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Flood Of Scathing New Books  Angers Trump And Unnerves His Aides Reprinted with permission from Alternet Former President Donald Trump isnt very pleased about the onslaught of harsh new books and memoirs documenting his chaotic presidency, but there is just one problem with his disapproval. According to Politico, Trump actually conducted interviews for each book being released. The publication noted that Trump agreed to conduct interviews thinking it would put a "positive spin" on t...

How Mark Milley found himself caught up in Trumps political wars CNN 1 hr ago By Jeremy Herb, CNN © Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mark Milley testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing concerning the Department of Defense budget in the Hart Senate Office Building on March 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. In December 2018, then-President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would nominate Gen. Mark Milley as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Milley was not th...

Haberman recommends this piece (and shes writing a book herself): This is a really good account of Milley’s real-time fears on military action, which were not illegal nuke launches but domestic use of the military after a summer of Trump calling for the insurrection act in cities and a potential strike on Iran @sbg1https://t.co/0dTymLMdAS — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 16, 2021 When folks try to say that Jan 6 wasn’t that bad, recall the reaction of the top officials in the governmen...

Share this - copied While new books expose the disturbing final days of the Trump administration, GOP leader Kevin McCarthy remains close to former president Trump. MSNBC’s Ari Melber is joined by presidential historian Jon Meacham and author Michael Bender to discuss who’s actually running the GOP and the bombshell new reports against citizen Trump. Trump denies all these reports.July 16, 2021 ReadMore

Share this - copied As citizen Donald Trump’s namesake company faces a criminal probe in New York, several new books expose the “horrifying” final days of his administration. One details how Trump displayed no regard for Mike Pence as MAGA rioters targeted the former Vice President during the January 6 insurrection. Other reporting outlines how Trump generals and officials braced to thwart a potential coup. According to another new book, Michael Bender’s “Frankly, We Did Win This Elec...

Decertify the election. goes back to donald trump insistence he did win an election that he lost. with me now is the man who wrote the book on that very subject, michael bender, "wall street journal" political reporter, author of the new book "frankly, we did win this election: the inside story of how trump lost." friend of the show. finally youre on. ive been jealous watching you everywhere. im glad to talk to you. >> looking forward to this, hallie. really glad to be here. >> tgif. election ni...

Including the midterms as they try to take back the house. quickly, mike, what is your read on their relationship and how that progresses? >> its a good question. the republicans definitely had a choice here headed into 2022 about whether theyre going to try to redefine the party post-trump. this is their opportunity to do it. what this book does is lay out the details and stark relief in new ways that there is no excuse to go into that decision with other than their eyes wide open. >> michael b...

President trump taking military action to strike iran. >> here is some of the glasser report. milley was worried that trump might set in motion a full scale conflict that was not justified. trump had a circle of iran hawks around him and was close with benjamin netanyahu who was also urging the administration to act against iran after it was clear that trump had lost the election. quote, if you do this, youll have an fing war, milley would say. >> you think that is compelling? listen to our next...

Me, that we can stand here and by the bigger patriots because people prioritize power over patriotism. >> they hold us accountable in a heartbeat. >> they hold us accountable and we disproportionately suffer at the hand of this crazy and policy. we have to leave it there. thank you so much michael bender. your book is great. michael steele, thaing for joining. covid cases are on the rise with four states accounting for 40% of the new cases. the cdc director says this now becoming pandemic of t...

New York Magazine, says Milley grew increasingly concerned about the dangerous rhetoric coming from the president: Leonnig and Rucker wrote that Milley “believed Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military.” The general likened the U.S. to Germany’s fragile Weimar Republic in the early 1930s. “This is a Reichstag moment,” he said, referring to the arson attack on Germany’s Parliament that Hitler used as a pretext ...