Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

Trump Wants Loyalty. He's Really Bad at Finding It.

Jonathan Bernstein's morning links.

March 29, 2018 at 1:36 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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It's easy to get used to all the craziness with this president and this White House. But something about the 286th tweet in Dan Drezner's epic thread really got to me:

To begin with: What's astonishing about this isn't just President Donald Trump's behavior. It's also that White House staff -- and given turnover, multiple generations of White House staff -- is so eager to run down their boss to reporters.