Reading this account of the authors' interview with tfg leaves one with the impression that ... perhaps ... it just might be possible ... don't want to go out on a limb here ... tfg might be completely nuts.
oh, look, Trump was "in a frenzy" wanting to fire someone because she said publicly there was going to be a pandemic with, like, lots of people dying but it just wasn't worth arguing with him or telling the public the president was off his rocker
gosh what would we have done without Melania trying to talk her husband into being rational
So this article addresses what happened with Georgia’s EVs in 1800, which tfg has been invoking to claim that Pence should have just counted the votes himself in 2021. The bottom line is, yes, the GA vote certificate was screwed up, …
…. because of incompetence. But everyone knew from published reports that the electors had voted for Jefferson and Burr, which is why the Federalist members of Congress didn’t complain. And this had all occurred 76 years before Congress passed a law, …
"The president was riveted. His supporters had heeded his call to march on the Capitol with 'pride and boldness.' For Trump, there was no more beautiful sight than thousands of energetic people waving Trump flags, wearing red MAGA caps and fighting to keep him in power."
"'He thought, "This is cool." He was happy,' recalled one aide who was with Trump that afternoon. 'Then when it turned violent, he thought, "Oh, crap."'"
"Sen. Lindsey O. Graham said, 'It took him a while to appreciate the gravity of the situation. The president saw these people as allies in his journey and sympathetic to the idea that the election was stolen.'"
“Milley described ‘a stomach-churning’ feeling as he listened to Trump’s untrue complaints of election fraud, drawing a comparison to the 1933 attack on Germany’s parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to establish a Nazi dictatorship.”
“After the failed insurrection on Jan. 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Milley to ask for his guarantee that Trump would not be able to launch a nuclear strike and start a war.”
"You are an island unto yourself right now,” [JCS Chief Gen. Milley's] friend [told him Election Night]. 'You are not tethered. Your loyalty is to the Constitution. You represent the stability of this republic.'" washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"Milley’s friend added: 'There’s fourth-rate people at the Pentagon. And you have fifth-rate people at the White House. You’re surrounded by total incompetence. Hang in there. Hang tough.'" washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"[SecDef] Esper was a lifelong Republican and had worked at the conservative Heritage Foundation as well as for Republican senators .... But ... as he watched TV news anchors cover the election results, he found himself rooting for the Democrat."