“ I Alone Can Fix It,” the buzzy new book by Washington Post writers Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, reports that Ivanka Trump “had become increasingly uncomfortable with efforts to overturn the election results” and that, when her father was badgering his vice president to help in the nefarious scheme, she fretted to a national security official, “Mike Pence is a good man.”
Her lived experience is that she only went to her father’s Jan. 6 “Save America Rally” to keep him on an even keel. Never mind the fact that once Daddy’s mob began doing its worst, she addressed the scofflaws on Twitter as “American patriots.”
After breaking creative new ground in the area of sycophancy, Pence said last month in a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library that he was “proud” that he certified the election.
And there’s former Attorney General William Barr, who backed up so much of Trump’s insanity, only to see the light after he left the job, telling ABC News journalist Jonathan Karl for his new book, “Betrayal,” that Trump’s claims of election fraud were “ all bullshit.”
Michael Bender of The Wall Street Journal reports in his book, “‘Frankly, We Did Win This Election,’” that Mike Pompeo, the top diplomat who was so often a toady for Trump, started acting all concerned after the election that Trump might start an international conflict to stay in office.
“The crazies have taken over,” Pompeo told a colleague, according to Bender.
The crazies hadn’t taken over. They were there all along, enabling the other crazies.
-M.Dowd |
