Michael Cohen - The President Who Cannot Be Questioned [View all]

If you grew up with siblings; or hell, if you survived the emotional Thunderdome known as American grade school, you learned early on that there were lines you didn’t cross. Call your brother “stupid,” you got grounded. Tell a girl on the playground she’s “ugly,” you got marched to the principal’s office by the ear. “Piggy”? That bought you a note home, a stern talking-to, and, depending on your zip code, a slipper to the backside.

But what do you do when the kid hurling playground insults isn’t eight years old with chocolate milk on his breath, but the 79-year-old President of the United States, the most powerful man on the planet, who keeps talking like the world’s oldest third-grader caught in an endless lunchroom tantrum? Where do you send him? Time-out? Detention? Mar-a-Lago already is detention, only with more comfortable seating.

This week, America got another reminder that something is fundamentally off-kilter inside Trump’s operation, and it’s bleeding straight out of his own mouth. And no, it’s not a diagnosis. It’s not a medical issue. It’s the consequences of pressure, bad advice, and a political strategy built on grievance gasoline with a match permanently lit. When the walls start closing in, Trump doesn’t adapt; he detonates.

Let’s start with Mar-a-Lago, where good questions go to die. CBS’s Nancy Cordes, professional, prepared, and doing the job the First Amendment demands, asked the president about Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the D.C. shooting of two National Guard members. Lakanwal isn’t the cartoon villain Trump’s been selling. The man worked with the CIA in Kabul for a decade. He came in during the evacuation and later received asylum under Trump’s own administration.

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