MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Monday noted that "the value of [President Donald Trump's] tweets is that we see his instincts," especially as it relates to his response to his former staff secretary's resignation amid allegations of domestic abuse last week.
But according to the Boston Globe's chief DC correspondent Kimberly Atkins, Trump's "instinctual" response has more going on than meets the eye.
"If you look at the initial reactions, both on Twitter and in his own comments from the president after this, and also look at how he has reacted to other situations — , his support that he gave for him and others — there is a pattern here where the president has a tendency to want to believe and stick by the people who he supports against allegations from women of impropriety," Atkins said.
"There's a lot of things going on here," she continued, noting "the fact that t among women."
"He himself has denied those charges," Atkins concluded. "So, I think he feels, for lack of a better word, a brotherhood here with these other people who have been accused of this."
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