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    Trump Is Governing by Grievance

    The president still hasn’t learned to compartmentalize—a liability that will become more pronounced heading into the 2020 election.
    by Peter Nicholas May 07, 2019 5 minutes
    Source: Leah Millis / Reuters

    It was a meeting about maritime shipping, but President Donald Trump had other things on his mind. As he spoke privately with Republican lawmakers in the White House’s Roosevelt Room, Attorney General William Barr was all over TV testifying to a Senate committee about the Russia investigation. Trump had been watching the live coverage, he’d been briefed on Barr’s testimony—and sitting with his guests on Wednesday, he unburdened himself about the unfairness of it all, said a person familiar with the matter.

    “He is worked up about it,” said this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss the private meeting. “He’s not going to let it go. He’s not going to accept the advice to let it go. He’s not going to stop tweeting. He’s not going to change his approach.”

    If Trump is to notch any meaningful

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