ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Donald Trump is giving Americans a glimpse of the fury raging inside him as a pivotal moment nears for special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, and different strands of political and legal vulnerability swirling around the President become ever more threatening. Trump launched his most personal attack to date against Mueller in a tweetstorm Sunday [7-29-18] unleashed just two days before the special counsel’s office takes its first prosecution — that of the President’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort — to trial in Virginia…Trump’s tweets on Sunday represented his most specific attempt yet to discredit any findings of the Mueller investigation into alleged election collusion with Russians, following clear signs that his previous assaults have been effective in hardening the opinion of GOP voters against the probe. The attacks are not simply a window into his own rage, they also represent a coherent hardball strategy to unite his ever loyal political base and other Republicans behind him. With 100 days to go until midterm elections, that could be tough for the GOP.”
–Stephen Collinson, “Trump opens window into his rage with Mueller attack,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, July 30, 2018 8:08 am