Analysis: 'Everyone’s asking why on earth he said that stuff to George Stephanopolous. A better question is, could he ever have stopped himself?' writes jackshafer for POLITICOMag
for president—Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kalama Harris, and even the undercard candidates—torched him as a danger to the electoral process.he thinking? In a normal politician, the moment might have been what used to be politely called a “gaffe,” and more accurately called a career-ending self-own. With Trump, though, it’s better to understand it as the perfect melding of all the preoccupations and instincts and political acumen that got him where he is.
First off, of course, the question was about Russia—Trump’s great bugbear. The whole subject of Russian interference grates on an easily bruised ego, intensifying his insecurities about his squeaker victory over Clinton. He’ll be relitigating the Mueller investigation all the way through November 2020.
Second, the issue remains a terrific media draw for Trump. Trump’s responses weren’t a surprise to anyone who’s been following his presidency, but they slurped up a day’s worth of TV chyrons, keeping him the center of attention at a moment when people might be focusing on his thin claims of a deal with Mexico, or his grim 2020 poll numbers. Instead, they’re focused on a sexy but meaningless round of new pro-and-con shouting about the president himself.
And there’s a third factor: His kids. From everything we know about the Trump family, he lives in a universe in which either you’re family or you’re nobody, and in this case that “nobody” includes the entire nation he’s governing. Don Jr.
Trump must have realized from grazing the Fox News Channel on Thursday morning that he didn’t stick the landing in his Stephanopoulos interview, so he did what he always does when he flubs: He took the fight to the enemy—his critics and political adversaries. In his Thursday morning Twitter
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