Earlier this week, Donald Trump told a reporter, “Quiet, piggy,” and later lashed out at another reporter in the Oval Office. On Washington Week with The Atlanticpanelists joined to discuss what might be behind the president's comments and more.
November was “a really tough month for Trump,” Toluse Olorunnipa, a staff writer for the paper. Atlantic– said last night. A year ago, Trump was “at the height of his political power” and his first 10 months in office “were largely signs that little could be done to stop him.” However, as Olorunnipa noted, “we had elections in the first half of this month.”
After big Democratic victories in New York, New Jersey and Virginia, Trump is starting to realize “that he's going to be a lame duck very soon,” Olorunnipa argues, and “people in his own party are starting to look past him.”
Meanwhile, Trump signed a law ordering the release of materials from the government's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein. “I get the feeling he's scared,” Jonathan Karl, ABC News' chief Washington correspondent, said last night. “Republicans who had been completely pleading with him” “suddenly get up and go in a different direction.”
I join the editor-in-chief AtlanticJeffrey Goldberg to discuss this and more: Lee Ann Caldwell, Chief Washington Correspondent Washer; Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent New York Times; Carl, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News; and Olorunnipa, Staff Writer Atlantic.
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