The memo: Mueller's performances will fuel Trump's anguish

Special advocate Robert MuellerRobert Swan MuellerSasse: US should applaud Mueller's choice to lead the investigation on Russia He painted a damning picture of the Trump administration, even as he confided to the president a victory over the central issue of collusion with Russia.

The White House Trump, as described by Mueller, revolves around an impulsive and angry president who gives orders that NCOs often defy, ignore or seek to delay.

The performance will enraged a president who focuses on the concept of force and is hyper-sensitive to any suggestion of not having absolute control over his administration.

"He will be delighted to see this explained – and it is not obvious that he is always aware when his advisers do it," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and of course. public affairs at Princeton University. "For those who are already a little paranoid about institutional adversaries, this will create even more feelings of distrust within the White House."

But people who served at the Trump White House told The Hill they heard the ring of familiarity – and were not surprised – at the descriptions in the special advocate's report.

"I personally was one of the recipients of a Trump sign for trying to convince him not to do something crazy," said a former White House official sadly.

A GOP strategist with links to the White House, questioned about the councilors' willingness to thwart the president's desires, laughed and said, "I think that was a good thing."

The strategist said Trump could be "very impulsive and choose to eject", a trait that created a need for the people around him to save him from himself.

"Many of his collaborators who have experience – legal or political – have understood the great perils in which he would put himself," said the strategist.

Referring to these details made public, this source added, "I think that will annoy him. This will make him more angry. But at the same time, it can be a private lesson that he learns that his staff was loyal in protecting him. "

It's far from clear that Trump sees things as well.

The president tweeted Friday that the statements in the Mueller report "are fabricated and totally false".

Trump added: "Beware of people who take what are called" notes ", while these notes did not exist until they were needed."

The remark could be considered as a reference to the former White House lawyer Donald McGahnDonald (Don) F. McGahnNew normal: A president can freely interfere in investigations without going to jail. Mueller Report: Winners and Losers Women lawyers pursue a law firm in a climate of "fraternity" and invoke prejudices against women MORE.

According to Mueller, McGahn resisted Trump's invitation to cause the dismissal of the special advocate in 2017, before resisting the pressure exerted by Trump the following year, while the president allegedly allegedly denied that the first episode occurred.

During the 2018 thwarted attempt to convince McGahn to refute the story, Trump would have asked the then White House lawyer, "And what about these notes?" Why are you taking notes? Lawyers do not take notes. I have never had a lawyer taking notes.

McGahn, according to Mueller, "replied that he kept notes because he was a" real lawyer "and that he explained that the notes created a recording and were not a bad thing."

McGahn was far from the only character close to Trump to be described as the defiant, however.

The former New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, believed that a request from Trump was asking him to contact the FBI director at the time. James ComeyJames Brien ComeyDem, MP: The Mueller Report shows a "substantial mass of evidence" on Mueller's obstruction, and Dems should be too – because Trump is not a Nixon time for Democrats to accept the reality MORE was "absurd" and had no intention of doing so, according to Mueller.

Then Assistant Counselor for National Security, K.T. McFarland declined to write a memo that Trump wanted her to write because she was not sure that her version of the events – concerning contacts between the national security adviser and the police, was not the same. then, Michael Flynn, and the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak – was true.

And even some ultra-loyalists have shown, at the very least, a skepticism about bowing to the whims of the president.

Corey LewandowskiCorey R. LewandowskiThe Morning's Morning – After Mueller: What Will House Dems Do Now? Mueller's report shows how Trump's collaborators sought to protect and protect themselves. Mueller Report: Winners and Losers MORE, his first campaign manager, seems to have left an effort to reduce the range of the Mueller probe. Stephen Bannon, then chief strategist at the White House, warned Trump against the dismissal of Comey and later told the president that his claims that Mueller should be ousted because of conflicts of interest were "ridiculous".

Separately, Bannon and then chief of staff of the White House Reince PriebusReinhold (Reince) Richard PriebusTrump: Some statements about him in the Mueller report are "total bulls …" The Mueller Report shows how Trump's helpers sought to protect and protect themselves Mueller: For Months, Sessions carried a resignation letter every time he went to the White House. MORE worked in May 2017 to divert from Trump's possession a letter of resignation from the Attorney General of the day Jeff SessionsJefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump: Some statements about him in the Mueller report are "total bulls —" Colbert hits Trump after the Mueller report: innocents do not say "I'm screwed up" The Hill & # 39; s Morning Report – After Mueller: What are the House Dems going to do now? MORE.

The president had asked for the resignation of Sessions, but later refused, while keeping the letter. According to Mueller's account, Priebus feared that the letter itself would "serve as a" shock collar "that the president could use at any time." Trump eventually returned the letter.

The former White House official who spoke to The Hill said that Trump should overcome his boredom with the appearance of such details.

"Trump may hate being controlled and appearing to be, but many people have risked a lot to prevent him from following his worst instincts," said the manager. "Instead of annoying them, he should thank them – he'd be on the path to dismissal if he had succeeded his way."

Other allies of Trump, however, vigorously dispute this interpretation.

They argue that staff members who did not believe in his agenda harmed the president during the first phase of his term. By that, they do not designate loyalists such as Bannon and Lewandowski, but people identified at the establishment of the GOP.

"The White House's representation in the report may be negative, but it is also quite old-fashioned," said Michael Caputo, a long-time friend of Trump. "The President today has a White House staff much more dedicated to his agenda."

Yet the president does not seem ready to let the past past.

Some of the statements about him in Mueller's report "are bullshit and serve only to give the other person (or me to look bad) good looks," he tweeted on Friday morning. .

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