The president has continued to tell advisers and allies he really won the election, with less than 48 hours to go before he leaves office. On the current GOP rift, the president's anger is with every Republican who voted for impeachment but singular for McCarthy, aides say.
Associates who've spoken with Trump say he's used the same vulgarity he used about Pence to describe McCarthy, saying he bowed to pressure with his House floor speech.
McCarthy did NOT support impeachment, but that’s hasn’t mattered to the president, according to people who spoke with him.
The president is also focused on the two Michigan reps who backed impeachment, because he knows them, per people he's spoken to.
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The list includes L'il Wayne, who Kushner is said to have pushed for, but does not include Trump family members, Steve Bannon, Rudy Giuliani or Trump himself (this could all change but isn't likely to) nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/…
There have been days of meetings about the pardons, with the president beginning to call people on Sunday to tell them they were getting them. Kushner has focused on a group of people working with Alice Johnson. Ivanka Trump has weighed in. nytimes.com/2021/01/18/us/…
I got a bit more information about the Lindell meeting. It was a brief meeting, Trump sent him upstairs to the WH counsel's office to be escorted by an admin official sitting next to Lindell in the meeting. That official, according to another official, was Robert O'Brien.
Once up there, he insisted on meeting with Cipollone. It got contentious, in part bc supposedly on the blacked-out part of his notes was something about how Cipollone should be fired.
Lindell tells me that he was carrying the notes for an attorney he's been working with to prove the election was really won by Trump, wouldn't say who it was. Said some of it related to reports Trump is now unable to see because he doesn't have Twitter.
Confirming @jdawsey1 on Trump wanting to stiff Rudy, and a few new details - White House officials blocking Rudy calls to Trump; Trump said repeatedly on AF1 yesterday about the election: "I won;" Pence/others had to convince Trump to do the video today. nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/…
Even after Trump recorded/released the video, he had to be reassured by aides that it was the right thing to do nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/…
The president is furious with McConnell but deeper anger is at McCarthy, people close to him say. Felt like McCarthy betrayed him by condemning what he did/checking support for censure nytimes.com/2021/01/13/us/…
"Earlier this month, Mr. Giuliani said he had no interest in attending the Republican National Convention in San Diego in August, prompting the state Republican chairman to say he did not want the Mayor there, either." nytimes.com/1996/06/26/us/…
"That was about the same time that the Mayor lamented Mr. Dole's support for legislation that would restrict Government aid to immigrants, calling the restrictions "a terrible, terrible mistake."nytimes.com/1996/06/26/us/…
"She's known all over the internet," Trump says of a woman he's claiming rigged the vote (whose name is not bleeped over at the beginning of this audio, but is later) washingtonpost.com/video/politics…
Trump keeps talking over Mitchell midway through the tape when she says anything that strays from what he claims.
The president keeps pushing a conspiracy theory that Dominion machines internal parts were secretly replaced. A GA official misses a few beats before answering, appearing to be stunned.
On House GOP conference call taking place right now, @GOPLeader said he spoke to POTUS and POTUS hasn't committed to a veto of the stimulus bill yet. Still deciding.
McCarthy, per person on the call, said that Rs need to address the president's concerns and keep parts of the bill they think are good, but that POTUS hasn't committed either way.
“This bill has been tainted,” McCarthy said per person on call.