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brooklynite

(94,334 posts)
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 02:20 PM Nov 2018

Trump and Aides Getting 'Spooked' About a Coming GOP Midterms 'Slaughter'

Source: Daily Beast

In recent months, President Trump has insisted that a “red wave” is coming this November and that Republicans would hold onto, and even expand, their majorities in the House and the Senate.

But as the election has gotten closer, the president’s outlook has increasingly soured, and that optimism he once exhibited from the campaign trail has been replaced by tangible fear over what a Democratic House next year might mean to his administration and inner circle.

“He’s definitely more spooked than he was before,” a senior West Wing official told The Daily Beast. “Several of us are expecting to spend more time [testifying] on the Hill soon.”

In public, Trump world is still arguing that Republicans will hold on to control of the House, with the president triumphantly tweeting taunts at the media for failing to acknowledge just how big an impact he is having in motivating voters.

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But three sources close to the president say that Trump and his aides are privately far more pessimistic. Recently, the president has stressed in conversations with confidants that if things go south for the GOP in November, he won’t take the blame and is prepared to scapegoat other party leaders. In Trump’s West Wing, words such as “slaughter” and “massacre” have come up among political, policy, and communications advisers in their private predictions of what this month could bring, according to three sources present for such conversations.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-and-aides-getting-spooked-about-a-coming-gop-midterms-slaughter?ref=scroll

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vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. Bob Mueller is cleaning the town
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 02:31 PM
Nov 2018

You better watch out
You better not cry
Better not pout
I'm telling you why
Bob Mueller is cleaning the town.

He's making a list
He's checking it twice;
He's gonna find out who's naughty or nice
Bob Mueller is cleaning the town.

He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you're awake
He knows when you've been bad or good
So be good for goodness sake!

turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
4. I can't wait for these asshole's to go before a committee and explain what they have been
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 02:42 PM
Nov 2018

doing...................some of them since the family has been defrauding the public for years.....................FUCK THEM...............

Juneboarder

(1,732 posts)
8. I would love to see that happen, too!
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 03:20 PM
Nov 2018

I'm doubtful it will ever reach that point, though. We've seen this before (on a smaller scale) during the W era and nothing ever happened. Is it sad that I'd rather have W in office than this stupid cheetoh von fuckenstein?

cstanleytech

(26,236 posts)
6. Thats why Trump is trying the dog whistle over the caravan in Mexico because he is hoping it will
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 02:54 PM
Nov 2018

give the Repugnant party the ability to rally their voters to the poll but what he and the Repugnants failed to realize that they have lost a significant number of the independent voters while at the same time they have energized our side greatly.

Progressive Jones

(6,011 posts)
13. He's telling the idiots that the people of the caravan
Fri Nov 2, 2018, 06:34 PM
Nov 2018

are coming here to vote Democratic!
The idiots believe him, no doubt.

Javaman

(62,503 posts)
9. if we do take back the house, they haven't the foggiest notion regarding the ton of brinks about to
Thu Nov 1, 2018, 04:09 PM
Nov 2018

befall them.

good, fuck them.

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