WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump, now in an unprecedented isolation since his presidency, is set to leave Washington this weekend for a two-week break at his Mar-A-Lago resort. When he returns in January next year, he will be ready for what could be his most difficult years in office.
His acceptance of the American people is no different from what he was when he started working in the White House, as his hardliners did not change their position. Republican elected officials remain reluctant to secede. But his party suffered a severe shake during the midterm elections, and the judicial process continues to tighten up against him personally. Democratic officials, who were recently elected to the House of Representatives, are preparing to challenge his powers by asking and investigating the court.
Search continues
Trump's search for an alternative to the White House chief of staff, who will leave at the end of this month, was an indication of the current situation in the White House. The White House chief of staff - in any other presidency - is sensitive and vital. But for Trump - at the moment - perhaps more important than ever. But the potential candidates for the job seem to have run away from this work. Even the president wrote in a chant a few days ago that he would appoint budget director Mike Mulvani as White House chief of staff, not permanently.
The announcement came hours after former New Jersey governor Chris Christie rejected the post. Christie spent about an hour with the president a week ago, talking about the job. But his decision to dismiss the action came at the end of the week when Nick Ayers, the vice president's chief of staff, Mike Pines, who was to replace Kelly, abruptly withdrew. Several names appeared to the public, but none of them accepted the receipt of the White House Chief of Staff.
Christie and Trump have long been friends for many years before becoming candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Christie was supposed to beat Trump in this competition. But when the opposite happened, he approved Trump's candidacy immediately, which later asked him to head the transition plan. But a few days after the election, Christie was removed as director of the transition plan. Trump then asked Christie to ask for more work in the administration. But Christie rejected it. Finally, he was said to succeed former Justice Minister William Barr.
Christie maintained a cordial relationship with the president. Although he holds some political prerogatives as a conservative politician, he has qualifications that most of the people named for the post of White House chief of staff do not have. Trump certainly needs these qualifications next year. These include: management experience, political work experience, communication skills, independent political relations and, most importantly, legal experience, as a former Minister of Justice.
Perhaps Christie concluded that it was not the right time to take part in the Trump administration and to work for the president, who rarely accepted the advice of one of his advisers, whose unpredictable, unpredictable behavior could be more damaging in the months to come.
The fragility of the president's position
The decisions taken by Ayers, Christie et al., Confirm the fragility of Trump's position. At a time when he needs all his strength, wisdom and direct support from those around him, Trump seems to be the head of a department that can weaken him more, rather than strengthen him.
The Office of the Legal Adviser in the White House is suffering from a shortage of staff. At the same time as the administration is heading for a year, it will require a lot of congressional documents and the possible trial of the president if the reports of the Special Adviser, Robert Mueller, require that. Many of the White House has gone into private sector business, and more could come in the coming months.
There are still many loyalists so far. Including the adviser to President Killian Conway, the White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, the daughter of President Ivanka and her husband Gareed Kouchner.
For Trump, many of his well-trusted advisers are now in the hands of prosecutors. For a long time, Trump's lawyer, Mike Cohen, had said that he was so loyal to the president that Trump was ready to sacrifice his life, but now turned against him. Last week, Cohen was sentenced to three years in jail for crimes he committed. Cohen told the court that he had committed some of these crimes, including lying to Congress, to hide Trump's "dirty" actions.
In an interview with ABC Television, Cohen repeated what he said in court that he was acting on orders from Trump, where he paid the money to two women the president had established. Trump was accused of being a "bizarre liar". For his part, Trump Cohen was accused of lying, but the credibility of the president on these issues has become quite flimsy. He initially denied knowing about any money he paid to pornographic actresses Karen McDougall and Stormy Daniels, but his story changed frequently, whenever evidence of what he said was available.
Another person who protected the president, now on the other side, is David Baker, who works in the media. He is the publisher of the National Inquirer, who defended Trump through a campaign to buy and destroy stories damaging to the president, While fabricating false stories about former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. On the day the court sentenced Cohen to prison, Becker admitted that Enquirer paid McDougall $ 150,000 to keep her story from being publicized.
Another thing that is no less troubling for Tramp will be the role of Alan Fesselberg, who was the financial director of the Trump charity organization, who should know a lot about the internal financial business of the Trump Empire. He was granted immunity not to prosecute, if he cooperated with the court. At the same time, Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, accused the FBI of collaborating with investigators. The former director of the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort, is in jail for crimes he has committed unrelated to the campaign. Former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, a business partner of Manavort, was found guilty by the court for his role in Manavort's work.
no one knows
No one outside the special adviser's office, Robert Mueller, knows what the final results of his investigations will reveal about issues such as the relationship with Russia, violations of the Trump campaign financing law, and the financial dealings of his charity. The same can be said of the work of federal prosecutors, on South Avenue in New York.
Congress is unlikely to sue the president for violations of the election finance law, but Congress has tightened Trump's grip on many of his operations, which have come under the scrutiny of prosecutors. During this time, the US president can only wait anxiously for where things will turn out. But he will continue to respond to the charges against him, in an attempt to minimize the importance of the prosecutors' work, but he does so from a worried and shaky position.
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