Robert Costa: Trump’s ‘Isolated’ and ‘Lashing Out’ and the W.H. ‘Feels Besieged’ by Comey

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COSTA: "On the president’s state of mind, based on my conversations with White House officials over the weekend, he is someone who is isolated in the sense that he’s lashing out at former FBI director James Comey, he’s going to be manning Twitter again today, looking for possible opportunities to make different arguments, looking ahead also to Mar-a-Lago and the discussions with Abe on trade in North Korea. And still has all of the issues facing him with Syria. So this is a White House that feels besieged, not only by Comey, but fighting battles on multiple fronts, and that’s making a president who doesn’t have all of his confidants around him anymore, more in a position of a fighter."
SCARBOROUGH: "He’s more isolated than ever, Bob?"
COSTA: "A lot of his associates from over the years are just gone. And he’s surrounded by people in the administration he somewhat likes, but they’re little things like the vice president’s tapping of Jon Lerner to be a national security adviser that was then spiked over the weekend. Little things and big things that have animated him behind the scenes that make him very unpredictable at this moment."