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In their book Regime Change, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan offer a telling account of the way President Donald Trump deals with a bad news cycle this term: As the White House debated how to manage the fallout from its chaotic slashing of the federal government last year, they determined that they needed “distractions.” There were two proposals: they could release videos of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s interview with a confused Joe Biden. Or they could announce the grand opening of camps in Guantánamo Bay to detain migrants.
“They opted for announcing Guantánamo,” Haberman and Swan wrote. “There was no better counter for a screwup than an outrage.”
Thursday night, Trump dipped back into the formula. With his approval rating stalled at record lows, the war with Iran escalating and the cost of living continuing to weigh on voters, he used a 24-minute address from the White House’s East Room to revive his favorite political grievance: the 2020 election he lost.
Trump spent the opening minutes ticking through his administration’s claimed accomplishments. “We are doing great,” he said, sounding hoarse. Then, after a deep exhale, sounding as though he were about to leap from a diving board, Trump announced the release of declassified intelligence that he said exposes “shocking vulnerabilities” in American elections.
