White House insiders no longer defending 'huge hole' Trump has put them in: Axios founder

According to Axios founder Jim VandeHei, there is a pervasive sense of doom in Donald Trump’s White House, and his unrestrained actions continue to crater not only his popularity, but that of the Republican Party.

Addressing the predicted wipe-out of the GOP House majority and the possibility that the president will be immediately impeached after the November midterms, VandeHei told “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough there is a cloud of dread when he speaks to Trump insiders.

“I think the biggest alarm for him and for Republicans is they look at the House map and it looks like almost impossible for them to keep control of the House,” he noted. “They look at the Senate and they start to look at states like Iowa, Ohio, Alaska, Texas, Maine, all of which should be very, very winnable, maybe not even competitive. And they all look suddenly in danger.”

“To me, the most interesting thing is talking to people around the president,” he continued. “Their language and body language has changed markedly in the last two months. They know they're in a huge hole and it's going to be really, really hard to get out of it. They don't even really defend it anymore. They understand that we're here by a series of choices that the president made by himself.”

“How to prosecute this war was his choice, to do tariffs; the way he did was his choice to unleash ICE into neighborhoods before ICE was properly trained to do it was his choice –– to then promote that in a very chest-thumping style. That was his choice and now Republicans are having to pay for that.”

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