And Trump corrupted our entire federal government to lie for him just like a shit hole country rum by a mad king tin horn dictator.

No lie was too small like altering weather maps. Or to big like the election was stolen

And they can't do both. Continue to support treasonous conservative American Hating Republicans and try to claim they love the United States of America

 

This sounds like its going to be another really bad one. But not just burning Trump but treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans in the Senate as well.



Republican politicians are worried that Mitt Romney's new book will reveal their true feelings and private conversations about Trump
John L. Dorman,Brent D. Griffiths
Wed, September 13, 2023 at 1:32 PM MDT·3 min read
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Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File

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  Sen. Mitt Romney announced that he's retiring from the Senate at the end of his term.
  
  
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Sen. Mitt Romney's disdain for former President Donald Trump's brand of politics is no surprise.

So when the Utah Republican and 2012 GOP presidential nominee announced on Wednesday that he wouldn't seek a second term in the Senate, he said that the former president was "unwilling to lead on important matters."

And in "Romney: A Reckoning," an upcoming book to be released in October, he'll go into detail about how some of his GOP colleagues truly feel about Trump, a development which has them concerned, according to The New York Times.


The book, written by The Atlantic staff writer

, is based in part from hours of interviews with Romney. Coppins was afforded access to the senator's emails, along with his personal diary, according to The Times.

"For two years, I met with Mitt Romney in his DC townhome as he grappled with what his party — and his country —were becoming," Coppins wrote on X on Wednesday. "The stories he told me from inside the Senate were extraordinary and damning."

Multiple books written during the Trump era were built on the two-faced nature of many GOP lawmakers who would publicly praise Trump but privately trash him.

The Romney biography threatens to attribute the comments in a way few of those books had. So far, the one major exception might be the tapes of now-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of California criticizing Trump in the wake of the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol. The leaked audio sparked a brief firestorm.

The book will be released shortly before the start of voting for the 2024 GOP presidential primaries and caucuses, which could anoint Trump as the nominee once again or crown a new candidate as the party's standard-bearer.

Romney in July urged Republicans to turn the page from Trump in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, arguing that the party needed a nominee with "character," while also asking that donors not encourage a slew of candidates to remain in the race too late — which could give the former president an easy avenue to win the nomination next year.

A former GOP presidential nominee, Romney has rarely been shy about discussing Trump.

Romney called Trump a "con man" during a blistering 2016 speech. Just before joining the Senate, the senator wrote a Washington Post op-ed that charged the then-president for failing "to ris[e] to the mantle of the office." Romney was the only Republican to vote to convict Trump on an impeachment charge related to improperly pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. He also voted to convict Trump for inciting the Capitol riot.

Read the original article on Business Insider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-politicians-worried-mitt-romneys-193204205.html

 

This is another thing right out of the Nazi playbook. If someone opposed Hitler and the Nazis they sent out members of the Brown Shirts to commit violence against them. And once they had any opposition intimidated Hitler could cruise to power.

And of course this also exposes the lie Trump was found innocent in his two impeachments. He was guilty and should have been removed but first conservative/Republicans turned cowards and so becoming treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans was just another small step.

Top GOP Senator Only Backed Trump For 1 Chilling Reason, Says New Book
Lee Moran
Fri, September 15, 2023 at 1:26 AM MDT·2 min read
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A top Republican senator changed his mind and voted to acquitTrump

in his second impeachment trial, for inciting the U.S. Capitol riot, over safety fears for his family, according to a new book about Sen.Mitt Romney (R-Utah).

In an excerpt from McKay Coppins’ upcoming “Romney: A Reckoning” published in The Atlantic, the author detailed how Republican lawmakers’ concerns over receiving political backlash to opposing Trump morphed into a” more existential brand of cowardice” following the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection.

During the Senate trial of the then-president, wrote Coppins, an unnamed member of the Republican leadership told Romney “he was leaning toward voting to convict” but “the others urged him to reconsider.”

“‘You can’t do that,’ Romney recalled someone saying. ‘Think of your personal safety, said another. Think of your children.’ The senator eventually decided they were right,” Coppins added.

A GOP congressman had earlier told Romney he chose not to vote for Trump’s second impeachment “out of fear of his family’s safety.”

