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Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s self-delusion blinds him to legal peril

If he truly has felt “relief” — as opposed to blustering — he is either not getting adequate legal advice, rejecting that advice or incapable of absorbing legal advice.

FILE - In a Friday, March 23, 2018 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, about the $1.3 trillion spending bill. Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel’s Russia investigation after all, one of the president’s attorneys said Sunday, March 25, 2018. Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement that Washington lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have conflicts that won’t allow them to represent the president regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.