Trump Can’t Stop Talking About Robert Mueller

Playbook: “President Trump could quite easily have claimed the Mueller report exonerated him, and quickly pivoted to show how he’s getting down to business by working on an infrastructure bill. Or some new middle-class tax cut. Moving on would be an obvious play for a president who has been hampered by investigations from almost Day One of his administration.”

“But… the president can’t stop talking about Robert Mueller. Infrastructure doesn’t drive news cycles, and his jeremiads against the special counsel’s “witch hunt” do. Notice that Democrats don’t talk much about the Russia investigation on the campaign trail? They’d rather talk about health care or the minimum wage or free college education. But one Trump tweet on Mueller can blot out the sun for an entire news cycle.”

“A lot of people discount this president as undisciplined, unsavvy. But that’s giving him way too little credit.”