Can President Trump Steer Toward Policy, Away From Scandal?

One of the major problems conservatives had with candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign was his lack of public policy experience. But this lack is exactly what drew millions of voters to support him–he wasn’t a swamp creature. People wanted an outsider to shake up the system, and indeed President Trump has done just that. But the American people are finding this isn’t the shakeup they prefer. President Trump is now at a crossroads: will he find a healthy middle ground, one where he seizes control of the troubling narrative the mainstream press and his liberal critics are carving out, steering the ship back toward an innovative, policy-focused agenda? Or will he continue to let innuendo and backstabbing swirl around the White House indefinitely, clouding Republicans’ legislative agenda and squandering their November mandate? Will he straightforwardly address legitimate questions about Russian involvement in the 2016 election and his subsequent handling of classified information? On Capitol Hill potential Russia hacking hearings and widening investigations are sucking away time and energy from GOP plans to reform our health care system and tax code. The latest journalistic bombshell to hit the White House came last night with reports that fired FBI Director James Comey kept memos documenting…
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