“The congressman reasoned that Trump would be impeached by House Democrats with or without him—why put his wife and children at risk if it wouldn’t change the outcome?” wrote Coppins.

On Wednesday, Romney, a fierce critic of Trump, announced he would not be seeking reelection in 2024.

“Frankly, it’s time for a new generation of leaders,” the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and former governor of Massachusetts said in a video shared on X. “They’re the ones that need to make the decisions that will shape the world they will be living in.”

“The next generation of leaders must take America to the next stage of global leadership,” he added.

Romney said the prospect of Republican 2024 front-runner Trump becoming the party’s nominee hadn’t influenced him.

“I think the people of Utah don’t always agree with me regarding the posture I took toward Donald Trump, but they respect people who vote their conscience,” he told HuffPost. “I don’t have any question in my mind I’d have won if I’d run again.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/top-gop-senator-only-backed-072629848.html

 

Trump shoulda been guilty
Trump woulda been guilty except .......
Trump Coulda been guilty if only .........

 

McConnell didn’t reply to Romney’s text warning about Jan. 6: book
by Nick Robertson - 09/13/23 4:18 PM ET

Then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) didn’t respond to warnings from Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) about the Jan. 6 insurrection in the days before the riot, according to a new biography on the Utah Republican.

In an excerpt of the biography by McKay Coppins published in The Atlantic on Wednesday, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) reportedly texted Romney, requesting a call about something “important” on Jan. 2, 2021.


King warned him of threats of violence — including some specifically against Romney — during the Jan. 6 certification of the Electoral College votes, citing a conversation with a high-ranking Pentagon official.

“Law enforcement has been tracking online chatter among right-wing extremists who appear to be planning something bad on the day of Donald Trump’s upcoming rally in Washington, D.C. The president has been telling them the election was stolen; now they’re coming to steal it back,” the excerpt reads, paraphrasing King’s conversation with Romney.

“There’s talk of gun smuggling, of bombs and arson, of targeting the traitors in Congress who are responsible for this travesty,” it continues. “Romney’s name has been popping up in some frightening corners of the internet, which is why King needed to talk to him. He isn’t sure Romney will be safe.”

Romney passed the message on to McConnell, typing him a text message.

“In case you have not heard this, I just got a call from Angus King, who said that he had spoken with a senior official at the Pentagon who reports that they are seeing very disturbing social media traffic regarding the protests planned on the 6th,” Romney wrote, according to the book.

“There are calls to burn down your home, Mitch; to smuggle guns into DC, and to storm the Capitol. I hope that sufficient security plans are in place, but I am concerned that the instigator—the President—is the one who commands the reinforcements the DC and Capitol police might require,” he said.


But Romney never received a response, per the book. The attack on the Capitol building occurred just four days later.

In the immediate aftermath of the Jan. 6 riots, McConnell blamed then-President Trump for the violence. In a speech nearly a year later, despite voting to acquit Trump on impeachment charges related to the riot, McConnell again placed the responsibility on the former president.

“There is no question that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day,” McConnell said. “A mob was assaulting the Capitol in his name. These criminals were carrying his banners, hanging his flags and screaming their loyalty to him.”


However, McConnell has avoided saying whether Trump should be held criminally liable for the riots.

Romney was one of seven Republican senators who did vote to convict Trump on impeachment charges related to the Jan. 6 riot.

Romney announced Wednesday that he will not run for reelection in 2024.


The announcement marks the end of a 20-year political career that saw him serve as Massachusetts’s governor and run as the GOP nominee for president in 2012 before becoming one of Utah’s senators.


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate...ply-to-romneys-text-warning-about-jan-6-book/

 

Trump and Meadows joked about Covid on plane after Biden debate, book says
Martin Pengelly in Washington
Wed, September 20, 2023 at 6:52 AM MDT·4 min read
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Photograph: Alexander Drago/Reuters

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and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the first debate with
in 2020 – an event at which Trump was not tested but three days before which, Meadows later confessed, Trump had indeed tested positive.

On the flight, on 29 September 2020, Trump speculated about his health, saying he thought his voice had sounded “a little bit off” at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. But he also said he did not want the media to “accuse me of something ridiculous, like having Covid”.



Meadows “laughed and promised him that we would handle it if it happened”.



