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By Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker June 23 at 5:00 AM
President Trump has a new morning ritual. Around 6:30 a.m. on many days before all the network news shows have come on the air he gets on the phone with a member of his outside legal team to chew over all things Russia.
The calls detailed by three senior White House officials are part strategy consultation and part presidential venting session, during which Trumps lawyers and public-relations gurus take turns reviewing the latest headlines with him. They also devise their plan for battling his avowed enemies: the special counsel leading the Russia investigation; the fake news media chronicling it; and, in some instances, the presidents own Justice Department overseeing the probe.
His advisers have encouraged the calls which the early-to-rise Trump takes from his private quarters in the White House residence in hopes that he can compartmentalize the widening Russia investigation. By the time the president arrives for work in the Oval Office, the thinking goes, he will no longer be consumed by the Russia probe that he complains hangs over his presidency like a darkening cloud.
It rarely works, however. Asked whether the tactic was effective, one top White House adviser paused for several seconds and then just laughed.
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global1
(25,272 posts)telling him what he wants to hear to placate him?
oxbow
(2,034 posts)The screws are only getting tighter... he's got multiple ongoing federal investigations, and multiple states and watchdog groups suing him. The rule of law is rising up against mobster rule. He does not see it that way, of course...and with a fuse that short, he's bound to go off soon.