Donald Trump is spending the day desperately trying to distract us from what’s about to drop

| 7:05 pm EDT May 30, 2018
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Donald Trump, who is loathe to admit having ever made a mistake about anything, woke up this morning and made a point of announcing that he regretted having appointed Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Then he brought Kim Kardashian of all people to the White House for a meeting. Then the White House decided to let a kid ask a question about guns in schools during Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ press briefing. Wait a minute here.

Trump routinely tries to create a distraction whenever he thinks news is about to drop that’s going to make him look bad. But today’s con job has more moving parts than the plot of Ocean’s Eleven. Trump is invoking a series of distractions aimed at flooding the news cycle with so many distractions, it tells us that he’s more desperate to distract us from what’s about to drop than he’s ever been. So what is it?

It’s not yet 100% clear, but this appears to be related to the evidence surfacing in the Trump-Cohen scandal. Thanks to the ongoing efforts of Michael Avenatti, we now have confirmation of what we’ve suspected from the start: Cohen did tape record his conversations with Trump. But is that all there is to it?

That’s tough to say. At least some of Donald Trump’s attempted distractions today required advance planning. Did Trump know that today would be the day we’d learn about the tapes? Is he expecting them to surface imminently? Just how incriminating are they? Or does Trump think that something else is about to drop that’s even uglier than him confessing to crimes on tape? Whatever it is, Trump has never worked as hard to distract us as he has today.