Trump's troubles grow, spread

[brooklynite]

Axios

Top Republicans tell Axios that Trump's handling of the nation's civil unrest, including his hasty photo op at St. John's Church after the violent clearing of Lafayette Park, make them much more worried about his chance of re-election than they were one week ago.

Yesterday, advisers admit, was inarguably brutal:

His current defense secretary, Mark Esper, caught the White House off-guard by breaking with Trump at a press briefing where he said he doesn't currently support invoking the Insurrection Act, the 1807 law that permits the president to use active-duty troops on U.S. soil. Trump was especially infuriated that Esper read his remarks, proving he didn't misspeak. Trump thought Esper was trying to curry favor with the media.

His former defense secretary, retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, torched him as a bad, divisive leader tearing America apart. "I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled," Mattis wrote in a statement to The Atlantic. "We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution."

[BComplex]

1. "make them much more worried about his chance of re-election than they were one week ago"..????

What friggin' bubble do these people live in?

[Cha]

3. Yeah I smh at that, too.

[Cha]

2. Hell Yeah! Cowardly wannabe Dictator in action got

Pushback.

[LizBeth]

4. So they were all that concerned a week ago? Almost four years of this shit, and they are just now

that concerned? Amazing.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. Republican "insiders"

have been telling us things were going bad for Trump for four years now.

And yet, here we are.

[Martin Eden]

6. "Trump thought Esper was trying to curry favor with the media."

That's because the sociopathic orange manbaby is incapable of conceiving that anyone would do or say something based on higher principles rather than personal benefit.