As Donald Trump watches Republican Party lawmakers balk at his demands, he is seeking support elsewhere to soothe him after another legislative defeat.
That is the opinion of MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough and Politico’s Jonathan Martin, who both reacted to Tuesday’s events where the House and Senate both vote overwhelmingly — and in a bipartisan manner — to release the Jeffrey Epstein files at the same time Trump was buttering up Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud in the Oval Office.
After sharing clips of Trump praising the Saudi prince and then holding a state dinner for him, Scarborough noted the president was seemingly trying to avoid the personal Epstein loss in Congress despite his earlier protestations that the files are a “hoax.”
According to the “Morning Joe” co-host, “This all comes with the background of — Mika [Brzezinski] is going to get into the news in a minute here — of Donald Trump being rolled for the first time in an extraordinarily dramatic way by Republicans in the House and the Senate.”
“And by backbenchers, frankly,” he added. “I mean, look, no offense to [Kentucky Republican] Thomas Massie, but he’s somebody who’s sort of been a bit of a bomb thrower, you know, not somebody who was the modern Sam Rayburn there, necessarily. And he basically said, ‘I got the votes, man.’ And once that was clear, Trump had no choice but to fold.”
“Think about the timing of this,” he suggested. “So two weeks ago, up and down the ballot, coast to coast, the Republican Party loses every election decisively. Even the White House gets the message.”
“Two weeks later to the night, two weeks later, they got one more foreign leader coming through Washington for one more grip and grin and they have this lavish state dinner. Talk about not getting the message right. The voters say, why aren’t you focused on us, man? And two weeks later, what are they doing? They’re once again focused on foreign policy. Some other country. Who are these folks here? Who is this guy?”
That led Martin to suggest, “I just think it’s so, it’s so contradicts the message from two weeks ago. And it shows that Trump is going to do what he wants to do. And what does he want to do? He wants to sort of buddy-buddy up with these folks. He wants to enjoy the trappings of the office. And as long as you can’t change that, you can’t change the fundamental political challenge this White House has.”
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