Maggie Haberman: White House Staffers Privately Admit Trump’s El Paso, Dayton Visits Were a ‘Debacle’

‘The goal was to go in and get out with as little news as possible’

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HABERMAN: "Most people -- while they would I suspect not say that publicly -- will privately admit that yesterday was something of a debacle. These are not the headlines they wanted to see. They wanted him to go in and behave differently. The goal was to go in and get out with as little news as possible. He actually has done that. He did it after Pittsburgh where there was also controversy after the synagogue shooting there. He was much more able to sort of stay calm. Yesterday he couldn’t stop watching television news where Democratic candidates were attacking him, and this is part of the process.”

(h/t Mediaite

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