trump used his familiar strategy to ward off criticism of their stupid mistake, He attacks, attacks, attacks. It is an old Roy Cohn lesson that he learned. Of course his attacks are peppered with lies, misinformation, and denials. What did we expect from a convicted Felon (34).
Trump has privately expressed frustration about the incident, people familiar with his thinking said, but he has made a strategic decision to paper over his annoyance and cede no ground in public. Instead, he has attacked the credibility of the Atlantic magazine and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, long a target of Trump’s ire. And he has played down concerns from former administration officials, Democrats and some Republicans that the episode exposed serious national security vulnerabilities.
“It’s all a witch hunt,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday. “There was no harm done because the attack was unbelievably successful,” he added. “And that’s the thing that you should be talking about.”
The circle-the-wagons strategy is the same one Trump has used in past moments of crisis, dating back to his days as a real-estate developer in New York: Keep the fire aimed at the media, deny wrongdoing and raise questions about the validity of the allegations.
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