The media needs to stop calling them "briefings". They're not. They're campaign presentations.

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9. True, but that's always been his strategy

His political strategy, to the extent you could say he has one, is largely to give up on swaying anyone's opinion and instead focus on firing up those who already side with him, to make sure they donate and vote.

He's trying to position himself as someone who saved America from disaster. Part of that is for the disaster to seem and even to be as big as possible, but for him to be doing things that, come November when things are getting better, his people will remember him as having been the man in charge.