In Russia, News fakes you!
Trump turning USA into a Russian client state… So does this mean that the Russians “tapp” recorded their WH conversation with Agent Orange. And why did the WH bar media from that meeting, only to allow a Russian state news crew to accompany Lavrov and Lysliak. More interesting would be the transcript of the conversation between Trump and Lysliak.
Why does Donald Trump behave in the dangerous and seemingly self-destructive ways he does?
Three decades ago, I spent nearly a year hanging around Trump to write his first book, “The Art of the Deal,” and got to know him very well. I spent hundreds of hours listening to him, watching him in action and interviewing him about his life. For me, none of what he has said or done over the past four months as president comes as a surprise. The way he has behaved over the past week — firing FBI Director James B. Comey, undercutting his own aides as they tried to explain the decision and then disclosing sensitive information to Russian officials — is also entirely predictable.
Early on, I recognized that Trump’s sense of self-worth is forever at risk. When he feels aggrieved, he reacts impulsively and defensively, constructing a self-justifying story that doesn’t depend on facts and always directs the blame to others…
To survive, I concluded from our conversations, Trump felt compelled to go to war with the world. It was a binary, zero-sum choice for him: You either dominated or you submitted. You either created and exploited fear or you succumbed to it — as he thought his older brother had. This narrow, defensive worldview took hold at a very early age, and it never evolved. “When I look at myself today and I look at myself in the first grade,” he told a recent biographer, “I’m basically the same.” His development essentially ended in early childhood.
There are also details in the story that may indicate intent—particularly the Times’ reporting that Trump spoke to Comey alone in the Oval Office after asking Vice President Pence and Attorney General Sessions to leave the room. If Trump was planning to pressure Comey into dropping an ongoing investigation, it seems reasonable that he would not want the Vice President and Attorney General in the room while doing so. Recall that the dinner with Comey in which Trump pushed for the FBI Director to pledge his loyalty was also one-on-one.