Perspective: William Barr seems to believe Donald Trump is too emotional to be guilty
President Trump listens during a briefing on drug trafficking in March. According to the Mueller report, Trump has often expressed anger and frustration. By Monica Hesse Monica Hesse Style reporter Email Bio Follow Columnist April 18 at 9:19 PM Have you spent any time in the past 22 months worrying, in an existential way, about whether President Trump tried to scuttle a federal investigation into Russian interference at the core of America’s political process? Fear not.
Throughout the 448-page Mueller report, the president is very emotional. He is forever “becoming angry” or “expressing anger” or “expressing frustration.” He “was furious” at Jeff Sessions for not protecting him. He “screamed” at and “lambasted” his attorney general, demanding, “How could you let this happen?” Regarding perceived “horrible treatment” of an adviser, the president was “upset for weeks.
Can you imagine how hard she would have tried not to put herself in that situation, knowing how eager people have been throughout our political history to hold women’s emotions against them? Anti-suffragists claimed women’s rash temperament should exclude them from voting. Stubborn voters claimed women’s rash temperament should exclude them from running for office .
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