NEW YORK (Dagbladet): Trump is now indicted on 88 counts for various offenses in four different criminal cases. At the same time, he is well positioned to become the next president of the United States again after the election in November.
Next week comes a new book, “The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis,” written by noted ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos and author Lisa Dickey.
– Corrupt as hell
The Guardian has now obtained a copy of the book, which provides new details from Trump’s previous, chaotic presidency.
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– Shaded away
Among other things, Trump’s adviser at the time, Tom Bossert, claims that some of Trump’s first cabinet members, Defense Minister James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, stayed away from Trump.
– Any person with sense – people like Mattis or Tillerson – they immediately shunned and stayed away from Trump, says Bossert in the book and continues:
– You couldn’t get Mattis to the White House. His view was: There is a screaming frenzy in a circular room. The less time I spend there, the more time I can spend on my job, says Bossert.
Mattis was a retired general who became Trump’s first secretary of defense. He resigned in January 2019. In June 2020, before the last presidential election, he issued a dramatic warning against re-electing Trump. He described Trump as a threat to American democracy, according to The Atlantic.
Tillerson was a former oil executive who became Trump’s first secretary of state. Already in October 2017, The New Yorker reported that Tillerson himself had described Trump as a “damn idiot”. He remained secretary of state until March 2018 when he was fired by Trump via Twitter.
Shaken the judge: – Potentially threatening
Busted
Bossert worked for Trump in the White House from January 2017 to April 2018. He is now an analyst for ABC News.
His job was to advise Trump on data security, and he came down hard on leaks from the Trump administration. But in August 2017, it emerged that Bossert himself had given his private email address to a British prankster, who pretended to be Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Trump himself has also expressed himself that he is very frustrated by all the leaks when he was president. In the new book, however, Bossert claims that he himself caught Trump off guard.
– I caught him doing it. I was on my way out of the room and he picked up the phone while I could still hear it and started talking to a reporter about what had happened. I turned around, pointed straight at him and said, Who the hell are you talking to? says Bossert in the book, according to The Guardian.
Trump is said to have simply shrugged his shoulders.
– His paranoia is due, among other things, to the fact that he assumes that everyone else behaves the way he does, claims Bossert.
