[morphing libertarian]

I’m 71. I call bull shit. He can’t run two terms afraid of the “investigations” that may follow decisions. These people are undermining him and the US justice system and he’s 19 months in. he can cower for the rest of his two terms or he can man up on this issue. he is already being plotted against, what’s the difference. Some republicans will vail but they already do.

[rx]

Not every bold and brassy move needs to look like a bull in a china shop. His sensitivity to timing on everything is a reflection of the multi-level chess game that will serve the winners of this far better than the losers.

What may seem to you to be President Trump being "afraid" may have a well-measured component of drawing certain players into the open, such that they be more effectively taken as chess pieces at an even more opportune time.