Thread by @Monaheart1229

This is very well stated. Trump didn't have a legal leg to stand on in his efforts to block the Congressional Subpoenas for testimony of WH officials in re the Mueller report, but his threats actually show his weakness. #SaturdayThoughts
washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/…

2-"Suing a committee chairman and his own accounting firm. Telling people who don’t work for him anymore that they can’t testify to Congress. Having his personal lawyer tell the Treasury Department not to release Trump’s tax returns to Congress. These are all actions President

3-"Trump has taken against Congress in the past few days, evidence that he’s going full-court to stop lawmakers from investigating him. It’s an unprecedentedly brazen move for a president. But Joshua Huder, a fellow at the Government Affairs Institute at Georgetown University,

4-"says it’s actually a sign of Trump’s weakness. Past presidents have negotiated behind the scenes with Congress when they don’t want to turn over information. They’ve relied on influential allies on Capitol Hill to help make their case. Trump is forced to take the most extreme

5-"measures because he doesn’t have enough soft power to do that, Huder argues. As a result, Trump is forcing himself into high-profile legal and political battles he has a real risk of losing. "The president lacks a lot of informal modes of influence,” Huder said,

6-"“and he can't convince the allies he does have." Trump’s weakness has manifested itself in other ways that have cost him politically.Trump spent nearly all of his political capital at the beginning of this year trying to get Congress to fund a border wall along the U.S.-

7-"Mexico border. He failed when enough Republicans joined with Democrats to pass a spending bill that didn’t include the amount of money he wanted. The longest shutdown in federal government history failed to win over lawmakers to Trump’s side — or any new money for his wall.

8-"(And let’s not forget that presidential candidate Donald Trump campaigned on Mexico paying for the wall, another place where his negotiations seem to have fallen through.)" ~excerpts from WaPo, 4/27/19