“We” referred to Meadows and Cassidy Hutchinson, the chief of staff’s closest aide who has now written a memoir, Enough. The book, which describes Hutchinson’s journey from Trump loyalist to key witness in the January 6 inquiry, will be published in the US next Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy.

In December 2021, the Guardian obtained a copy of Meadows’s own memoir, The Chief’s Chief. In that book, Meadows revealed that Trump tested positive for Covid three days before debating Biden but disregarded the test after another came back negative and then, despite showing worsening symptoms, carried out public events including the debate and a reception for bereaved military families.

Trump denied the account, calling it “fake news”. Remarkably, Meadows agreed, saying of his own book: “Well, the president’s right, it’s fake news.”

Hutchinson, however, writes that Meadows all but admitted the positive test right after the flight. When she and Meadows were in a limo after the plane ride back to Washington from Minnesota, she writes, she asked if Trump had Covid.

He did not answer, but “his silence answered every question I had”, Hutchinson writes. “The virus had reached the highest echelons of power.”

Trump sickened rapidly but resisted his eventual hospitalization. Once ensconced at Walter Reed National Military medical center, he insisted on taking a limo ride to greet supporters, potentially endangering Secret Service agents. He then discharged himself before doctors deemed him ready, attempting to stage a triumphant return to the White House that convinced few observers.

In her memoir, Hutchinson also describes other scenes before and after Trump’s Covid bout in which he also showed disregard for his own safety and that of those around him.

On Thanksgiving Eve 2020, Hutchinson writes, a group of Pennsylvania legislators, brought to the White House by Rudy Giuliani as Trump sought to contest his defeat in the election by Biden, were tested for Covid shortly before meeting the president.

Several tested positive.

Hutchinson prepared to take only the guests who tested negative to the Oval Office, only to be ordered by Trump: “I said everyone! Bring them all! Bring them all now!”

Doctors who overheard “immediately urged me to push back”, Hutchinson writes, but she told them she “was not in the business of defying the president’s orders”. Sean Conley, then physician to the president, “reluctantly agreed” and told the Covid-positive guests to wear masks.

“When everyone had filed into the Oval Office,” though, Trump “instructed the masked guests to take off their masks. He assured them it was more important for him to see their beautiful faces, said he was not worried about contracting the virus.”

Trump, Hutchinson writes, said that because he had recently been infected, he did not fear contracting Covid again.

Trump’s own antipathy to masks, and its effect on willingness to mask up among his ardent supporters, was established early in the pandemic. Notably, Hutchinson describes a visit to a mask-making factory in Phoenix, Arizona, in May 2020, in the chaotic and frightening first months of the Covid onslaught.

Trump was widely criticised for not wearing a mask during the tour of the Honeywell facility, though workers did and a sign was visible that read: “Attention: Face Mask Required in this Area. Thank You!” In a coincidence widely if mordantly noted, Live and Let Die, Paul McCartney’s theme song to Roger Moore’s first appearance as James Bond, played as Trump toured the plant.

Trump told reporters he tried a mask but did not wear it after consulting the company chief executive. Hutchinson writes that in fact Trump “decided on a white mask”, then asked staffers what they thought.

“I slowly shook my head,” she writes. “The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.

“I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer.”

Trump’s reliance on heavy makeup is well documented.

“Why did no one else tell me that,” he snapped. “I’m not wearing this thing.”

“The press would criticise him for not wearing a mask,” Hutchinson writes, “not knowing that the depth of his vanity had caused him to reject masks – and then millions of his fans followed suit.”



https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/trump-meadows-joked-covid-plane-125209584.html

 

wrong thread

 

Ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson claims Rudy Giuliani groped her on January 6
Martin Pengelly
Wed, September 20, 2023 at 8:30 AM MDT·3 min read
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Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

Cassidy Hutchinson, the former aide turned crucial January 6 witness, says in a new book that she was groped by Rudy Giuliani , who was “like a wolf closing in on its prey”, on the day of the attack on the Capitol.

Describing meeting with Giuliani backstage at Donald Trump’s speech near the White House before his supporters marched on Congress in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election, Hutchinson says the former New York mayor turned Trump lawyer put his hand “under my blazer, then my skirt”.



The cover of Cassidy Hutchinson’s book, Enough. Photograph: AP
“I feel his frozen fingers trail up my thigh,” she writes. “He tilts his chin up. The whites of his eyes look jaundiced. My eyes dart to [Trump adviser] John Eastman, who flashes a leering grin.


