President Donald Trump.

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Whenever President Donald Trump does something strange and outrageous, you will often hear this warning from one of your friends who thinks he is very smart: He’s just trying to distract you. He did this on purpose. It’s all a plan.

Maybe sometimes. But more often, Trump is just being impulsive and impetuous.

Consider, for example, Trump’s tweets 16 days ago, alleging that Barack Obama had ordered a “tapp” on his phones. Was this a way of “distracting” from the investigations of his links to Russia? Was it an effort to reframe the issue, as a matter of domestic politics waged by his enemies?

If the tweets were part of a strategy to do that, it was a terrible strategy. If you adored this article so you would like to acquire more info relating to Donaild Trump nicely visit our web page.

On Monday, FBI Director James Comey not only told the House Intelligence Committee that he had “no information” to support Trump’s accusation about wiretapping, but he also, unusually, confirmed the existence of an FBI investigation into whether Russia coordinated with Trump associates in its efforts to interfere in the 2016 US election.