MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Current # 1 most popular story @ Politico.com by Burgess Everett & Eliana Johnson, March 14, 7:19 pm
basically reports that Team Trump has given up on assisting and advising Trump:
[....] It didn’t have to be that way, Republicans say, especially if Trump had engaged more consistently with senators and made a relatively modest agreement to change the National Emergencies Act to rein in presidential power.
It also was a reminder that White House aides have long acknowledged the futility of speaking for or negotiating on the president’s behalf, a position they now are openly conveying to lawmakers: passing along his tweets rather than attempting to twist arms or hash out a compromise themselves [....]