Trump getting *misled* by supposed allies? (*You don’t say!*)

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US senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) said out-loud the other day something we’ve contended for a while: Donald Trump is getting some bad advice from people he thinks are his friends. We’ve seen some examples related to GOP politics right here in this state.

Here’s what Hawley – usually a good conservative – had to say:

Sen. Josh Hawley is blaming other senators for misleading Donald Trump on his moves to ban congressional stock trading after the president derided the senior Missouri Republican on Truth Social Wednesday evening.

Hawley told reporters Thursday morning he has since spoken with Trump and cleared up the confusion.

“Senators — I don’t know who — had called and told him yesterday afternoon that the bill had changed at the last minute and would force him to sell all of his assets, sell Mar-a-Lago, sell his properties,” Hawley said the president told him. “That’s just false.”

Hawley said he explained that his proposal, which would put a stock trading ban into effect immediately for executive and legislative branch officials, would explicitly exempt the president from having to divest from holdings for the remainder of his term. This fact, according to the senator, changed Trump’s mind about the bill.

“He said at the end, ‘Oh ok, great. This is good,’” Hawley said of Trump.[…]

You may remember that Trump had some pretty hard-hitting words for Hawley after he heard the initial reports about the investment legislation.