“I fight against the tension in my muscles and recoil from Rudy’s grip … filled with rage, I storm through the tent, on yet another quest for Mark.”

Mark Meadows, Trump’s final chief of staff, was Hutchinson’s White House boss. Hutchinson’s memoir, Enough, describes her journey from Trump supporter to disenchantment, and her role as a key witness for the House January 6 committee. It will be published in the US next Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy.

Since Trump left office, Giuliani has landed in extraordinary legal and financial trouble. Like Trump, Giuliani has pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal racketeering and conspiracy charges in Georgia, over attempted election subversion. Giuliani was also found liable for defamation of two Georgia election workers. The Washington DC Bar Association has recommended he be disbarred.

Struggling to pay his legal expenses, his luxury New York apartment up for sale, and Giuliani also faces a $1.3m lawsuit from his own lawyer, seeking unpaid fees, and a $10m suit from a former personal assistant. In that suit, Giuliani is accused of offences including abuse of power, wage theft, sexual assault and harassment.

A representative for Giuliani did not immediately respond to a Guardian request for comment about Hutchinson’s description of her interaction with the former mayor.

Describing the events on January 6, the deadly culmination of Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden, Hutchinson writes that she “experience[d] anger, bewilderment, and a creeping sense of dread that something really horrible [was] going to happen”.

“I find Rudy in the back of the tent with, among others, John Eastman,” she continues. “The corners of his mouth split into a Cheshire cat smile. Waving a stack of documents, he moves towards me, like a wolf closing in on its prey.

“‘We have the evidence. It’s all here. We’re going to pull this off.’ Rudy wraps one arm around my body, closing the space that was separating us. I feel his stack of documents press into the small of my back. I lower my eyes and watch his free hand reach for the hem of my blazer.

“‘By the way,’ he says, fingering the fabric, ‘I’m loving this leather jacket on you.’ His hand slips under my blazer, then my skirt,” Hutchinson writes.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-trump-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-143020341.html

 

Wonder if we'll ever get to see the actual transcripts of Hutchinson and the secret service agents on January 6.
Still curious, what the fuck Nancy is hiding, eh?

 

Well, why do you think they filed in Georgia and not DC?

 

Ex-White House Aide Reveals Why Trump Wouldn't Wear A Mask During Pandemic
Ed Mazza
Updated Thu, September 21, 2023 at 6:08 AM MDT·2 min read
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A new book reveals why Donald Trump almost never wore a mask during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, even prior to the development of effective vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.

He was worried about his makeup, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, who was an aide to Mark Meadows when he served as Trump’s White House chief of staff.

The Guardian reports that her book, “Enough,” describes Trump’s visit to an Arizona Honeywell facility in May 2020 where he went maskless despite the fact that the facility itself was manufacturing them.

Hutchinson wrote that he tried a white mask before the event, then asked staffers for their opinions.

“I slowly shook my head. The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it,” she wrote. “I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer.”

He wasn’t happy about that.

“Why did no one else tell me that,” he said. “I’m not wearing this thing.”

Trump was almost never seen wearing one after that, with only a handful of exceptions.

“The press would criticize him for not wearing a mask, not knowing that the depth of his vanity had caused him to reject masks ― and then millions of his fans followed suit,” she wrote, according to The Guardian.

Trump has claimed he had a different reason for refusing to wear a mask.

Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker said in 2021 he told them it was about “the importance in his mind of looking strong, looking healthy, looking impenetrable.”

“Enough” will be released on Sept. 26, but is already making headlines for Hutchinson’s account of being groped by Rudy Giuliani backstage at Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021, rally that preceded the assault on Congress.

Giuliani has denied the incident.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-white-house-aide-reveals-061332617.html

 

Lower.
Oh, we just know despicables can go ever so much lower.

 

Ex-Trump Aide Tells CNN She Remembers Cassidy Hutchinson Telling Her About ‘Creepy or Handsy’ Rudy Amid Groping Bombshell
Tommy ChristopherSep 21st, 2023, 11:11 am
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CNN analyst and former Trump White House senior aide Alyssa Farah Griffin said she remembers Cassidy Hutchinson complaining about “creepy or handsy” Rudy Giuliani around the same time Hutchinson now says Rudy groped her.

