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The Resistance Is Coming From Inside the White House
Trump staffers are already known to ignore the president, and it’s a tendency that will only continue.
Who’s with me?
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President Donald Trump likes setting records. He sort of did so on Monday by beating the previous record for pathetic presidential denials, which had been held by Bill Clinton after he denied that he had become irrelevant after Republicans won majorities in Congress. Trump: “Nobody disobeys my orders.” Which is, well, what a president more or less has to say when it becomes extremely well-documented that his White House staff has been doing exactly that.
As Dan Drezner put it: