James Clapper: Trump’s Tweets Tell Me ‘The Walls Are Crashing in on Him’

EXCERPT:

CLAPPER: "Well, I just think the volume and the — to me, irrationality of some of the things he is saying and his tweets at least tell me that, you know, the walls are kind of crashing in on him. And when you think about the sequence of events in the last week or so with the Manafort guilty plea and the Michael Cohen plea bargain and revelations about past misdeeds that the 'National Enquirer' has been suppressing, I just think that more and more, legally he feels like he is in jeopardy. I think what he is trying to do, to use a military expression, is prep the battlefield for taking some action later and in the meantime, maximum extent that he can, undermining the credibility of the investigation. So I guess it's a rhetorical ratcheting up here from a hoax to something illegal. The fact that he had not used that adjective before is probably pretty significant."