Hutchinson is the former top aide to Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows who set the political media world on fire when she dropped bombshell after bombshell in her testimony to the January 6 committee. In her upcoming book “Enough” Hutchinson vividly describes being groped by Giuliani during Trump’s pre-riot speech on January 6, according to an advance copy obtained by The Guardian.

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN Primetime, Griffin told anchor Abby Phillip she remembered Hutchinson complaining about Giuliani, and that women in the Trump White House didn’t like to be around Rudy — and Trump “knew it”:

PHILLIP: She said Giuliani put his hand under her skirt, or under her blazer, then her skirt while they were backstage during Trump’s speech. She told you about this?

ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Well, I trust her implicitly. I remember about two years ago, her alluding to something, and I don’t want to misrepresent the words, either he was creepy or handsy with me.

But to put it into bigger context, those of us who were working the West Wing at that time knew that Rudy Giuliani was a wild card. He was something who was unpredictable. Being careful on how I say this, there were concerns, I don’t know if they’re true, that he would come to the White House campus inebriated.

So, that was something that even up to the former president’s level, there would be concerns, don’t let him do television hits from the White House lawn, be cautious about what meetings he’s in. And, frankly, the pattern of behavior makes sense to me. It doesn’t surprise me. It’s horrifying. It does not make it acceptable. And just big picture, this is such a historic, horrifying, bad moment for our country, this rally that’s happening on The Ellipse, the attempt to overthrow the election. And in that moment, this is also happening. I don’t think you can really fully process how significant that is, but I believe her implicitly.

PHILLIP: It’s layers upon layers here. And just so people understand, I mean, this idea that Rudy Giuliani was inebriated has come up before on the night of the election, for example, that’s been reported. But had you ever witnessed Giuliani doing inappropriate things, other women being concerned about being around him yourself perhaps?

GRIFFIN: My sense with Giuliani was I didn’t witness so much probably the sexual harassment. It was just there was a sense that he was not in control of himself, that he was somebody who was liable to say anything, to do anything. And there was a sense among women in the White House that you didn’t want to be around him. So, I think there may have been sort of that almost unspoken idea of like there’s something off here, you don’t want to be near him.

And, by the way, the former president knew it. Even though they’ve been friends for many years and there’re these times that they’re close, he obviously called him when his White House counsel gave him the counsel he did not want, he recognized that Rudy Giuliani was not the man he was 20, 30 years ago.

He recognized and openly talked about the fact that he had really kind of had been come debilitated from who he previously was.

Watch above via CNN Primetime.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/ex-tr...creepy-or-handsy-rudy-amid-groping-bombshell/

 

BUT HER EMAILS BUT HER EMAILS BUT HER EMAILS!!!!!!



Cassidy Hutchinson says Mark Meadows burned so many documents before leaving the White House that the then-chief of staff's wife complained about dry-cleaning bills to remove the 'bonfire' smell: report
John L. Dorman
Sat, September 23, 2023 at 9:54 AM MDT·3 min read
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• in her new book and during a New York Times interview described a White House steeped in paranoia.
  
  
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• Hutchinson alleged that Meadows burned files in his fireplace, which ran up his dry-cleaning costs.
  

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson in her new memoir said that onetime chief of staff Mark Meadows

burned so many documents in the waning days of the administration that his wife complained to her about the dry-cleaning bills to remove the burning smell from his clothes, according to The New York Times.

Hutchinson, who last year vaulted into the national spotlight after testifying before the House January 6 committee and remarking on the inner workings of the White House during Capitol riot, described to The Times an administration that was steeped in paranoia.

The former GOP aide told The Times that Meadows and other staffers feared that individuals from the "deep state" could potentially swoop in and find the documents they were disposing of.


Hutchinson in her memoir wrote that Meadows chose to dispose of documents in his fireplace in the waning days of the administration in January 2021, with Meadows' wife grumbling about the mounting expenses of removing the "bonfire" scent from his suits.

Earlier this week, Hutchinson — whose memoir, "Enough," will be released on Sept. 27 — accused former New York City mayor and ex-Trump personal attorney

of groping her on January 6, 2021. She also accused John Eastman, another pro-Trump attorney, of watching Giuliani as the ex-mayor put his hand "under my blazer, then my skirt" before offering a "leering grin."

