His staff are dropping like flies, Stormy Daniels is amping up her crusade, and Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel continues to beat on.
And yet it seems Donald Trump is far more focused on the future than his increasingly chaotic present.
The president spent a rare Wednesday night outside of the White House to dine with some of his top donors at a private Georgetown residence.
Donald Trump spent a rare Wednesday night outside of the White House to dine with some of his top donors at a private Georgetown residence (pictured)
C Boyden Gray, who served as special counsel under President George HW Bush, hosted the dinner at his home (pictured)
It is a surprising move for Trump who, unlike former president Barack Obama, avoids eating at Washington DC establishments entirely – unless it’s his own nearby hotel.
Deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters revealed that Trump was having dinner with ‘a small group of supporters at a private residence in town’, she told CNN.
Sources said Vice President Mike Pence and First Lady Melania Trump are not slated to attend.
Walters added that there would be ‘no fundraising’ involved.
Deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters revealed Trump was having dinner with ‘a small group of supporters at a private residence in town’
Walters added that there would be ‘no fundraising’ involved, despite the fact that the guest list had a number of known supporters
Billionaire oilman Harold Hamm (right), who has been friends with Trump since 2012, was in attendance, among others who were members of pro-Trump group America First Policies
But, according to sources, a number of the attendees have donated money and publicly supported Trump in the past.
Gray (pictured), who also served under President George W Bush, has spoken in support of Trump in the past
C Boyden Gray, who served as former US Ambassador to the European Union under President George W Bush and special counsel under President George HW Bush, hosted the dinner at his home.
Billionaire oilman Harold Hamm, who has been friends with Trump since 2012, and Brian Walsh, president of pro-Trump group America First Policies, were also in attendance.
Hamm endorsed Trump’s presidential bid in April 2016 and served as the future commander-in-chief’s unofficial energy adviser.
He is also a major political donor for the Republican party, donating hundreds of thousands in the last year.
Past donations included a whopping $985,000 to a super PAC supporting Mitt Romney when he was the Republican presidential candidate in 2012.
The dinner was listed on Trump’s public schedule but included no details on the purpose of the dinner or who would be in attendance.
The dinner was listed on Trump’s public schedule but included no details on the purpose of the dinner or who would be in attendance
An unidentified blonde was seen entering the house among the night’s numerous guests
Trump’s rare dinner venture outside the White House comes just days after it was revealed he had hired Brad Parscale to run his re-election campaign.
It was a promotion for Parscale, who was the digital media director for Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Trump filed for re-election the day of his inauguration in 2017. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders also confirmed his intentions in June.
‘Of course he’s running for re-election,’ she told reporters.
The dinner comes just days after Trump revealed he had hired Brad Parscale (pictured) to run his re-election campaign
The dinner occurred just hours after it was revealed that Trump reportedly had conversations with two witnesses who have testified before Mueller’s investigators about the Russia election meddling probe.
Mueller’s team are aware that Trump asked White House counsel Don McGahn and former chief of staff Reince Priebus about matters discussed with investigators, the New York Times reports.
On Wednesday it was also revealed that Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, had obtained a secret restraining order in a private arbitration meeting that barred porn star Stormy Daniels from disclosing ‘confidential information’ related to a nondisclosure agreement she signed in October 2016.
On Wednesday NBC News reported on the legal maneuver, which happened in late February, hours after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that the president’s lawyers had already won a case against Daniels in arbitration.
In the same breath she told reporters that ‘there was no knowledge of any payments made from the president and he’s denied all of these allegations.’
The president has been accused of having an affair in 2006 and 2007 with the porn star, with sources telling the Wall Street Journal that Cohen paid $130,000 to Daniels so that she’d sign a non-disclosure agreement and keep quiet.
Trump has never spoken publicly of the alleged affair or the hush money, though has denied the former through counsel and his spokespeople.
On Tuesday, Daniels sued the president, pointing out that he never signed the contract, and thus it should be ‘null and void.’