Maguire Walks a Tightrope

Clare Malone: “A thing that we are seeing with the Maguire testimony is the tightrope walking he does to make sure he stays on the president’s good side in order to maintain his confidence — something Maguire explicitly says is necessary in order for him to maintain influence re: intelligence activities. We’re seeing the lengths that Maguire went to in order to make sure that he wasn’t getting on the wrong side of the White House.”

“Maguire continues to say that this complaint is ‘unprecedented,’ but I also wonder how he would act in the same situation with a president of a different personality. Would he have been less careful/parsing about his decision to submit a report to Congress? It’s an unknowable thing, but so much of this revolves around Trump’s personality and well-documented capriciousness, I think.”