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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
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The answer to the big question everyone's asking tonight ("Why didn't the White House have an appropriate response to today's indictments?") is simple: no bloc of GOP pols or voters is demanding Trump act appropriately, so politically he has no need to.

(Morally, he's a cipher.)
2/ I first said this a year ago: in moral, ethical, and even patriotic terms, Trump will ONLY do the right thing when FORCED (and it takes INTENSE pressure) to do it. His allies know this and CHOOSE not to push. In so doing they become responsible for what he does and doesn't do.
3/ Unless/until there's a moral, ethical and/or appeal-to-patriotism force applied to Trump by those he NEEDS to stay in power, he will do and say NOTHING a moral, ethical, and patriotic human (let alone leader) would do. How do we not know this by now? It's an obvious pathology.
4/ Donald Trump is *organically* moved by only *three* forces (like most who are pathologically narcissistic and venal): money, power/attention, and sex. To expect ANYTHING from him without threatening to TAKE AWAY one of these things is tilting at windmills and *always will be*.
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