It’s The Narrative That Matters

Two days ago the AG and FBI Director admitted that the Administration that imposed a Muslim ban as one of its first acts had invited an Al Qaeda terrorist onto a military base for training. Yet no one seems to have reported that.https://t.co/OouAju9NLt

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) May 20, 2020

And this:

The president is heading to Michigan today to go to the Ford plant. Here, he's stepping on his own message before he gets there > https://t.co/ZJFGcPZdgo

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 20, 2020

Is this a question of politics? Or of the President’s mental state, and his threats to abuse his power?

Update: just to be fair:

Deleted an earlier tweet on this to add add'l context here - some of the president's advisers have tried to get him to stop broadly talking about "fraud" in context of absentee ballots. Instead, he goes all in here as he heads to Michigan, guaranteeing this as local headline > https://t.co/ZJFGcPZdgo

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 20, 2020