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Wasn’t the last four years of fun? Who doesn’t miss the frisson of waking up to read that the entire federal government will be doing a policy 180 because a demented couch potato watched a Fox segment and tweeted something insane?
But with teasers from the coming deluge of Trump books appearing daily, it’s like we get to relive the whole thing again. Hooray!
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Here’s a particularly hair raising excerpt from Wall Street Journal reporter Michael Bender’s upcoming book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost.
Early on, he attempted to oust Attorney General William Barr. By mid-November, the president secretly offered Mr. Barr’s job to John Ratcliffe, the director of national intelligence. Running the Justice Department was Mr. Ratcliffe’s dream job in Washington, but not like this. If Mr. Ratcliffe accepted, he’d be expected to refute the same briefings he’d provided the president as national intelligence director, which stated that no foreign powers had conspired to corrupt the nation’s voting machines. He turned it down.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but OH MY GOD.
John Ratcliffe was almost the Attorney General during the election dispute?
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The Texas congressman who impressed Trump so much with his partisan screaming during the first impeachment hearing that he got nominated for Director of National Intelligence?
The same congressman whose nomination was withdrawn after it came out that he’d wildly exaggerated his resumé and it was clear he’d never get confirmed by his fellow Republicans?
The guy who finally got shoehorned in there after Trump made that unhinged troll Ric Grenell DNI, forcing the Senate to choose between letting Grenell burn down the entire intelligence community or letting Ratcliffe use it as a partisan tool?
The DNI who tried desperately to force intelligence analysts to say that Biden-loving China, not Russia, was the real threat to American elections?
That guy was almost elevated to AG at a time when Trump was actively working to get the Justice Department to intervene to stop certification of the vote in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Arizona?
Yikes.
Well, we never thought we’d say this, but …
Thank God for Bill Barr and Jeffrey Rosen without whom it could have been so, so much worse.
Inside Donald Trump’s Last Days in the White House and Plans for a Comeback [WSJ]
Elizabeth Dye lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.