Mary Katharine Ham: Trump Is ‘Equal Parts Disease and Remedy’

EXCERPT:

TAPPER: That was something I tried to get at with him. But Anthony basically seemed to send a message that there is no getting — the president can’t step on himself because he’s the president, we all work for him.

HAM: I think there’s some truth in the fact. Like he’s equal parts disease and remedy sometimes. Because he is —

TAPPER: The president?

HAM: Yes. He is the reason that he’s in the White House and because he did things drastically differently that he got there.

So there’s a reason that he thinks that he should keep doing this. If there is somebody on something like an infrastructure week who has the authority and no one has thus far to say, look, this is how we should do things and you shouldn’t blow it up. They could be on a slightly better path than they are on now. 

The question is is he that person? Is anyone that person?