Analysis: It may have been one of the worst weeks of Trump's presidency, concentrated in just a few harrowing days.
while fellow Republicans declined to defend the president's behavior, began to distance themselves more clearly from his effort to use executive authority to build a border wall and cheered his failure to strike a deal with Kim.
The public session brought signs Trump was losing some steam — albeit at the margins — with his cheering section: fellow Republicans in Congress.chose to attack Cohen's characterAnd while the dam has hardly broken, Trump is seeing more cracks in the coalition of Republicans willing to support the national emergency he declared to fund a border wall without congressional consent.
Alexander stopped short of saying he would vote for a House-passed resolution terminating the emergency declaration, but he escalated the pressure on Trump from within his own party to abandon his plan to execute an end-run around Congress, with the effort to nullify his emergency declaration now potentially just one GOP vote away from approval. On Tuesday, with Trump in Vietnam, 13 House Republicans voted with a unified House Democratic Caucus to cancel the emergency.
Not only was Trump, the leader of the free world, unable to bend Kim, the tin pot dictator of one of the world's last remaining"rogue" nations, to his will, Kim left the deal-seeking Trump walking away from the altar amid a dispute between the two countries over just what was in dispute.
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