Opinion: If there’s one thing that’s obvious from the Ukraine controversy, it’s that President Donald Trump could use more “no men'
President Trump’s chief of staff, cast aside like so many of the Trump’s advisers, irked the president with his efforts to bring some discipline to him and his operation. But if there’s one thing that’s obvious from the Ukraine controversy, it’s that the president could use more “no men.”During Roman triumphs celebrating military victories, a slave was supposedly given the task of riding behind the conquering general and constantly whispering in his ear, “Remember, you are mortal.
It’s not that there aren’t legitimate questions about Ukraine and the role of various players there in the 2016 election and aftermath. But they are appropriately handled by the Justice Department, which is currently looking into the sources of the Russia investigation that so obsessed the media and that largely came up empty.
Did no one think of that? Trump is, obviously, responsible for his own decisions and conduct, but it’s truly bizarre that it was the president’s personal lawyer, of all people, who has his fingerprints all over this. One of themes of the Mueller report was Trump’s advisers ignoring him when he asked for foolhardy things or dissuading him from risky schemes. This, in itself, was discomfiting, but it kept Trump on the right side of the line. For all that the president scorns, say, Don McGahn, the former White House counsel’s prudence and professionalism kept Trump from unnecessary peril.
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