White House Aides To Present Trump With Rapid-Response Plan To Fight Back Impeachment Allegations

President Donald Trump would be presented with a plan by his White House aides in the coming days, to counter the imminent threat of impeachment hanging over his head, after a tumultuous week.

The plan of rapid-response will be presented to Trump, beginning as early as Monday, by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, among others.

Last week, reports had emerged that White House was in panic following allegations against Trump which they found hard to counter. Mulvaney, who had released transcripts of the July 25 call and the whistleblower complaint apparently had no strategy to defend the contents of the release and the subsequent attacks on the President.

While the initial response to the controversy was an outright rejection downplaying the seriousness of the matter, a coordinated legal, political, and public relations messaging response has been planned by the White House officials that would help Trump overcome this big hurdle.

Though sources have claimed that President was not upset with Mulvaney for his actions, the acting Chief of Staff certainly found himself on thin ice, after a downright bad week for the President.

Trump allies have repeatedly claimed that there is nothing wrong with his conduct with Ukraine, but the whistleblower complaint released last week said that White House officials were so concerned by the content of the call, that the transcripts were locked down on purpose by them.

While many are trying to downplay the seriousness of the incident, Trump compared the response effort to war, in a closed-door meeting with United Nations diplomats. The response has been modeled on Former President Bill Clinton’s impeachment fight as well as lessons learned from the Mueller hearings.

"I just went through a war, this is a skirmish,” Trump’s lawyer Jay Sekulow said.

“We’re not going to get caught flat-footed, and we're not going to take it lying down,” another source told NBC.

While it is not clear who would be leading the response internally, it is believed that White House spokesman Steven Groves, who was involved in managing both the Mueller inquiries and the spokesperson related to congressional investigations, is expected to to be key.