Rachel Maddow made a compelling argument that Trump seems even more chaotic and wobbly because he knows that Democrats won the election and the bill for years of corruption is about to come due.
Maddow said:
The White House, the Trump administration more broadly appears to be in a kind of rattly phase. They appear to be in an even more chaotic state than usual there have been ethics troubles in this administration from the very beginning. Some of today’s wobbles appear to be the inevitable product of investigatory pressure on ethically challenged high-ranking individuals including those who are either facing investigation or flat-out indictment in the case of this EPA official. So some of it I think is driven by the way ethics scandals tend to end up, which is not good for the ethically challenged official. A lot of this, though, appears to be driven by the political pressure that the White House is newly under in the wake of last week’s elections results. Tonight marks one week since the polls closed in the midterms. The scale of the Democratic Party’s victory in last week’s election is still coming into focus one week later as vote tallies get certified and recounts get fought over.
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So there is a lot going on right now in the news there is a lot of pressure on this white house in this administration. And from everything we have seen thus far, this is a president who does not handle pressure particularly well. To the extent that his political fortunes and his legal jeopardy are tied up into one great double helix of a story right now, the president’s firing of Jeff Sessions in the immediate aftermath of last week’s elections, his effort to put in charge of federal law enforcement in the entire U.S. Justice department a random loyalist who was never approved by the Senate I think ultimately this may be seen when we look back on it someday as the president’s big hail mary pass at this point in his term in office.
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His one big desperate probably won’t work effort to try to fix all of his problems all at once by trying to fix law enforcement so it starts to help him out instead of continuing to threaten both him and senior members of his administration. And hail Mary passes occasionally do work, right? That’s why it’s still a play that people try in football there are reasons tonight to think that this one is probably not going to work.
Trump is more than depressed over losing the midterm election. A man who has gotten away with decades of corruption will now have the investigative power of the House of Representatives on his back. Firing Jeff Sessions did appear to be Trump’s hail mary move. He thought that all of his problems would go away if he could get rid of Mueller.
The pressure that the Democrats can bring is even bigger than Mueller, and it is that daily pressure that is making Trump more erratic and causing him to crack.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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