Trump’s deny-and-delay strategy has rather quickly run into a series of setbacks. Trump’s legal team can and will appeal the first one. But all of these things taken together underscore that Trump’s absolutist strategy toward blocking Congress from gathering information is extremely bold and subject to plenty of defeats. Then again, Trump’s strategy here was never really about winning all of these battles. As with most things Trump, the only thing preventing him from pursuing this aggressive deny-and-delay strategy is shame or political blowback.

Source: Washington Post May 23, 2019 12:22 UTC