Monumental Sign Trump Is Running Scared: Political Guru

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President Donald Trump has realized that he messed up by surrounding himself with scandal-mired figures and is now “running scared,” one political analyst says.

Foreign policy expert https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/david-rothkopf/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/david-rothkopf/">David Rothkopf said on https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/the-daily-beast-podcast/" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.thedailybeast.com/author/the-daily-beast-podcast/">The Daily Beast Podcast that he sees “a sign” that the 79-year-old president and his chief of staff, “Ice Maiden” Susie Wiles, are panicking as his Cabinet of embattled officials monopolizes attention.

“They were picking the worst people they could to say, ‘Hey, we can pick the worst people we can.’ And now it’s blowing up in their face,” Rothkopf told host https://joannacoles.substack.com/" rel="" target="_blank" title="https://joannacoles.substack.com/">Joanna Coles, citing the cascade of controversies that engulfed Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. within the span of a few days last week.

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