GOP insider sees ‘PR war’ as House Democrats bore deeper with sweeping document request
President Donald Trump went on the attack over the weekend before a conservative audience and in a series of tweets, signaling a legal and public relations strategy that will likely decide whether he wins a second term.
For over two hours Saturday, Trump veered from topic to topic and political foe to political foe during a fiery appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington. The list of federal, state and congressional investigations into his 2016 campaign and business dealings are all “bullshit,” he said before mocking his former attorney general. A day later, he tried to blame House Democrats for his failure to make any progress with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week.
“Nothing in there was new. I mean, he’s talked about all of that before,” a senior White House official said.
View the complete March 5 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.