 2018
PITY THE POOR TRUMPBOTS:
Trump at a precarious moment in his presidency: Privately brooding and publicly roaring (Philip Rucker, Robert Costa and Ashley Parker, August 4, 2018, Washington Post)
[T]rump has latched onto Giuliani's talking point that "collusion is not a crime," believing it is catchy and brilliantly simplistic, according to people with knowledge of internal talks.Still, Trump has confided to friends and advisers that he is worried the Mueller probe could destroy the lives of what he calls "innocent and decent people" -- namely Trump Jr., who is under scrutiny by Mueller for his role organizing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. As one adviser described the president's thinking, he does not believe his son purposefully broke the law, but is fearful nonetheless that Trump Jr. inadvertently may have wandered into legal jeopardy.
The true-believers are the only ones left pretending he's not guilty.
Posted by Orrin Judd at August 4, 2018 10:04 PM