Mod: So apparently Donald Trump did not take his defeat at the polls three weeks ago very well. With many in a position to know saying that he pretty much lost his mind. Trump is ‘utterly bonkers’: Experts weigh in on bombshell WaPo deep-dive on Trump’s post-election meltdown (Raw Story link): Experts were shocked by the portrait of President Donald Trump in a bombshell new report. Posted online by The Washington Post on Saturday night, the story was titled, “20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election.”
“The facts were indisputable:
President Trump had lost. But
Trump refused to see it that way,” the newspaper reported. “The result was an election aftermath without precedent in
U.S. history. With his denial of the outcome, despite a string of courtroom defeats,
Trump endangered America’s democracy, threatened to undermine national security and public health, and duped millions of his supporters into believing, perhaps permanently, that
Biden was elected illegitimately.”
The story generated a great deal of commentary online. George Conway, husband of Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway, said it made Trump look “utterly bonkers.”
Worth reading in its entirety, but in a nutshell: “interviews with 32 senior administration officials, campaign aides and other advisers to the president, as well as other key figures in his legal fight” show the President of the United States to be utterly bonkers. Constitutional law expert and Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe issued a warning for those reading it:
Reading this detailed account of a legally doomed effort at a coup is like watching a really gruesome autopsy unfold in real time. Make sure you’re not about to have a meal when you start this saga. You won’t be able to put it down.
Former acting
Solicitor General Neal Katyal focused on a quote from a “close advisor” likening
Trump to
Mad King George.
100% right. "The facts were indisputable: Trump had lost. But Trump refused to see it....rageful and at times delirious...Trump was, in the telling of 1 close adviser, like Mad King George, muttering 'I won. I won. I won.’"
Conservative
Washington Post columnist
Max Boot highlighted one particularly well-written sentence from reporters
Philip Rucker,
Ashley Parker,
Josh Dawsey and
Amy Gardner.
My favorite line in this great article: “If you were a Republican poll watcher, you were treated like a dog,” Trump complained, using one of his favorite put-downs, even though many people treat dogs well, like members of their own families.
Lincoln Project Kurt Bardella suggested the article made a case for invoking the
25th Amendment to remove
Trump from office.
If this were written about a Democratic President, Republicans would be clamoring for impeachment and the 25th.
20 days of fantasy and failure: Inside Trump’s quest to overturn the election (
The Washington Post link): The facts were indisputable:
President Trump had lost. But
Trump refused to see it that way. Sequestered in the
White House and brooding out of public view after his election defeat, rageful and at times delirious in a torrent of private conversations,
Trump was, in the telling of one close adviser, like “
Mad King George, muttering, ‘I won. I won. I won.’ ”
However cleareyed
Trump’s aides may have been about his loss to
President-elect Joe Biden, many of them nonetheless indulged their boss and encouraged him to keep fighting with legal appeals. They were “happy to scratch his itch,” this adviser said. “If he thinks he won, it’s like, ‘Shh . . . we won’t tell him.’”
The result was an election aftermath without precedent in U.S. history. With his denial of the outcome, despite a string of courtroom defeats, Trump endangered America’s democracy, threatened to undermine national security and public health, and duped millions of his supporters into believing, perhaps permanently, that Biden was elected illegitimately.
Mod: A megaton more at the link.
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