“Nobody had ever heard of some of these people that worked for me in DC,” he said in yet another statement this week, adding: “For the first time in their lives they feel like ‘something special’, not the losers that they are – and they talk, talk, talk!” Our thesis was that the desire to understand this critical period of history would continue. They’re all trying to go back in time and curate their own images.” All have reason to be cautious. As one former aide told Politico: “It’s fraught right now as to who is telling the truth.
Most influential Trump world figures have spoken on or off the record. Trump has even claimed to be writing his own book, news that prompted leading agents and publishers to reach for their very longest bargepoles, with which not to publicly touch it. Pence and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law-cum-adviser, have signed deals for memoirs. That doesn’t mean other people didn’t say it.”įormer aides jockey to tell their sides of the story. Trump again denied the remark, Politico said, but also told an adviser: “That doesn’t mean John Kelly didn’t tell Mike Bender that. According to Politico, earlier this month he woke to news – broken by the Guardian – of the passage in Bender’s book in which he is reported to have praised Hitler. Trump is not a reader but he knows what is written about him. And as long as that’s done, then I think you have to continue to show what he’s doing.” The chase But it’s important to frame it all in the proper context, to point out when he’s not telling the truth. “It is unconscionable given his behavior that the Republicans would give him the time of day,” she said. “But he’s a madman with millions of followers, including powerful elected members of the United States government.” Tara Setmayer, a former Republican strategist now a senior adviser with the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, told the Guardian such statements were “the rantings of a raving madman”. Denying their reporting, he said Gen Milley should be “impeached, or court-martialed and tried” and called Pelosi “a known nut job”. The interviews he sat for were “a total waste of time”, Trump said, as the authors were “bad people” who “write whatever they want to write”.īut Trump did respond to Leonnig and Rucker – also authors of a bestseller on the start of his presidency, A Very Stable Genius. To the reader, America really did come to the brink of disaster.Īsked for Trump’s thoughts, a spokesperson directed the Guardian to a statement issued on 9 July, before some of the most alarming revelations were public. For good measure, Glasser also reported Milley’s efforts to stop Trump attacking Iran.
So, on Friday, did Susan Glasser of the New Yorker, whose Trump book will come out next year. They even show Milley reassuring the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, that Trump will not be allowed to use nuclear weapons. The two Pulitzer-winning Washington Post reporters also report that Vice-President Mike Pence defied his own Secret Service agents and refused to leave the Capitol as it came under attack. But it’s important to continue to show what he’s doing Tara Setmayer Four days later, on 6 January this year, Trump supporters did storm the US Capitol, seeking to overturn the election, looking for lawmakers to capture and kill. In I Alone Can Fix It, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker show that general, Mark Milley, resisting Trump but fearing a “Reichstag moment”, a coup by supporters of a president preaching “the gospel of the Führer”. He also tells us Trump believed Adolf Hitler “did a lot of good things”, wanted to “ execute” whichever aide leaked news of his retreat to a White House bunker as anti-racism protests raged last summer, and told his top general to “just shoot” those demonstrating in Lafayette Square outside. In Frankly, We Did Win This Election, Michael Bender reports the 2020 campaign in exhaustive detail. He also reports – and Fox News denies – that Rupert Murdoch personally approved the early call of Arizona which signaled Trump’s defeat with a pithy “Fuck him”. In Landslide, Michael Wolff’s second sequel to Fire and Fury, the book that birthed the genre, Trump is shown isolated and unhinged in the White House, pushed to extremes by Rudy Giuliani before, during and after his supporters’ deadly attack on the Capitol. Photograph: White House/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock
Trump reportedly told his top general to ‘just shoot’ those demonstrating in Lafayette Square last summer.