The rage that ate the White House

Have the fire brigade on standby.

Over the weekend, Jared Kushner described Trump’s mood as “rip-shit,” according to one of the advisers. “Total meltdown” was how another adviser put it. “He’s extremely frustrated,” a Republican close to the White House said.

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The biggest fear rippling through the West Wing is that no one knows what [White House counsel Don] McGahn told Mueller during his multiple interviews.

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Wait till he sees the news that Manafort has been handed 8 guilty counts and Cohen has turned himself in, admitting he paid off Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels at Trump's direction in order to affect the election.

Last night, The Washington Post reported that McGahn’s lawyer, Bill Burck, has been doing damage control, telling the White House that McGahn did not “incriminate” Trump. That’s provided little solace to Trump and West Wing aides. “You have to understand McGahn kept notes on every single meeting with Trump,” one former West Wing official said. “There’s no way this guy is going to protect him.”

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“He’s got to frame the narrative. He thinks the media is like a shark: you’re either feeding it or it eats you,” one Republican close to the White House said. Privately, Trump blames his precarious position on the people who work for him. Trump’s fury at Attorney General Jeff Sessions, already raging, has been stoked thanks to Sessions’s refusal to resign after months of public abuse. “You can’t talk to Trump without him bringing up Sessions,” one adviser said.

So I keep wondering why he doesn't fire Sessions. And I have to keep coming back to the idea that Sessions was personally in on the Russian conspiracy with him.

Trump’s frustration with Sessions has even caused him to turn on Giuliani. Over the weekend, Trump blamed Giuliani for the entire Russia probe. According to a person to whom the conversation was described, Trump loudly said to his lawyer: “It’s your fault! I offered you attorney general, but you insisted on being secretary of state. Had I picked you none of this would be happening.”

A lot of what’s driving Trump’s ire, White House advisers said, is Trump’s growing realization that his previous legal team, Ty Cobb and John Dowd, made a strategic error in waiving executive privilege to cooperate fully with Mueller. But Trump being Trump, he won’t admit to making this mistake, so he directs blame onto others.

Trump has blamed others all his life. He'll always blame others.

Another theory for what’s motivating Trump’s increasingly unhinged tweets is that Mueller may be closing in on his son Don Jr. “A lot of what Trump is doing is based on the fact [that] Mueller is going after Don Jr.,” a person close to the Trump family told me. “They’re squeezing Don Jr. right now.”

And if - or maybe I should say when - it comes down to it, he'll throw Junior under the bus, too.  The question is, will Junior take the fall?  My guess would be yes, and even that won't get him the daddy love he still craves.

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