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Trump denies 'temper tantrum' in angry public episode

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President Donald Trump ratcheted up his feud with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, turning an event organized to announce a multibillion-dollar aid package to farmers into a nearly half-hour-long diatribe against his Democratic rivals.
As for himself, Trump once again proclaimed: „I’m an extremely stable genius.“
Trump’s anger at House Democrats‘ investigations had been steadily mounting for weeks, but Pelosi’s accusation that the President had engaged in a „cover-up“ sent him over the edge, prompting him to swear off policy talks with Democrats and shine a spotlight on what he considers Democrats‘ „phony investigations.“
Now the President’s advisers and allies are worrying about the fallout of his display of anger and Trump is signaling that he is prepared to dig in, multiple sources close to him told CNN.
Made-for-TV drama
In conversations with advisers in the 24 hours after Wednesday morning’s made-for-TV drama, Trump has seesawed between emotions: lamenting the endless cloud of suspicion Democrats‘ investigations have kept over him while also saying he feels emboldened and empowered by this latest fight. One source who speaks with the President described him as „on fire“ and newly „empowered.“
Fueling his latest drive, two sources close to Trump said, were Democrats‘ moves to uncover information about his and his family finances and attempts to haul some of his most trusted aides before Congress. One source who spoke with the President said Trump said Democrats are trying to ruin his life.
„He sees that they are trying to destroy him and his family,“ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, said.
Just this week, House Democrats crept unnervingly closer to obtaining personal financial information about Trump and his family from an accounting firm and two banks after federal judges quashed the President’s bid to block subpoenas for the documents. And on Tuesday, the House Judiciary Committee issued its latest subpoena for a top Trump aide to testify, this time setting its sights on his former communications director Hope Hicks, one of his longest-serving aides.

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