Giuliani and Eastman were two of the most vocal backers of former

's debunked claims regarding the 2020 election. In August, Giuliani and Eastman were indicted by a Fulton County grand jury alongside Trump and 16 others over their efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential results in Georgia.

Both men through representatives vehemently denied Hutchinson's allegations.

In the memoir, Hutchinson wrote of how she felt "a creeping sense of dread that something really horrible [was] going to happen" on January 6.

While testifying before the House committee last year, she spoke of her exasperation at what she described as Meadows' lack of urgency as the Capitol riot unfolded, which disrupted the certification of now-President Joe Biden's 2020 electoral victory.

"I start to get frustrated because I sort of felt like I was looking at a bad car accident about to happen where you can't stop it but you want to be able to do something," she told the panel at the time. "I remember thinking in that moment, 'Mark needs to snap out of this and I don't know how to snap him out of this but he needs to care.'"

Insider reached out to Meadows for comment.

Read the original article on Business Insider



https://www.yahoo.com/news/cassidy-hutchinson-says-mark-meadows-155459313.html

 

Still waiting for her transcript and the transcripts of the security detail for Trump on January 6.
Wonder why the star chamber and Nancy Antoinette won't just release them?
Probably because if the truth came out Hutchinson's book sales would drop like an anvil and she was, you know, promised.

 

Cassidy Hutchinson says she once encountered MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell exploring the White House unescorted
John L. Dorman
Sat, September 23, 2023 at 11:24 AM MDT·2 min read
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MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell listens to former President Donald Trump speak in West Palm Beach, Florida.AP Photo/Lynne Sladky

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Former GOP aide Cassidy Hutchinson says she once ran into MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell roaming the White House unattended, making remarks backing former President Donald Trump's 2020 election claims.

In Hutchinson's forthcoming book, "Enough," the onetime aide to ex-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows wrote of how the White House was steeped in paranoia while also describing how it could also be a place with little oversight — which explained her interaction with Lindell.

Lindell was a fixture in the conservative push to overthrow now-President Joe Biden's electoral win immediately after the election that November.


On January 15, 2021, a week after the Capitol riot and just days before Trump was set to leave the White House, Hutchinson writes — according to excerpts of her book — that she found Lindell walking throughout the building without a staffer or a guide before he said: "We can still win."

That same day, Lindell was captured on the grounds of the White House by Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford, where the executive held a set of notes detailing his agenda during a meeting with Trump.


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One of the visible phrases on the paper read: "Insurrection Act now as a result of the assault on the ... martial law if necessary upon the first hint of any…," before trailing off out of view. Another note referenced a continued examination of the 2020 presidential election.

Hutchinson's book is set to be released on September 26.

Read the original article on Business Insider


https://www.yahoo.com/news/cassidy-hutchinson-says-mark-meadows-155459313.html

 

'There’s a brawl': Cassidy Hutchinson book describes scared Secret Service agent and Martial Law

Matthew Chapman
September 25, 2023 9:38PM ET



Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is sworn in during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 28, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP)


MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, privy to an advance copy of former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's book, regaled viewers on Monday night with one of the juicier passages. In it, Hutchinson details the moment that Hutchinson walked in on former President Donald Trump plotting martial law with his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, leading to chaos and a near revolt of half of his higher-ups.

"When I walked into the Outer Oval I saw that the president was meeting with General Mike Flynn, the former National Security Adviser, who had pled guilty to lying to the FBI about his involvement with Russian officials, cutting a cooperation deal in special counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry into interference in the 2016 election," Maddow read. "Three weeks before today's meeting on November 25th, Trump had issued Flynn a presidential pardon. 'Why is Mike Flynn here?' I asked Molly. 'I'm not sure,' Molly said, then added 'He is just talking to the president about some things.' Talking to the president about some things. 'Got it.' I went back to my office and settled in."

"Molly came to my office soon after and asked if we had a wine opener," the book continues, to which Hutchinson replied they didn't because Mark Meadows doesn't drink.

