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发帖数: 4796 | 1 床铺倒台了的话，库什纳会是什么结果？
'Total panic' as 'shell-shocked' White House struggles to find impeachment
footing
While many in the Trump White House are battle-tested from the Mueller
investigation, this is starting to feel different, aides and advisers said.
WASHINGTON — White House officials were scrambling Thursday to figure out
how to counter the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, with one source
familiar with the situation describing a sense of “total panic” over the
past week at the lack of a plan to address the new reality.
There appears to be rising “anxiety, unease, and concern” — as one person
close to the White House described the mood in the West Wing — that the
whistleblower’s allegations could seriously wound the president and some of
those around him. “There’s not a lot of confidence that there’s no there
there,” this person said.
White House officials remained unsure of how to proceed, not only because
there is no apparent plan to deal with the situation, but because the
allegations are so serious that the usual methods the president has used to
successfully escape past controversies may not apply: “This doesn’t look
like something that’s going to be overtaken by the next news cycle,” the
person said.
Another person familiar with the discussions described the mood inside the
White House as “shell-shocked,” with increasing wariness that, as this
impeachment inquiry drags out, the likelihood increases that the president
could respond erratically and become “unmanageable.”
That concern was echoed by another source, who said that some around the
president anticipate he will engage in more “impulsive” behavior, with
pressure expected to build on him daily during the impeachment inquiry.
That’s sparking worries that Trump could display increasingly unpredictable
behavior and lash out in unexpected ways — both a presidential and a
political concern in an election year.
With his presidency facing what may be its biggest threat yet, Trump has
cycled from offense to defense, reviving a strategy that he viewed as
effective during Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. He tried to
downplay his request for the Ukrainian president to help investigate his
political rivals, to divert attention to actions by Democrats and
presidential contender Joe Biden, and to discredit the whistleblower as
having partisan motives.
But while many in the White House are battle-tested from the Mueller
investigation, this time is starting to feel different, aides and advisers
said.
For a president whose brand is viewed as strength, Wednesday’s press
conference made him look defeated, said one person familiar with the
situation. While Trump relished questions on the Russia investigation, he
seemed to be in no mood to answer questions about Ukraine.
Some allies of the president believe the damage could be mitigated, with
some seizing on the fact that the whistleblower did not have first-hand
knowledge of the controversial call in question between Trump and Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — a fact that they argue damages the
whistleblower's credibility. And, as often happens, when the president is
under siege, that fact energizes his core supporters in his defense.
But one Republican strategist close to the White House points out that the
president’s base approval ratings are already sky-high — and impeachment
will do little to win over new supporters. “There is no upside to having
the next four months focused on the president’s impeachment,” particularly
if it stymies his legislative agenda and dominates the news cycle.
Another of the sources said that those who were arguing that impeachment
could help the president weren’t fully grasping how much of a wild card his
response could be.
Worried White House officials have been reaching out to advisers for help in
assembling an impeachment response team. With the effort still in the early
phases, it remained unclear whether any type of war room-style effort would
come to fruition or what form it might take, according to a person briefed
on the plans.
But there was an acknowledgement that a coordinated legal and communications
strategy was needed, with a clear leader able to marshal a public relations
offensive to counter the release of the scathing whistleblower report and
the momentum its release has given Democratic impeachment efforts, that
person said.
The lack of a long-term strategic vision has been starkly visible, as when
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin
indicated they were not going to release the memo describing Trump's call
with the Ukrainian president — and then 48 hours later feeling that there
was no choice but to release the document, according to a source familiar
with the situation.
It is anticipated there will be more pressure now than during the
investigation by Mueller, who was mostly silent, speaking only through his
indictments.
One person who may become involved in developing an impeachment response is
Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s outside pit bull and former campaign manager,
according to the person involved in the matter. But Lewandowski told NBC
News that it was not accurate to suggest he would lead such an effort.
Full coverage: Trump impeachment inquiry
“For the last five years, I’ve done everything I can to support the
president and his agenda," he said, "but I have had no discussions with the
president and his team at all about joining a team to push back on this fake
impeachment narrative.”
Trump's outside lawyer from the Mueller investigation, Jay Sekulow, will be
involved in the impeachment efforts. “We will deal with matters as
appropriate," Sekulow said when reached by NBC News for comment.
The White House currently lacks a lawyer experienced in impeachment, now
that Emmet Flood, who worked on the Clinton impeachment and guided the White
House through the end of the Mueller investigation, has left. The current
White House counsel, Pat Cipollone, lacks that type of experience.
One source familiar with the White House strategy said that overall,
officials were nowhere near the point of bringing people on board or setting
up war rooms — but acknowledge they need a coordinated, all hands-on-deck
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