You Will Anyway

In private, President Trump spent much of the past week brooding, as he often does. He has been anxious about the Russia ­investigation’s widening fallout, with his former campaign chairman standing trial. And he has fretted that he is failing to accrue enough political credit for what he claims as triumphs.

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You mean he spends his days whinging? Make the world praise me!

Trump has also expressed to confidants lingering unease about how some in his orbit — including his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. — are ensnared in the Russia probe, in his assessment simply because of their ­connection to him.

I don't believe that. He has never accepted fault for anything in his life.

The president, more than ever, is channeling his internal frustration and fear into a ravenous maw of grievance and invective.

There you go. That's the man.

He is churning out false statements with greater frequency and attacking his perceived enemies with intensifying fury.

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Trump, who has decamped to his New Jersey golf estate for an 11-day working vacation, is at a critical juncture in the Russia investigation as he decides in coming days whether to sit for an interview with Mueller or defy investigators and risk being issued a subpoena.

"Working vacation." LOL. At least when he's at his golf estate, he's soaking the government coffers - transferring money from our pockets to his. That should make him happy. I expect he'll be spending more and more time doing that while he's assured of the opportunity.

The frequency of the president’s mistruths has picked up, as well.

"Mistruths." We're inventing words now to avoid calling the president what he is: a liar.

The Washington Post Fact Checker found last week that Trump has now made 4,229 false or misleading claims so far in his presidency — an average of nearly 7.6 such claims per day, and an increase of 978 in just two months.

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On Thursday night, the president turned a Pennsylvania rally to support Republican Senate candidate Lou Barletta into a Trumpian grieve-fest, returning repeatedly to his favorite foil — the “fake, fake, disgusting news,” as he bellowed — to portray himself as a victim of chronically unfair coverage from “horrible, horrendous people.”

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Trump’s lawyers say it is the president himself who is calling the shots in what is becoming an all-out public relations blitz to discredit Mueller.

“With his great feel for public opinion and how to deal with it, he has a sense about what would work, what to say,” Giuliani said. “He sort of determines the public strategy, and we get his approval and input for the legal strategy.”

Maybe try a real lawyer.

“Rudy’s told him the other player is bluffing with a pair of 2’s,” said one Trump adviser. And Trump has latched onto Giuliani’s talking point that “collusion is not a crime,” believing it is catchy and brilliantly simplistic, according to people with knowledge of internal talks.

Simplistic, I'll agree. Catchy, maybe. A winning ploy? Not on your life.

Trump has confided to friends and advisers that he is worried the Mueller probe could destroy the lives of what he calls “innocent and decent people” — namely Trump Jr., who is under scrutiny by Mueller for his role organizing a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. As one adviser described the president’s thinking, he does not believe his son purposefully broke the law, but is fearful nonetheless that Trump Jr. inadvertently may have wandered into legal ­jeopardy.

There goes Donnie. Under the bus.

As Trump sees it, Mueller is aggressively prosecuting Manafort — detailing his alleged tax evasion and bank fraud scheme and flashing snapshots of his extravagant wardrobe for the jury — to deliberately embarrass Trump and undermine his presidency. And, according to people familiar with the president’s thinking, he believes the news ­media is complicit.

I don't think it's possible to embarrass Trump. The man has no sense of shame.

From his White House residence Wednesday morning, Trump tweeted that Manafort may be treated worse by the criminal justice system than Al “Scarface” Capone, whom he identified as “legendary mob boss, killer and ‘Public Enemy Number One.’ ” He later called around to some advisers asking what they thought of the tweet, proud that he had come up with the Capone comparison.

If that's not embarrassing, I don't know what would be. Was Capone treated unfairly? He was a notorious gangster and tax avoider, ferfuxsake.

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

UPDATE 8/5:



Of course he did.  This is why he can't be allowed to talk to Mueller.  His lies on Twitter won't get him any jail time.

Doesn't he have some presidential duties to attend to?