"It is an America where
white supremacists can march in the open; politicians can spread lies,
push hate, and make millions from it; and violent mobs can storm
capitols and threaten politicians if they don't like the result of an
election.
This is Donald Trump's America."
The newly-revealed series of emails (released June 15) sent by former President Donald Trump's senior advisers after Trump's 2020 election loss to top Justice Department officials are stark evidence of a White House gone mad.
The emails themselves look like the stuff that normally gets routed to your spam folder: wild conspiracy theories about election fraud, absurd suggestions on strategy to overturn the already-completed and certified election, desperate entreaties from unhinged fantasists dreaming of flipping the election's outcome. But these were not junk emails from some trolls -- they were sent from the top echelons of power in the White House to the Justice Department, in a genuine effort to overturn an American election.
In a sense, none of this is surprising. The emails, sent in December 2020 and January 2021 -- well after it was clear to any reasonable person that the election was over and Joe Biden had defeated Trump -- are the inevitable end result of four years of Trump using the Justice Department as a political tool, with US Attorneys General Jeff Sessions and William Barr largely playing right along.
In a sinister sense, Trump and his top advisers acted purposefully and deliberately. Their efforts to steal an election and undercut democracy are clear. And as the efforts of Trump and his followers to continue spreading the Big Lie continue and intensify, we need to remember just how close Trump and his enablers came to succeeding the first time.
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Trump reportedly is not being courted by major book publishers to write his post-White House memoirs. While there is certainly an audience for his message, behind the scenes, the thought of editing a Trump book is being touted as “a fact-checking nightmare,” per Politico.
The headaches the project would bring would far outweigh the potential in the eyes of a major publisher. There are concerns about “an exodus of other authors, and a staff uprising” if a publishing house signed the former president
If you talk to Trump, he has a much different answer about writing a book about his administration. He claims that “two of the biggest and most prestigious publishing houses have made very substantial offers which I have rejected,” per statement to Politico. He didn’t name who the publishers were, but he has “started writing the book” and of course, it “will be the biggest of them all.”
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The former president is telling those in his inner circle that he will be back in power by August. He has the support of his QAnon followers, who have been parroting the theory that the election was stolen from the 45th president, even though he lost the electoral and the popular vote in November 2020.
Trump has no recourse in this situation. The election results were certified on January 7 (remember when the process was interrupted on January 6?), and being reinstated as president is neither legal nor constitutional — yet Trump persists. By doubling down on his claims that the election was stolen from him, it fires up his loyal voting base with grander conspiracy theories and murmurs of coup possibilities.
Trump has no one grounding him in the reality that he lost the election fair and square.
