Trump Reportedly Having a ‘Meltdown,’ Said He Seriously Wants to Fire Top Brass at DOJ, FBI
A fresh report from the New York Times takes a look inside the White House, where President Donald Trump, according to two sources, is having a “meltdown.”
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Maggie Haberman’s dispatch is the latest in a series of reports on Trump’s simmering fury over Monday’s FBI raid of his lawyer Michael Cohen.
That move, reportedly undertaken by the FBI based on a reference from Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, has “sent the president to new heights of outrage.”
Though his anger over the special counsel is “nothing new,” as the Times notes, on Tuesday he “spent much of the day brooding and fearful and near what two people close to the West Wing described as a ‘meltdown.'”
What’s more, he’s terrifying administration officials who fear he might make good on his gut and oust Mueller — as well as the top brass at the FBI and DOJ.
Per the Times:
Mr. Trump’s mood had begun to sour even before the raids on his lawyer. People close to the White House said that over the weekend, the president engaged in few activities other than dinner at the Trump International Hotel. He tuned into Fox News, they said, watched reports about the so-called deep state looking to sink his presidency and became unglued.
Mr. Trump angrily told his advisers that people were trying to undermine him and that he wanted to get rid of three top Justice Department officials — Jeff Sessions, the attorney general; Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who appointed Mr. Mueller; and Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director — according to two people familiar with what took place.
Trump “eventually calmed down and the anger abated,” according to the Times. And then the FBI raided his lawyer’s home.
Read the full report here, and hang on to your seats.
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