On Wednesday, The New York Times‘ Maggie Haberman and Annie Karni reported that Republicans on Capitol Hill and in the Trump administration are concerned that President Donald Trump has not built a “war room” for impeachment. He instead appears to be content to direct the strategy against the House Democrats’ inquiry on his own and on the fly — stymieing allies who need guidance and talking points to coordinate a defense of the president.

“For now, the White House has no organized response to impeachment, little guidance for surrogates to spread a consistent message even if it had developed one, and minimal coordination between the president’s legal advisers and his political ones,” wrote Haberman and Karni. “And West Wing aides are divided on everything from who is in charge to whether, after two years of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, impeachment even poses a serious political threat to the president.”

“This is a very different animal than the Mueller investigation,” said former Mitch McConnell aide Josh Holmes. “It’s a political question, not a legal one. They need to persuade Republicans in the House and the Senate of a bunch of really good arguments to have the partywide insulation the president is going to prefer going into this fight.”

Complicating matters still further, wrote Haberman and Karni, is that “Behind the scenes, Mr. Trump has seesawed from projecting confidence that there is a political benefit from the impeachment fight to lashing out at aides, blaming them for the fact that he is entangled by it in the first place.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/republicans-are-scared-because-trump-is-handling-impeachment-response-himself-and-not-taking-their-help-report/