President Donald Trump turned what could have been a victorious week into an epic downfall. A report from Politico explained that the president has a pattern of turning his wins into losses.
Attorney General Bill Barr released his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report that concluded that the president his campaign did not criminally collude with
However, this victory was short lived as Trump quickly picked new fights one, of them being about health care.
"Trump couldn’t resist the urge to try to parlay one win into an even larger one, no matter how improbable the odds. He ignored the advice of top staff and important allies, who pointed out that neither he nor his party had anything to offer as a replacement and that this almost certainly would work to the advantage of Democrats," the report said.
"It was consistent, actually, with Trump’s lifelong patterns. As often as he has proven his talent for turning losses into wins, or at least spinning them that way," the report said.
Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio explained that Trump will do whatever it takes to win, even if that means picking useless fights.
“The discomfort he feels in the moment of peace that follows a victory is so intense that he will do whatever it takes to find new fights,” D’Antonio told Politico.
“He starts to believe he is invincible,” former Trump Organization executive Barbara Res said.
The report detailed how Trump is an expert at self-sabotaging himself.
"True to form, during his 2016 presidential campaign, even and especially when he seemed most ascendant, Trump shifted to what then felt to some like cocky provocations that bordered on self-sabotage," the report said.
Adding, "Trump's history shows that can't 'resist the urge' to turn a win into an epic loss"In the days after his coronation at the Republican National Convention, for example, he encouraged Russia to engage in a cyber attack on the United States and belittled and feuded with a set of grieving Gold Star parents."
Read the full report here.
