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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:24 AM Jan 2021

Aides weigh resignations, removal options as Trump rages against perceived betrayals

Source: Washington Post

People who interacted with Trump on Wednesday said they found him in a fragile and volatile state. He spent the afternoon and evening cocooned at the White House and listening only to a small coterie of loyal aides — including Meadows, deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino, personnel director Johnny McEntee and policy adviser Stephen Miller. Many of his top confidants — Meadows, son-in-law Jared Kushner and first lady Melania Trump, among others — were publicly silent.

“He’s got a bunker mentality now, he really does,” the close adviser said.

As rioters broke through police barricades and occupied the Capitol, paralyzing the business of Congress, aides said Trump resisted entreaties from some of his advisers to condemn the marauders and refused to be reasoned with.

“He kept saying: ‘The vast majority of them are peaceful. What about the riots this summer? What about the other side? No one cared when they were rioting. My people are peaceful. My people aren’t thugs,’ ” an administration official said. “He didn’t want to condemn his people.”






Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-resignations-25th-amendment/2021/01/07/e131ce10-50a3-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
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brooklynite

(93,873 posts)
1. Trump ad-libbed his "go home" speech
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:26 AM
Jan 2021
White House aides tried to get Trump to call into Fox News Channel, but he refused. He at first did not want to say anything, but was persuaded to send some tweets. Then they scripted a video message for him to record, which he agreed to distribute on Twitter. But the president ad-libbed by including references to false voter fraud claims that they had asked him not to include, the administration official said. Twitter later locked his account, enraging the president.

exboyfil

(17,857 posts)
4. Bunker mentality
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:45 AM
Jan 2021

Those parodies from Downfall have nothing on this.

Earlier in the day we had a Congresswoman talking about how Hitler was right about influencing the ethical values of our children. A topic in which the Christian Bible, other sacred texts, numerous theologians, and humanists have given the same advice. She walked past all of them and got to Hitler.

Mary Miller is her name. Bless her Aryan heart.

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,897 posts)
5. "Trump walked back and forth between the Oval Office and White House dining room watching ..."
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:49 AM
Jan 2021
"Trump walked back and forth between the Oval Office and White House dining room watching the events at the Capitol and was initially pleased by the disturbance, the people said -- a reaction that alarmed many of his aides,” reports Bloomberg News.



White House Officials Weigh Exits After Trump Incites Mayhem

By Jennifer Jacobs, Saleha Mohsin, and Jordan Fabian
January 7, 2021, 12:58 AM EST Updated on January 7, 2021, 8:12 AM EST

‣ O’Brien to stay after appeals from allies outside White House
‣ Deputy national security advisor resigns over Capitol attack

{snip}

Inside Trump’s White House, there is anger and consternation over the unprecedented violence that unfolded as Congress began counting Electoral College votes to confirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Before Trump held a rally with thousands of supporters outside the White House in the morning, he spoke with Vice President Mike Pence by phone, urging him to reject some of Biden’s votes while presiding over the count in a joint session of Congress. Trump told Pence that he could either be courageous or not, using a vulgarity, according to two people familiar with the matter. ... During the rally, the president exhorted his supporters to march on the Capitol. Crowds swelled before protesters finally broke through police lines and entered the building just after the joint session got underway.

It took aides about 45 minutes to persuade Trump to issue a tweet urging protesters against violence after they entered the building, according to people familiar with the matter. ... Those who tried to reason with the president included his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, the people said, asking not to be identified. ... Meadows and the president’s daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka Trump, later persuaded Trump to film a short video he posted on Twitter, in which he repeated his unfounded claims of election fraud and held the protesters blameless for the violence while urging them to go home.

Trump walked back and forth between the Oval Office and White House dining room watching the events at the Capitol and was initially pleased by the disturbance, the people said -- a reaction that alarmed many of his aides. ... The White House declined to comment.

{snip}

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
12. Yes, but I'm conflicted. He'd be a martyr with a ready made hagiography & avoids deterrent prosecuti
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:33 AM
Jan 2021

"Oh he gave everything he had to saving America but the Deep State overwhelmed him and drove him crazy with overwork trying to save us."

He would avoid prosecution. A commission of inquiry does not have the same impact as charges and conviction and jail time, however unlikely or likely they may be.

He needs to be prosecuted and his presidency needs to be exposed for all its corruption at all levels but especially him at the top. This is necessary otherwise another authoritarian ideologue will try it again soon.

Clash City Rocker

(3,379 posts)
13. His cult sees him as strong. Suicide is about the weakest thing you can do
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:51 AM
Jan 2021

I’m not sure he would be considered a martyr for something he does to himself.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
14. Their rationalization would be he was strong but courts, rigged votes & Deep State was all against
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:04 PM
Jan 2021

... all against him.

The narrative on the RW sites is that they are the only ones helping him in the whole country.

The Democrats have declared all out war on America. We need a good
crisis to change course. This is no time for the faint of heart as
there is no one with the resolve to save the country other than
President Donald J. Trump.
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cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
15. Plus they would push insane conspiracy theories such
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 01:05 PM
Jan 2021

as claiming he was actually murdered by the supposed Deep State.

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