Trump’s Post-Mueller Euphoria Gives Way to Anger and Recrimination

  • Melania Trump advised husband to spurn White House reporters
  • President, aides said to be particular angry at McGahn, Porter
How Trump, Democrats Move Forward in a Post-Mueller World
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On the White House’s South Lawn on Thursday, a mob of reporters waited to question Donald Trump about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report before the president left for a long weekend in Florida.

He emerged from the White House holding his wife’s hand. But instead of his customary stop to take a few questions from reporters, he silently waved and boarded the presidential helicopter.