The Beltway chatter over whether President Trump can last his full four-year term in office grew to a fervor last night after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller as a special prosecutor to investigate Russian government influence and possible Trump campaign collusion in the 2016 presidential election “and related matters.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) spoke for many of us when he told Bloomberg TV on Tuesday: “I think we could do with a little less drama from the White House on a lot of things so that we can focus on our agenda, which is deregulations, tax reform and repealing and replacing Obamacare.” Indeed, since taking the Oval Office, Trump hasn’t had a firm grasp on his messaging, and perhaps the appointment of Mueller could be the intervention he needs to button down his approach to governance and move it in a policy-focused style that would fulfill the promises he made to those “forgotten men and women” who carried him to victory. Even though reports suggest the Trump White House was grim over this news, Mueller, an experienced public servant with a stellar track record, could actually play a stabilizing role for Trump by instituting a formal and objective process to finally…
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