Analysis: As Trump swaggers after Mueller probe's end, he creates new policy controversies
WASHINGTON — There was a renewed swagger in the White House this week in the days after Atty. Gen. William Barr cleared his boss, President Trump, of criminal wrongdoing.
Kellyanne Conway, Trump's outspoken defender, held forth with reporters on the West Wing driveway, decrying the "insult" of allegations that overshadowed the White House for two years. Inside, spokesman Hogan Gidley gleefully marked up the names of the president's perceived enemies in an editorial cartoon listing them in March Madness-style brackets. And Trump boldly ignored advisers in opening a new fight on repealing Obamacare.
On Thursday, Trump praised Barr's summary as a "beautiful conclusion," and a close ally called it a "new lease" for a president known for defying the conventions of the office.
"There's no overplaying that," Steven Groves, a deputy White House press secretary, said of the special counsel's conclusion that Trump and his campaign did not criminally conspire with Russia in its interference in the 2016 election.
Others, including some Republicans, disagree, believing that Trump and his allies could well overplay their hand. And even as Trump swaggers, the last week has shown yet again that he can trip himself up, given his impetuous decision-making style and disregard even for the flawed policy process of his administration.
Officials are still cleaning up the policy mess days after the president, in a tweet, reversed Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin's just-announced sanctions aimed at further squeezing North Korea, baffling lawmakers, allies and foreign policy professionals. His unexpected announcement nominating Stephen Moore, a partisan advocate of Trump's economic agenda, for the politically independent Federal Reserve Board, was controversial enough; then it was reported Moore owes the government $75,000 in debt and unpaid taxes.
But it was Trump's decision to renew the assault on the 9-year-old Affordable Care Act that most alarmed fellow Republicans, just months after the issue contributed to the party's election loss of its House majority.
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What part of “DOES NOT EXONERATE” is so difficult to grasp? 
All that orange flesh sloshing back and forth... 