Trump's rage at another governor is uglier than it first seemed

LBN thread from yesterday: Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina

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Source: Washington Post

Trump’s rage at another governor is uglier than it first seemed

By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
5/26/2020, 2:22:56 p.m.

President Trump spent part of the weekend raging at Roy Cooper, the Democratic governor of North Carolina, because Cooper has not yet greenlighted a plan for the Republican National Convention to proceed at full capacity, as Trump is demanding.

That’s absurd on its face, of course, since public health imperatives amid a deadly pandemic obviously require North Carolina to proceed carefully in making such an enormously consequential life-and-death decision amid complex and changing conditions.

But it turns out there’s even more to the backstory here, and it makes Trump’s rage-fest look considerably uglier than it did at first.

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In that letter, a copy of which was sent to me, North Carolina officials say they and Cooper held a phone meeting with the GOP convention chair and other Republicans last Friday, that North Carolina had requested detailed plans for what Republican convention planners are hoping to do, and that such a written plan would be the starting point for continued discussions.

A source familiar with those negotiations tells me there wasn’t anything contentious in them, and that the RNC had not insisted on an immediate guarantee that the convention could proceed at “full attendance.”

In other words, things may have been proceeding in a relatively rational manner. Then Trump erupted.

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