President Donald Trump has started talking to his outside legal team in the morning before he begins work in the Oval Office to vent and discuss strategy regarding the Russia probes, the Washington Post reported Friday morning, citing three unnamed senior White House officials.
Trump calls his outside counsel “many mornings” around 6:30 a.m, according to the Washington Post. These calls occur before Trump typically goes on his early-morning Twitter tirades, during which he often sounds off on news stories about the Russia investigations.
Per the Post:
The calls — detailed by three senior White House officials — are part strategy consultation and part presidential venting session, during which Trump’s lawyers and public-relations gurus take turns reviewing the latest headlines with him. They also devise their plan for battling his avowed enemies: the special counsel leading the Russia investigation; the “fake news” media chronicling it; and, in some instances, the president’s own Justice Department overseeing the probe.
Trump’s advisers have encouraged him to make these morning calls in the hopes that he will then be able to focus on other issues afterward, but it’s not clear this has worked.
Am I to infer from this that the 6:30 am calls are to his lawyers’ homes? Has Rump been advised something to the effect “Listen, don’t go onto Twitter until you talk to us first!” sort of thing?
I think it’s pretty clear that this strategy hasnt worked.
Some Presidents would start their day working on how to protect the United States from Russian interference in our elections and government; how to protect against any cyber-attacks from any country or group; policies and programs that create jobs; health care policy that actually provides health care rather than taking it away; and similar mundane things. Perhaps even an intelligence briefing to tell him what’s really going on in the world instead of in his head.
Poor lil babe has to get his burps out.
Meeting agenda:
Trump - have you read what’s in the fake news? You guys need to fix this.
Lawyers - Mr. President, we’re working on this but you have to stop venting on twitter.
Trump - fix this now.
Lawyers - there is nothing to fix. The investigations are ongoing.
Trump - you guys are all worthless. Fix it or I’ll get someone who can!
Lawyers - Thank you Mr. President.
Trump - where’s my phone, I have to tweet.
Well, it does allow him mental space to find ways to screw his followers and make them like it.