Attack, Distract, Deflect, Golf: Trump’s Hectic Week of Mueller

President picks fight with dead senator and aide’s husband
Trump displays misleading maps on Islamic State’s Destruction

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By Margaret Talev

March 22, 2019 at 9:48 PM UTC

Updated on

March 23, 2019 at 3:20 PM UTC

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As Washington waited for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report to land, President Donald Trump delivered a week of surprises that caught even his own staff off guard, and finally ended in the most typical of settings: on the golf course.

Bouncing from one headline to the next, Trump picked fights with a dead senator and a top aide’s husband. He reversed longstanding U.S. policy to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. He showed off misleading maps of the destruction of Islamic State -- at one point, upside down.