President Trump didn’t see it coming. And his aides have no plan. That’s the situation at the White House three days after Democrats launched an impeachment inquiry.
One administration official described the president as “shell shocked” by the sudden political gut punch even as he insists the impeachment fight will help him win reelection next year by rallying his base and angering independents.“I think he’s badly wounded right now,” said a Trump campaign advisor who is in frequent contact with the president, one of several aides who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions. “I’m suddenly very worried about 2020.
The final report by Robert S. Mueller III, released in April, concluded that Trump’s aides had welcomed Russia’s help but did not conspire with Moscow. There will be less to do in Washington anyway. Trump, who has also sought to portray Democrats as wholly consumed with ousting him from office, has warned that the impeachment inquiry could kill any thin hopes for bipartisan legislation on guns, immigration or other key concerns before the 2020 elections.
“The superficial support for this guy is wearing thin,” said Anthony Scaramucci, who served briefly as White House communications director before becoming one of Trump’s most outspoken critics. Trump has returned to that playbook, blasting the unnamed whistleblower complaint at the center of the impeachment probe as a “partisan hack job” even though it accurately reflected Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with Ukraine’s president. The Aug. 12 complaint was released Thursday, a day after the White House had put out its account of the phone call.During the 22-month Mueller investigation, Trump grew increasingly brazen, denouncing the former FBI director as biased and unfair.
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