A.B. Stoddard: Trump’s ‘Bringing Himself So Much Political Pain’

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STODDARD: "There are so many things that the President Trump can do -- it’s the way that he does it. He blames the Rosenstein memo that came from the deputy attorney general and then he sends Vice President Mike Pence to go out and say seven times on Capitol Hill, it was because of the recommendations, the strong recommendations in a memo written by Rod Rosenstein who then gets thrown under the bus the next day by the president interview with NBC News, saying, no, it was my decision all along. So this is the kind of thing -- that's why he's -- he’s just bringing himself so much political pain. If it’s not legal and ethical, it’s so political peril that he doesn’t need when Republicans in Congress are increasingly afraid to defend him, not knowing what he'll turn around and say 36 hours later."