The ever angry president

Trump erupted in anger while traveling to Davos after learning that Associate Attorney General Stephen Boyd warned that it would be “extraordinarily reckless” to release a classified memo written by House Republican staffers.

  Bloomberg

If he were a man capable of empathy or sympathy, he'd probably have lots of both for Dick Nixon during Watergate.

For Trump, the letter was yet another example of the Justice Department undermining him.

He wants the memo released because he thinks it exonerates him by implicating the FBI in a conspiracy against him. Some who have seen it say it does neither. Devin Nunes has been using it to suggest those things, and may live to regret it if it gets released. I doubt if anyone even told Trump what the memo actually says.

Trump’s outburst capped a week where Trump and senior White House officials personally reproached Attorney General Jeff Sessions and asked White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to speak to others.

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Trump warned Sessions and others they need to excel at their jobs or go down as the worst in history, the two people said.

Sadly, no one said, "We'll be sitting right beside you."

After Trump’s strong reaction on Air Force One over the Boyd letter, White House officials, including Kelly, sprang into action again, lashing Justice Department officials Thursday over the decision to send the letter, according to the people.

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Kelly held separate meetings or phone calls with senior Justice Department officials last Monday [including a phone call to AG Sessions], Tuesday and Wednesday to convey Trump’s displeasure and lecture them on the White House’s expectations, according to the people. Kelly has taken to ending such conversations with a disclaimer that the White House isn’t expecting officials to do anything illegal or unethical.

Wow. Kelly is skirting obstruction charges here himself. Is he not smarter than that? This is in the same vein as Trump asking Comey if he couldn't just let the Flynn thing go. Technically no order, but certainly meant to be interpreted to give him what he wants.

The House Intelligence Committee plans to vote Monday evening on whether to release its classified memo, which contains allegations of counterintelligence surveillance abuses against at least one Trump campaign aide. If the panel votes to release it, it would fall to the White House, perhaps with the advice of intelligence agencies, to decide whether some of the contents are too sensitive and need to be redacted.

Well, there's your out right there. Just redact the parts that don't back up your claims.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.