Last minute
So far seven officials associated with Trump and his inner circle have said they are quitting, including members of Melania Trump’s team, after the deadly violence that surrounded the Congressional vote to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in November.
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In further fallout that underlined the fracturing of the Trump administration’s inner circles, Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, indicated to journalists he had been banned from the White House by Trump after the president “blamed” him for advice he gave to Pence on Trump’s demands he overturn the election result.
He was shocked, shocked, to discover that Trump blames people for things.
In stark language that underlined the toxic and swirling sense of crisis, the Washington Post quoted one administration official describing Trump’s behaviour on Wednesday as that of “a monster,” while another said the situation was “insane” and “beyond the pale”.
But everything before that was acceptable?
H/t Omar
Oh yes. Before yesterday, he was sush a nice and reasonable president, so dignified and presidential, not to mention empathetic and a staunch defender of the democratic process, nobody – I tell you, nobody – could possibly have foreseen his suddenly outrageous behaviour. It must have been a late effect of covid-19. Oh wait, scratch that. Covid-19 does not exist. I almost forgot. Well, maybe it was something he ate.
Maybe a poisoned golf ball.