A.B. Stoddard: The More Trump Sees He Gets Away with, the More He Pushes

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STODDARD: "Well, when President Trump took office, he expected the bummers in the Republican Party to tamp down his controversial conduct. And then they did initially. And over time they’ve stopped. And they condone it. You have senator Lindsey Graham basically saying if I were Donald Trump Jr.’s lawyer, I would tell him don’t come back and face a lawful subpoena or cooperate with a bipartisan investigation on a subpoena that a Republican signed off on. And so, everyone around the President, who he anticipated would be stopping him, become henchmen. He does what he can get away with. He called on the investigation of Michael Cohen’s father-in-law. He has done all sorts of things that there’s been no push-back to. So the more he sees he gets away with, the more he pushes. There are no rules. People see a witness tampering tweet about Don McGhan, roll their eyes. This idea that Biden will be investigated is not news to anyone. I actually think Republicans who are worried about the majority in the Senate, not enough good Democratic recruits, but they're worried nonetheless, could not stomach this Rudy trip and it wasn’t the Democratic response. However, Biden will be investigated, whether it’s by Corey Lewandowski or some band of rookies or by the Department of Justice, there’s no question that the President believes it’s appropriate, that he’s going to tell the voters that he was spied on in 2016, and that anyone who’s going to be the Democratic nominee is prepared to face that."