“I’m just not going to leave.” That’s apparently what former President Donald Trump told his aides days after the 2020 presidential election.
That’s according to New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s upcoming book on Trump, The Confidence Man: The Birth of Donald Trump and the Destruction of America. In an excerpt obtained by CNN, Haberman wrote that Trump told another aide: You won the election, how can you walk away? ”
Haberman wrote that while seemingly aware that Trump had lost the election, he had come to rebel that he had won. Not surprisingly when it comes to Trump, it hasn’t been reported before.
Since it appeared in the book, Haberman has been criticized by some circles for retaining information.
Keith Olbermann Tweet@maggieNYT has been withholding publication for months, if not a year and a half, so she puts it in her (expletive) book I was able to.
That was the general criticism — Haberman withheld information the public should have ever known.
Of course, we don’t know when Haberman learned of this particular detail, and we shouldn’t assume that his failure to report Trump’s threats earlier poses a threat to national security.
In a statement to The Wrap’s Andi Ortiz, a Times spokesperson said: In the process of reporting her book, she shared quite a bit of newsworthy information with The Times, whose editors decided which news best suited her report for Our News. ”
back to trump. As CNN’s Jeremy Herb wrote, “Trump’s pledge to refuse to leave the White House has no historical precedent, and his proclamation has left aides unsure of what he will do next.” The closest similarity might be Mary Todd Lincoln, who stayed in the White House for nearly a month after her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated, the authors noted.
An interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper for a special report, “American Coup: The January 6th Investigation,” airs Sundays at 9:00 PM ET.
Cheney, co-leader of the House Select Committee’s Jan. 6 investigation, told Tapper he hadn’t seen the book. But she said: And given that the Supreme Court would have sorted it out, we have to ask ourselves, who enforced the court’s rulings? A president refusing to leave the White House, or the White House If you have a president who says he refuses to leave the The moment is that everyone has to stand up and take responsibility. And I don’t think it’s surprising that those are the feelings he conveyed. ”
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