Trump's own words caught up with him

Since before he was elected president, Donald Trump has operated in the belief that he can control his narrative through sheer force of will — and words. Day after day, he floods the airwaves with messages — ad-libbed speeches, off the cuff remarks and incendiary tweets — whose effect is to keep the world’s attention squarely on him.


As he explained at the July rally, in Granite City, Ill., the advantage of never relinquishing the spotlight is “it’s covered live, much of it, and when I say it they can’t do anything about it.”

But this week, Trump’s relentless stream of words seems to have come back to haunt him, and may yet make the president want to reconsider his “it’s all about me” communications strategy. Trump’s problems largely grew out of things that he himself is alleged to have said.

It began on Sunday, when he issued a flurry of tweets blasting the New York Times for its report that White House counsel Don McGahn has been cooperating extensively with special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

McGahn has so far sat for 30 hours of questioning from Mueller’s team, detailing Trump’s private statements about the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the president’s anger at Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself in the Russia investigation. Unlike Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani (more on him in a moment), McGahn represents the office of the presidency, and, according to the Times, felt compelled to testify to Mueller out of fears that the president was setting him up to take the fall on possible obstruction charges.

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