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    1. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      Trump, in his mind, doesn't trust anyone and he doesn't rely on anyone. "I'm the only one that matters." "I did it my way."

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    2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      Which means that to the extent he trusts anyone, he either sees them as an extension of himself, or he doesn't see them.

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    3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      I've talked about this before, how it was always the women you heard about having "walk in privileges". Kellyanne Conway. Ivanka Trump.

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    4. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      If a man walks into his office, unsummoned and unannounced, that's a threat, a challenge, a power play. But a woman? That's flattering.

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    5. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      Hope Hicks doesn't even have "walk in privileges" because she doesn't need them. She's already there.

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    6. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      All those goofy interviews I've dissected have a note that she's in the room, even if she doesn't show up on the record.

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    7. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      She's there at his elbow to nudge him if he says the wrong thing, to take the conversation off the record and redact as needed.

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    8. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      For her to handle Trump in interviews, she has to know where the landmines are buried and which rails are electrified. More than he does.

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    9. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      And in fact, it's because she's there and keeping track of this stuff that he *doesn't* need to know any of this. But he thinks he does.

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    10. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      She's like an external brain, the way a lot of people use their smart phones. To him, anything she *does* is actually him doing it.

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      Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

      Hope Hicks the woman is just part of the furniture, part of the landscape of his life. He doesn't trust her, because there's no her to trust

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        2. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          And Schiller? The biggest hint of how Trump sees him is that he sent Schiller to fire Comey. Not as a "trusted lieutenant", of course...

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        3. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          ...because Trump trusts no one. Sending Schiller to fire Comey was "doing it [his] way". In Trump's mind, he did it personally.

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        4. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Direct quote from the article: "send it to Keith, he'll get it to me". Schiller was an interface between him and the world, an extension.

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        5. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          So Trump can't help but take it personally when Schiller is called on the carpet to testify about Trump's 2013 Russia trip.

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        6. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Because it is personal. Congressional investigators are seizing him by the right hand, without so much as a by-your-leave.

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        7. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          I don't think there's much chance of Schiller blabbing like Carter Page. He's still in the "discreet personal security" business...

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        8. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          ...so he can kiss his career goodbye if he doesn't keep his client's secrets, and by all accounts, he's still loyal to Trump.

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        9. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          But even if he does nothing but back up his boss on the Hill, it's still going to have an impact..

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        10. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          First, psychologically on Trump. As I said, he can't help but take this personally. And it's got to be making some minions squirm, too.

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        11. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Because they know if Schiller has to throw someone under the bus, it won't be Trump and it won't be himself.

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        12. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Second, any answers that Schiller gives about his boss's stay in Russia in 2013 on the record can create discrepancies with other evidence.

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        13. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Which could give Mueller's investigators an opening to tear the conflicting accounts apart.

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        14. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Remember the phrase "the cover-up is worse than the crime"? It's also, paradoxically, often more obvious than the crime.

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        15. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Twenty people honestly describing the same event will still have discrepancies, but nothing like twenty people separately lying about it.

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        16. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          You can see this, if you've been following the people tweeting Carter Page's testimony. No coordination with Sessions or Lewandowski.

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        17. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          The criminal conspiracy here consists of a bunch of arrogant, self-entitled slackers who never considered they might be called to account.

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        18. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Trump's official description of his 2013 trip is that he was barely there; basically touched down for the pageant, one short night, gone.

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        19. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          I expect Schiller to back that up 100%. But he'll be doing so on the record.

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        20. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          And any discrepancy between that and other accounts (including Trump's own wildly varying descriptions at different times) justifies digging

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        21. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Now, as the article points out, this is playing out while Trump is doing high-stakes diplomacy half a world away.

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        22. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          It's kind of a perfect metaphor for Trump's own presidential nightmare, the disconnect between his expectation and reality.

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        23. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          Trump thought he was going to be the King of America, the way he and others had built up Obama's stature to mythical levels.

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        24. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          The media would fawn over him! The NYT would finally welcome him as a Manhattan socialite! He'd tell people what to do and they'd do it.

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        25. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          When Trump said there will be a healthcare bill on his desk on day 1, he thought that was the whole job. Saying what he expected to happen.

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        26. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          And he has since then said, in so many words, that he still doesn't understand why it didn't happen like that.

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        27. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          He thought taking the presidency would be like acquiring a company. America, a division of the Trump Org. The White House a remote office.

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        28. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          He'd still live in his penthouse, make some pronouncements, use the oval office and rose garden for photo ops and ceremonies.

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        29. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          And keeping Schiller by his side, his fixer and his buffer between him and the world, was part of his attempt to hold onto what he knew.

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        30. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          That's what that bit about having Schiller make McDonalds runs because the White House kitchen couldn't match them was about.

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        31. Alexandra Erin‏ @AlexandraErin 7 Nov 2017

          All of Trump's much-derided food tastes come down to a single overriding concern: consistency.

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