"I tried to joke but she did not crack even a slight smile. I sighed," Maddow continued reading. "'I know the Vice President has one. I'll call his assistant.' A few minutes later Pat Cippollone, Pat Philbin, Eric Herschmann and Derek Lyons barrelled down the hallway past my office door and rounded the corner toward the Oval Office. I was imagining various reasons Mike Flynn could have for being there that had the lawyers in a panic, but then I remembered it was Derek Lyons' last day at the White House and figured I was overthinking it. Flynn had probably left and maybe there was a toast for Derek in the Oval Office to celebrate his tenure at the White House. Pat Cipollone's top aide and Derek's fiancée, Liz Horning, wandered in and wondered if I knew what was going on in the Oval Office. She had dinner plans and could not get in touch with him. I said 'I'm not sure, but a bunch of people are in the Oval.'"

"On cue, we both turned toward the sound of raised voices from that direction," Maddow continued reading. "Though the Oval Office was a ten-second walk from my desk, it was highly unusual to hear any words coming. We could not make out distinct words, just people screaming at each other. Molly called me to come to the Outer Oval. Dan Scavino was pouring the last of a bottle of wine into a glass. The screaming was much louder than I anticipated. I looked into the Oval Office and saw a larger group. With the White House lawyers were Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell, and Patrick Byrne, the CEO of Overstock.com. How did all these people get inside the building? I could tell the meeting was growing more contentious, so I decided to text the Deputy Chief of Staff. 'Flynn is still here and Sidney Powell. There is a brawl.'"

"He responded, 'Oh, holy hell,'" says the book. "Tony immediately called and asked if I knew what they were brawling over. He had been in the Oval Office earlier that day and heard the president talk about invoking the Insurrection Act or Martial Law. If that's what they were arguing over, Tony said, I needed to get Mark Meadows back to the White House as soon as possible."

Meadows didn't want to get on the phone with Trump. Hutchinson tried to convey it was a matter of national security.

"A Secret Service agent standing outside the Oval Office came by. The agent said, 'I don't want to hear all of that. It's really upsetting. I wouldn't recommend going down there. The Oval Office is unhinged,'" the story continues.

"Dan stopped by on his way home and said, 'This is effed up. This can't be happening,' he said," Maddow continued. 'This is effing insane.' Pat Cipollone looked at me and said, 'This is nuts.'"

Maddow later included an excerpt from Hutchinson on Page 321: “An unhinged chief executive, willing to overturn the will of the people and plunge the country into chaos and violence on the advice of crazy people. For what? To avoid the embarrassment of conceding an election he knew he had lost?”

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What makes Cassidy Hutchinson such a great witness isn't that she's just so believable. She's also got a great eye for detail. And a lot of the time just confirming things we already knew.


Mark Meadows scrambled to 'figure out something to make Trump happy' as president raged over election loss: New book

Sarah K. Burris
September 26, 2023 3:46PM ET



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Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's new book, Enough, was released on Tuesday – and excerpts continue to make shocking revelations of the scene inside Donald Trump's final year in office.

After losing the 2020 election, Trump was raging with humiliation, she said.

“An unhinged chief executive, willing to overturn the will of the people and plunge the country into chaos and violence on the advice of crazy people. For what? To avoid the embarrassment of conceding an election he knew he had lost?” describes Hutchinson toward the end of the book.

In one incident, she recalls Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' desperate need to keep Trump from being angry at him.

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"Mark stuck his head out of his office that same day and said, 'The president’s real mad at me.' By then many of us knew that Trump had accused Mark of 'giving up' — failing to continue contesting the election results. 'Can you have the staff secretary print the one-year security memorandum for POTUS to sign?' he asked. 'I think that’ll make him happy.'"

Trump wanted a solid year of security for his adult children that would include limo service as well as staff. Hutchinson said that they should probably check with the Secret Service, and warned that publicity could be bad since it had never been done before.

“He’s so angry at me all the time. I can’t talk to him about anything post–White House without him getting mad that we didn’t win. I’m trying to figure out something to make him happy," said Meadows.

"I asked the acting staff secretary to draft two versions of the memo, one that gave Trump’s adult children six months of protection and one that gave them a year. The president signed both copies, and told Mark, 'You pick which one to deliver,'" she recalls.

She submitted the six-month letter. Trump's bad press for the decision flooded the news cycle, particularly after it was revealed how much his children cost taxpayers.

Secret Service extension for Trump’s adult children cost $140,000 in a single month, The Guardian reported in May 2021. At that rate, six months would cost $840,000 just in service to Trump's kids.

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