Quote Originally Posted by oskar View Post
If there's any strategy to the shutdown, it's to either stall the investigation or somehow create pressure that he can leverage to work out a deal for no prison for him or his children. - This would be a more solid theory if Trump wasn't so fucking retarded. I doubt he can think in that many steps.
As much as I like the idea that he's stalling to keep himself from getting jail time, I'm inclined to think you're right. My favoured theory is that his top advisor (Fox News) told him to dig in his heels, and so he did, and now he's too stupid to find a way out of it.