There would not be “a great deal of hope if Republicans do well or hold their own” in the midterm elections,” veteran journalist Bob Woodward told MSNBC's “Morning Joe” on Tuesday.
Woodward, who recently finished a media tour for his best-selling book, “Fear: Inside the Trump White House,” said much of what President Donald Trump touts as accomplishments is not based on reality.
Woodward explained, for example, that last year’s “tax cut was a classic fiscal stimulus that makes the economy look better than it is… so we now have more deficits…. and these deficits are going to explode one day…. the deceit [of all that Trump does] is also in this economic policy.”
He also dismissed the president’s massive troop deployment on the southern border to guard against the approaching migrant caravans marching northwards in Mexico as “clearly a stunt.”
Woodward, who portrays the administration under the president as one in disarray, said “no one knows what Trump’s emotional impact is having on people. Lots of people don’t like it. [But] there are a lot of people who do like it... the drama in the White House is very attractive to lots of people”
The interesting question is what are Republicans voting for, Woodward said. “Are they voting for the chaos and nervous breakdown in the White House or are they voting for local candidates and it can be some of both?”
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