It has often proved to be a mistake to over-analyse Donald Trump’s strange or bad behaviour
RICHARD NIXON denied all knowledge of the break-in and bugging of the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. Bill Clinton claimed not to have had “sexual relations with that woman”. An oddity of Donald Trump’s increasingly wild defence against a possible impeachment charge, by contrast, is that he has admitted to almost everything he stands accused of.
Mr Trump then went further. “Likewise, China should start an investigation into the Bidens because what happened in China is just about as bad as what happened with Ukraine,” he said. “So I would say that President Zelensky, if it were me, I would recommend that they start an investigation into the Bidens.”
Yet even if psychological compunction is the main explanation for Mr Trump’s unusual defence, it also appears to make tactical sense in a variety of ways. First, the president’s admissions look like an attempt to shift the boundaries of acceptable presidential conduct. He might have considered that necessary on the basis that the details of his Ukraine scheme were bound to come out, whether he admitted them or not. Anything can leak from this administration.
The texts, made public by the Democratic committees charged with investigating Mr Trump, were exchanged between Mr Volker, the American ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, and a senior adviser to Mr Zelensky, Andriy Yermak.
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