The White House press shop would be busy enough without the Russia scandal hanging over their heads. There’s terrorism in Britain; deteriorating relations with Turkey; questions about whether Trump planned to shut down the government; a series of muddled and contradictory statements on U.S. foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia and Israel; and Trump’s big, cruel budget plan that would cut trillions from social-welfare programs to finance a massive tax cut for the rich. And that’s all just since yesterday. So Trump, in his infinite wisdom, is considering taking a few things off his communication team’s plate. Not by making less news—that, it seems, would be impossible—but by creating a separate war room to deal specifically with press inquiries and coordinate messaging related to the ongoing investigations into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

Politico reports that Trump is considering hiring a team of lawyers and comms operatives to specifically handle the Russia probe, as well as the scandals connected to it, in order to free his team from crisis mode—allowing them to focus, once again, on helping Make America Great. It would also take enormous pressure off Trump’s perpetually shell-shocked press secretary, Sean Spicer, whose job is reportedly in jeopardy as the president mulls a major staff shakeup that could see Spicer sidelined, adding other spokespeople to the press briefing podium rotation, moving some briefings off-camera, and even doing away with daily briefings altogether. (At one point, after they were unexpectedly slammed for Trump’s firing of James Comey, leading to runaway discussions of impeachment on Capitol Hill, rumors emerged that Spicer’s entire comms team would be axed.)

By putting together a separate rapid-response team, and running it as an outside operation, Trump would be following in the footsteps of other scandal-besieged presidents. “In my experience it’s exactly the right thing to do because it allows you to the greatest extent possible to contain the investigation, to keep the investigation away from White House business and to keep it out of the daily press briefings,” Mark Fabiani, who managed the Whitewater-investigation crisis response for Bill Clinton, told Politico.

The two crisis managers that Trump has reportedly interviewed, however, should raise some eyebrows: _Corey Lewandowski, and his deputy, David Bossie. Lewandowski was infamously fired amid rampant infighting within the Trump campaign, including a reported clash between the then-campaign manager and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, which Lewandowski lost. After the election, Lewandowksi set up a lobbying shop just down the block from the White House, but had not registered as a lobbyist, then left earlier this month after it emerged that Avenue Strategies had been peddling its access to the president to foreign clients. (Lewandowski said it had been doing so without his knowledge.)

The president is also looking outside the White House for legal counsel, according to The Washington Post. Faced with mounting calls by Democrats for his removal from office on obstruction of justice charges, Trump has reportedly interviewed several lawyers to fill out a team of attorneys, including Ted Olson, the former solicitor general to George W. Bush. They would likely be paid by Trump’s campaign, which recently released a round of fundraising emails asking Trump supporters to help fight the “WITCH HUNT” against the president.

With Trump staffers frustrated, shaken, and demoralized by the relentless stream of scandals swirling around the White House, bringing in an outside team of communications and legal professionals to take some of the pressure off would go a long way to bringing a sense of normalcy back to the West Wing. It would also allow the administration to focus on dressing its own self-inflicted wounds. But insiders note that the same cutthroat office culture that made the Trump campaign and White House so unruly could also derail Trump’s effort to wall off his scandals. “Both Republican and Democratic lawyers tell me the legal ‘Team of Rivals’ could replicate some of the West Wing's dysfunction, forcing lawyers who are used to being in charge to compete for Trump's ear,” Mike Allen writes this morning in Axios. That’s to say nothing of how those new teams might interact with existing West Wing staff, if they interact at all. Add to that toxic brew the Red Bull-chugging presence of Lewandowski, who was frequently at the center of drama and infighting on the campaign trail, and President Trump might once again be presiding over another P.R. disaster.