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Video: At Disastrous Press Conference, Trump Patronizes Black Reporter

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EPR-radar2/16/2017 2:26:30 pm PST

re: #228 KGxvi

If Trump told Flynn to tell the Russian ambassador that he’d ease or lift the sanctions, he’s done. If Trump told Flynn to lie to Pence, he’s also probably done, because it would logically follow that even if he didn’t tell Flynn to inform the Russians of his intent, he later found out about it and approved. Having a subordinate lie to the Vice President isn’t historically something that would ruin a president - there have often been frayed and distant relationships between POTUS and VPOTUS.

Trump may have hanged himself today when he said that he didn’t tell Flynn to talk to the Russians, but he would have told him to if he didn’t think Flynn was already talking to them.

Analysis like this is very sensible and may be a category error. I think the only thing that matters for Trump staying in office is how well he polls among Republicans in state level polling of states with Republican Senators and in district-level polling of (R) congressional districts.