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Lasher

(29,666 posts) Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:06 PM Feb 2021

Bonus episode: Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency

Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office. It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official.

"How the hell did Sidney get in the building?" White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann grumbled from the outer Oval Office as Sidney Powell and her entourage strutted by to visit the president.

President Trump's private schedule hadn't included appointments for Powell or the others: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and a little-known former Trump administration official, Emily Newman. But they'd come to convince Trump that he had the power to take extreme measures to keep fighting.

As Powell and the others entered the Oval Office that evening, Herschmann - a wealthy business executive and former partner at Kasowitz Benson & Torres who'd been pulled out of quasi-retirement to advise Trump - quietly slipped in behind them.

https://www.axios.com/trump-oval-office-meeting-sidney-powell-a8e1e466-2e42-42d0-9cf1-26eb267f8723.html

Long read but well worth the time. If you want to know just how nutty Trump and his followers are, then here ya go.

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Bonus episode: Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency (Original Post) Lasher Feb 2021 OP

The entire series "Off the Rails" is excellent hauckeye Feb 2021 #1

This is the first part I've read. Lasher Feb 2021 #2

This is must read Johnny2X2X Feb 2021 #3

Read this one next: Lasher Feb 2021 #5

Kick grantcart Feb 2021 #4

That was a fun read. SoonerPride Feb 2021 #6

I just finished the NYT article I linked upthread. Lasher Feb 2021 #7

It reads like a screen play MichaelSoE Feb 2021 #8

hauckeye

(809 posts)

1. The entire series "Off the Rails" is excellent

Reply to Lasher (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:08 PM

Feb 2021

Lasher

(29,666 posts)

2. This is the first part I've read.

Reply to hauckeye (Reply #1)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:12 PM

Feb 2021

They just mentioned that bizarre December 18 meeting on CNN. So here we are.

Johnny2X2X

(24,435 posts)

3. This is must read

Reply to Lasher (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:15 PM

Feb 2021

The fact people like this were in the White House is so disturbing. The sanctity of our Democracy was under assault.

Lasher

(29,666 posts)

5. Read this one next:

Reply to Johnny2X2X (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:45 PM

Feb 2021

77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election

grantcart

(53,061 posts)

4. Kick

Reply to Lasher (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 01:17 PM

Feb 2021

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)

6. That was a fun read.

Reply to Lasher (Original post)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 03:33 PM

Feb 2021

And by "fun" I mean absolutely terrifying.

Lasher

(29,666 posts)

7. I just finished the NYT article I linked upthread.

Reply to SoonerPride (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 2, 2021, 05:03 PM

Feb 2021

It is an even longer read and it's even more "fun."

MichaelSoE

(1,576 posts)

8. It reads like a screen play

Reply to Lasher (Original post)

Wed Feb 3, 2021, 10:18 AM

Feb 2021

I have the 77 days book marked and eagerly await for some time to read it. Thank you for the post.

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