Analysis: ‘Flood’ of Trump news could do permanent damage to his presidency
Trump has faced a barrage of damaging news stories -- including a report Friday from The New York Times that he told Russian officials that firing
"I hope that the last 10 days were a limited edition, because I'm not sure how many more periods like this we can take as a nation," said
Political analysts have drawn comparisons to the Watergate scandal, which brought down
Trump has helped inflame the controversies by contradicting official
Cleaver, who was first elected in 2004, said he has not experienced anything like the last two weeks during his time in
"Frankly, the old-timers say that even at the beginning of Watergate, it was not like this," Cleaver said. "... In Watergate, it was drip, drip, drip, and in whatever '-gate' this is, it's been flood, flood, flood."
"I mean, who else assumed the presidency and was so soon enveloped in controversy? Maybe
Other presidents have faced bigger crises during their first year in office, but not of their own making, said
"What
"It is the boy who cried wolf," said
Graves, whose brother
"I think most
"It's the media. It's holdovers from the Obama administration," he said. "And certain
The revelations of the past two weeks include reports that Trump's transition team was aware that former National Security Adviser
Kahrs said he still thinks Trump will have a successful presidency but that "the forces stacked up against him are much greater than anyone ever anticipated."
Miller said that polling data show Trump remains "wildly popular" with Republican voters, including those who self-identify as moderate. "It's difficult for
Rackaway said that any congressional action against Trump would be more likely in 2019 if
Despite that, Cleaver said, Trump's clout with
"I'm not saying he's going to be indicted or impeached. ... I'm saying that whatever else happens, that he has been injured so badly that a lot of the powers that are inherent in that office have been permanently removed," he said.
Cleaver said he does not expect Trump to play a leading role in crafting legislation moving forward and hypothesized that
He said that at a Friday briefing, Deputy Attorney General
"In a perfect world, no foreign nation would attempt to influence the headlines preceding an American election," Kobach said, referring to the prevailing theory that
"But in my opinion, those headlines didn't influence anything," said Kobach, who served on Trump's transition team. "It was all inside baseball."
"The attention span around here is famously short anyway ... and these news cycles have been so blockbuster that it kind of takes out all the oxygen in the room," McCaskill said Thursday.
She made that comment before attending a senatorial briefing in which Rosentein revealed that the president planned to fire Comey before Rosentein penned a memo recommending Comey's termination, which was initially pointed to by the
Trump had already appeared to contradict the official
Miller said there has been a "really remarkable pattern where the
"It blatantly shows they were lying," Miller said. "It undermines his own credibility. It undermines the credibility of the people he's appointed. And it shows a lot of confusion. Maybe he's just too impulsive."
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