The story starts with a question: "How bad will it get?" and ends with this:
Trump's
attorneys, meanwhile, hope they have enough remaining credibility with the
President to drive home just how perilous his predicament has become for him.
The incriminating interplay between his son and a potential business partner in
Russia points Mueller ever deeper into the guts of the Trump Organization,
which Trump Jr. now runs with his brother Eric. In hopes of limiting the
damage, the lawyers, not to mention some White House staff members, would love
to shut down Trump's Twitter--but he made it clear in remarks to the New York
Times Magazine that this will never happen. "It's my voice," he said.
"They're not going to take away my social media."
It
all adds up, in the words of a senior Administration official, to a
"sh-tstorm" that no White House staffer even tries to deny. The
#FakeNews defense won't work when the Trump family is the one tweeting the
potentially incriminating emails. And all of Washington has awakened to the
fact that the Russia issue has spiraled beyond anyone's control. There are too
many investigations and too many targets--each with his own interests to
protect and his own team of attorneys to protect them--and too many enemies
created by Trump's bull-in-a-china-shop style. It's not a question anymore of
putting them all in a box and shutting the lid. It's only a question of how bad
it will get. (Read the article here.)
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