Trump is powerless as his legal fate spins out of his control
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 1:12 AM ET, Tue August 21, 2018
(CNN)President Donald Trump may no longer control his fate, a plight that helps explain his increasingly volcanic Twitter eruptions.
Trump's persona -- in politics, business and life -- relies on his self-image as the guy who calls the shots, closes deals and forces others to react to the shock moves of a master narrative weaver.
But as a legal web closes around the President, he's in a far weaker position than he would like, a situation especially underlined by the bombshell revelations that White House counsel Donald McGahn has spent 30 hours in interviews with special counsel Robert Mueller.
Trump reacted to a media frenzy over the McGahn revelations in characteristic fashion: by launching a new Twitter assault on Mueller, taking new shots at his new nemesis John Brennan and diverting attention with newsy comments on the Federal Reserve.
But sources told CNN on Monday that the President was unsettled that he didn't know the full extent of McGahn's testimony and had remained agitated through the weekend, believing the latest developments made him look weak.
McGahn's conversations with Mueller are not the only drama that is leaving Trump waiting on events, rather than dictating them.
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The damage he's done to this country in the last 19 months is shocking and sobering. Cheeto may be powerless when it comes to preventing the law from coming down on him and his family - eventually. But that won't stop him from taking down the country along with him.
We Democrats and NON-CRAZY people need to take steps to stop him from destroying us. We must get out the vote this year and every year!
He's not waiting for Congress, because they are (mostly) sitting on their butts anyway.
Sadly Obama set the precedent for over-reaching EO's when he was in office, even though his intentions were good. He made it possible for any future POTUS to do the same, precluding the checks & balances of the legislative branch. Now Trump is doing exactly that, and he's proceeding to erase all the good things that Obama accomplished.
I didn't mean that the way it sounded. Not blaming Obama. But I know he resorted to EO's many times when he couldn't get the legislation out of Congress. I agree that it's nobody else's fault that Trump is an asshole - except Trump!
Thanks for setting me straight, friend.
