Barrage of setbacks spoils Trump's post-Mueller reset

[riversedge]

Trumps need for chaos is catching up to him.




Barrage of setbacks spoils Trump’s post-Mueller reset

A claimed 'exoneration' after the Russia probe seemed to promise a fresh start for the president. No such luck.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/04/trump-mueller-report-update-1256271




By ANITA KUMAR and ANDREW RESTUCCIA

04/04/2019 06:35 PM EDT

It was just last week that President Donald Trump and his allies euphorically celebrated what they called Trump’s exoneration after special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The apparent absence of proof that Trump’s 2016 campaign conspired with the Kremlin produced talk of a fresh start for Trump’s presidency ahead of the 2020 election.

But misfortune and mayhem almost immediately began piling up. Trump unleashed two new political crises — one on health care, one on the Mexican border — and then retreated on both of them. A brief lull in House Democratic oversight action ended abruptly when House investigators demanded his tax returns.

And news reports revealed that Mueller’s soon-to-be-released findings may be far more damaging than Attorney General William Barr has publicly indicated, suggesting that the Russia scandal is hardly in the president’s rear view window.

The action reached a crescendo on Thursday when Trump backed down from days of threats to “shut down” the U.S.-Mexico border in response to what he calls an illegal immigration and drug-trafficking crisis. Facing intense opposition from congressional Republicans, business groups and his own senior aides, Trump said he would give Mexico a “one-year warning” to stop the flow of drugs into the United States.


While Trump added a new threat to slap tariffs on cars manufactured in Mexico, he was effectively backing down for the second time in a week on an issue he had elevated........................

[Grasswire2]

1. and the unintended consequence for him is that there's no need for a wall if the "crisis"..

.......can wait a year.

[Thekaspervote]

2. Hummmm some nt'l emergency.. so urgent, but in a year or so, or whatever

[BigmanPigman]

3. The moron's "need for chaos" is driving half

of the population into the loony bin with him. We know he thrives on chaos but 2 plus years is too much. Of course we all know that this is the beginning of his stress. Soon you won't be able understand a word out of his mouth, not even "oranges".

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Ain't that a shame