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Until now, Robert Mueller has haunted Donald Trump’s White House as a hovering, mostly unseen menace. But by securing indictments of Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, and a surprise guilty plea from foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, Mueller announced loudly that the Russia investigation poses an existential threat to the president. “Here’s what Manafort’s indictment tells me: Mueller is going to go over every financial dealing of Jared Kushner and the Trump Organization,” said former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg. “Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup.
You can’t go any lower. He’s fucked.”
The first charges in the Mueller probe have kindled talk of what the endgame for Trump looks like, according to conversations with a half-dozen advisers and friends of the president. For the first time since the investigation began, the prospect of impeachment is being considered as a realistic outcome and not just a liberal fever dream. According to a source, advisers in the West Wing are on edge and doing whatever they can not to be ensnared. One person close to Dina Powell and Gary Cohn said they’re making sure to leave rooms if the subject of Russia comes up.
The consensus among the advisers I spoke to is that Trump faces few good options to thwart Mueller. For one, firing Mueller would cross a red line, analogous to Nixon’s firing of Archibald Cox during Watergate, pushing establishment Republicans to entertain the possibility of impeachment. “His options are limited, and his instinct is to come out swinging, which won’t help things,” said a prominent Republican close to the White House.
Trump, meanwhile, has reacted to the deteriorating situation by lashing out on Twitter and venting in private to friends. He’s frustrated that the investigation seems to have no end in sight. “Trump wants to be critical of Mueller,” one person who’s been briefed on Trump’s thinking says. “He thinks it’s unfair criticism. Clinton hasn’t gotten anything like this. And what about Tony Podesta? Trump is like, When is that going to end?”
According to two sources, Trump has complained to advisers about his legal team for letting the Mueller probe progress this far. Speaking to Steve Bannon on Tuesday, Trump blamed Jared Kushner for his role in decisions, specifically the firings of Mike Flynn and James Comey, that led to Mueller’s appointment, according to a source briefed on the call. When Roger Stone recently told Trump that Kushner was giving him bad political advice, Trump agreed, according to someone familiar with the conversation. “Jared is the worst political adviser in the White House in modern history,” Nunberg said. “I’m only saying publicly what everyone says behind the scenes at Fox News, in conservative media, and the Senate and Congress.” (The White House didn’t respond to a request for comment by deadline.)
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President Donald Trump is an avid viewer of Fox News and its morning program “Fox & Friends,” which is seen as offering more favorable coverage of the administration than other news outlets. His early morning tweets often reference coverage on the program.
The reasons behind his affection for the network and its flagship morning program were apparent on Monday, when Mr. Trump's campaign associates Paul Manafort and Rick Gates were indicted as part of the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
The way each network covered the story – or avoided it – is a sign of how the media landscape has become ever more politicized in the Trump era. That is particularly true of Fox News.
Fox News aired 25 minutes of indictment coverage in the first hour after news of the charges broke around 8 a.m. – just as attention would have surged. CNN and MSNBC, in contrast, aired at least an hour of nearly uninterrupted and ad-free coverage.
Fox devoted much of its morning programming to other topics: the hamburger emoji, Halloween costumes and dubious actions by Democrats. One particularly long segment critiqued an essay in The Economist that asked if Americans over-romanticize the military. They also ran at least seven ad breaks.
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@Michael Scally MD when do we start taking bets ? I'll check the Vegas lines..
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Falling asleep I just had a thought....So if the "Justice System" is a "laughing stock". Who get's the "Last laugh" when they sentence Trumps ass?! Hmmmmmmmm Good night
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Falling asleep I just had a thought....So if the "Justice System" is a "laughing stock". Who get's the "Last laugh" when they sentence Trumps ass?! Hmmmmmmmm
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The government of Sweden is paying for a former U.S. Interior Department official and prominent critic of President Donald Trump’s climate policy to attend next week’s United Nations climate conference in Germany, where he says he will speak about the U.S. "war on science."
Joel Clement became a minor celebrity in July, when he wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Washington Post. The piece described Clement’s transfer from his job focused on climate adaptation to one "in the accounting office that collects royalty checks from fossil fuel companies." Clement called the reassignment retribution for his position on climate change. He resigned from the government last month.
Clement said he will go to to the UN climate conference in Bonn "with the kind support of the Government of Sweden and the Stockholm Environment Institute," a research organization with U.S. offices. Swedish officials approached him about going, he said by email.
He said he plans "to speak about what is happening inside the US federal government, including but not limited to the absurd war on science and fact."
The government of Sweden is paying for a former U.S. Interior Department official and prominent critic of President Donald Trump’s climate policy to attend next week’s United Nations climate conference in Germany, where he says he will speak about the U.S. "war on science."
Joel Clement became a minor celebrity in July, when he wrote an op-ed that appeared in the Washington Post. The piece described Clement’s transfer from his job focused on climate adaptation to one "in the accounting office that collects royalty checks from fossil fuel companies." Clement called the reassignment retribution for his position on climate change. He resigned from the government last month.
Clement said he will go to to the UN climate conference in Bonn "with the kind support of the Government of Sweden and the Stockholm Environment Institute," a research organization with U.S. offices. Swedish officials approached him about going, he said by email.
He said he plans "to speak about what is happening inside the US federal government, including but not limited to the absurd war on science and fact."
