Trump has blamed his longtime personal lawyer and many others for the predicament in which he finds himself, although he has not accepted any responsibility publicly or privately, people familiar with his reaction told CNN. Giuliani is expected to continue to play a role in accusing Trump, but he has been left out of most talks so far.
Another source of Trump’s anger is House minority leader Kevin McCarthy, who further fueled Trump on Wednesday by saying he was responsible for the riot last week. The president was already upset about McCarthy after the California Republican left the option to condemn Trump in a letter to colleagues earlier this week.
One White House adviser told CNN that “everyone is angry with everyone” inside the White House, while the president is upset because he thinks people are not defending him enough.
“He’s in self-pity mode,” the source said, while Trump complained that he had been under siege for five years and considered this latest accusation a continuation of it.
But many people close to Trump see the current situation as different from his first accusation, when he was accused of putting pressure on the Ukrainian government to defile Biden in an attempt to influence the presidential election.
“His actions led here, no one else,” the White House adviser said, adding: “He urged a mob to charge the Capitol building to stop the certification, he is not going to find very sympathetic Republicans . ‘
During the last indictment, Trump allies in and out of the White House defended him publicly and sent discussion points through the indictment process. No similar attempt was made this time, while the Republican leadership of the House decided to pressure their colleagues to stay in line and allow them to vote their conscience. Ten Republicans voted with each Democrat to pass the single article of indictment.
With his favorite means of communication – Twitter – no longer available to him after Trump was banned from the social network on Friday, another person close to the White House was worried that Trump might succeed further.
“He’s locked up in the dorm, it’s never a good thing. He’s not a lot of people to jump off ideas on his own – whenever that happens, he’s going to his worst instincts,” the person said. . “Now that Twitter is not available, God only knows what the outlet will be.”