Muhyiddin is the perfect example of a guy who is totally unfit for a high office but yet have high ambition to occupy such office. He spent 18 months totally clueless in that office. The only good thing he did is refusing to interfere in Najib and Zahid's cases.
Muhyiddin has been wanting to become PM since 1998. He briefly explored his options with Anwar in 1998 but soon realised Mahathir was more formidable. He abandoned Anwar within a day and remained in UMNO.
Instrumental together with Dr Mahathir in taking down Pak Lah but Najib became the PM instead of him. He became his No. 2 as a reward for taking down Pak Lah.
The opportunity to become No. 1 again came when Najib was caught stealing billions from 1MDB and Dr Mahathir went on an offensive to take down Najib. If Najib goes down, UMNO would have selected Muhyiddin.
I can't find the video of Muhyiddin lambasting 1MDB in an UMNO meeting at Janda Baik in May 2015, but he had a shallow understanding of Najib's theft.
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It was people around Dr Mahathir who did most of the expose on 1MDB. Of course, the whole thing started by @sarawak_report followed up by the @theedgemalaysia and @wsj. @rafiziramli and @tonypua were also instrumental and took big risks.
Muhyiddin just rode on them, scored a win in May 2018 and betrayed in February 2020. Now we are in this mess!
This is the video taken in Janda baik. In few more instances, he appeared clueless over 1MDB, though he did agree it was a scam.
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