Trump's had you looking at squirrels for years, here's another example.
"In our earlier talk, Dowd stressed that the Trump White House fully cooperated with Mueller's investigation, and that on more than one occasion Trump instructed Dowd to inform Mueller that the president respected the prosecutor's work. But how could one say Trump fully cooperated when the president was, at the same time, loudly denouncing the probe as a "witch hunt" and a "hoax," and bashing Mueller's prosecutors as "17 angry Democrats"?
The answer lay in Trump's longtime habit of operating on two levels. On the surface, Trump sets off controversies, often using Twitter to say something outrageous that sets the media agenda and leaves some commentators with their hair on fire. At the same time, below the surface, Trump is actually taking steps to get a particular job done.
That was true with the Russia probe. For public consumption, Trump was denouncing Mueller and trashing his team. Behind the scenes, Trump was cooperating and making sure his staff did the same. The Trump White House offered everyone (except, of course, the president himself) to be interviewed, and reams and reams of do ents that other White Houses might have withheld on the grounds of executive or other privilege. So Trump simultaneously attacked and cooperated.
Asked about the attacks, Dowd said Mueller understood that Trump had to mount a political defense on the Russia issue. "Bob understood this, it was political," Dowd said. " [Trump] had to handle the political side, and that was his way of doing it with his tweets and his comments ... Bob was a big boy about the political side of it. He understood the president had to address the politics of it. He couldn't just say nothing. People were pounding him about this thing every day, both privately and publicly, and he had to take [Mueller] on."
Mueller's only real concern about the president's rhetoric, Dowd said, was the worry that it might send a message to Trump's side not to cooperate.
"Early on, when the president started teeing off on Mueller, Mueller indicated to me that he was worried that some people might not cooperate," Dowd said. "I said, well we've encouraged everyone to cooperate, and if you want me to say something publicly about that, and the president, we're happy to do it. And we did. We encouraged everyone who was asked to cooperate ... Bob was satisfied with that. It never came up again."
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what a complete pussy Trump has made you.
