MEDIA/ROBERT MUELLER/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On a day when all eyes were on special counsel Robert Mueller, President Donald Trump had a busy Friday [12-7-18] of his own. And his flurry of personnel announcements, teases of more to come and biting comments about his former secretary of state were seen by some as an attempt to get the news media to focus on something else. ‘He likes to control as much as possible the news cycles and put out front whatever helps to minimize bad coverage,’ said Mark J. Rozell, dean of the George Mason University Schar School of Policy and Government. But Republican strategist Ron Bonjean rejected the connection because Trump’s activity came Friday before Mueller and prosecutors filed expected court documents related to two key witnesses in the Russia investigation.”
–Christal Hayes, Ledyard King and Maureen Grope, “President Donald Trump made plenty of his own news while waiting for Mueller developments,” USA Today, December 7, 2018 4:57 pm