'These are my people': Here are the 5 most shocking revelations from Woodward and Costa’s new Trump book

Meaghan Ellis, AlterNet
September 17, 2021



Jared Kushner and Donald Trump (Photo: White House)


Astounding claims about former President Donald Trump are being highlighted in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's new book, "Peril." Here are five of the most shocking revelations from the book.

1. Trump was angry with Paul Ryan for criticizing protestors in Charlottesville because "these are my people."

According to "Peril," as reported by HuffPost, the former president was not pleased when Ryan spoke out against white supremacy after the "Unite the Right" rally that took place in Charlottesville, Va., back in 2017.

At the time, Ryan described white supremacy as "repulsive" after Trump suggested there were good people on "both sides." Ryan also insisted that Trump had "a moral leadership obligation to get this right and not declare there is a moral equivalency here."

A furious Trump reportedly phoned Ryan and chastised him for not being "in the foxhole" with him.

"These people love me. These are my people," Trump reportedly told Ryan. "I can't backstab the people who support me."

2. Trump's claim that there were good people "on both sides" was fueled by "Unite the Right" rally goers' overwhelming support of him.

At one point during his call with Ryan, he admitted that there were "some bad people," but because of their support for him, many of them were also "good people."

"I get that. I'm not for that. I'm against all that," Trump reportedly said. "But there's some of those people who are for me. Some of them are good people."

3. General Mark Milley had defense officials take a secret oath when Trump became too unpredictable following the Capitol riots.

General Mark Milley had great concerns about Trump's mental health following the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol. In fact, he was so concerned about the president's impulsiveness that he secretly had top defense officials take a private oath. They were to report to him first if Trump ordered them to launch nukes.

"No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure," Milley told the officers, according to the book. The top-ranking military advisor is also said to have "gone around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood."

4. Trump threw tantrum when Pence refused to help him overturn the presidential election.

According to the book, Trump reached an unprecedented point of desperation when he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to aide him in his effort to overturn the election. According to Vanity Fair, Woodard and Costa detailed one encounter where Trump whined and told Pence they wouldn't be friends anymore if he didn't participate.

After relentlessly pressuring Pence despite him having no real authority to do his bidding, Trump resorted to threats.

"You don't understand, Mike," Trump said. "You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this."

"If you don't do it, I picked the wrong man four years ago," adding, "You're going to wimp out."

5. Trump believed Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) betrayed him.

Trump was enraged when McCarthy condemned January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. According to Trump, it was the ultimate betrayal. The book sheds light on Trump's reaction to McCarthy's words.

"This guy called me every single day, pretended to be my best friend, and then, he f****d me," Mr Trump reportedly said of the top-ranking Republican lawmaker back in February. "He's not a good guy."

"Peril" Is set to be released on September 21.

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'He thinks it was a great day': ABC reporter's new book reveals how Trump still celebrates Jan. 6

David Edwards
September 19, 2021



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ABC correspondent Jonathan Karl revealed on Sunday that he is writing a new book that has left him "dumbfounded" at former President Donald Trump's affinity for the rally that incited a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"I'm not sure his influence is waning," Karl said of Trump. "Trump also called [the rioters] protesters. And I can tell you from my interviews for Trump for my book that's going to be coming out, I was absolutely dumbfounded at how fondly he looks back Jan. 6."

"He thinks it was a great day," he noted. "He thinks it was one of the greatest days of his time in politics. Now, he doesn't necessarily say that because of the storming of the Capitol. He has this sense that this was like the biggest crowd he'd ever seen."

Karl added: "But, look, he sees that incredibly fondly and his hold on the Republican Party has been far more resilient than I thought it would be."

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Robert Costa Insists Milley’s China Call Wasn’t ‘Rogue’ But Believed Trump Had ‘Serious Mental Decline’
By Aidan McLaughlinSep 20th, 2021, 9:48 am
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General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has faced scrutiny and calls for his resignation over two calls made to his Chinese counterpart in the last days of the Trump administration to calm fears that the U.S. was planning to attack China.

Those calls, the first which came days before the 2020 election and the second days after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, were revealed in Peril, a new book by Robert Costa and Bob Woodward.

Some Republican lawmakers have called on Milley to resign, accusing him of seeking to undermine then-President Donald Trump and usurp civilian control of the military. Milley has defended his actions as legal.

In an interview on Good Morning America Monday, Woodward and Costa insisted the calls were not “hidden” from others in the administration, despite being on a “top secret backchannel.”

“The Chinese were highly alarmed by what happened on January 6th,” Costa said. “What Chairman Milley was trying to do, as we show in the book, was contain a national security emergency.”


“He was reading people in. While these calls with General Lee were held on a top-secret backchannel, they were not secret. This was not someone who was working in isolation.”

“He was not going rogue?” ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos asked.

“He was not going rogue,” Costa said. “He was reading people in throughout the national security and military community, trying to contain a situation, and a president who he believed was in serious mental decline.”

Watch above, via ABC News.


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McConnell and other Republicans gathered to laugh at Trump being called a 'moron' by Rex Tillerson: book





Mitch McConnell (Screen Capture)


The ongoing battle between former President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was evident Monday evening as excerpts from the new book Peril continued to be leaked ahead of the Tuesday release.

Speaking to MSNBNC's Lawrence O'Donnell, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported a gathering of Senate colleagues in the cloakroom after Trump's former secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, called his ex-boss an "f*cking moron."

"'Do you know why Tillerson was able to say that he didn't call the president a 'moron?' McConnell would dryly ask colleagues in his Kentucky drawl. 'Because he called him a f*cking moron!'"

It was also reported in the book that behind the scenes, McConnell worked with then-President-elect Joe Biden to ensure a stable transition because Trump refused.

Since his time in office, Trump has waged his own mini-war against McConnell. He is reportedly working behind the scenes to get Republicans to vote McConnell out of the leadership.

The excerpt from O'Donnell goes on to describe more of the exchange between Trump and the former vice president as the president pressured Mike Pence to overturn the election on Jan. 6.

It also described a scene in which Trump's aides were freezing because he wanted to have the doors open on Jan. 5 to hear his supporters cheering for him outside of the White House.

"Isn't that great!" Trump exclaimed. "Tomorrow's going to be a big day."

See the opener with O'Donnell below:



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'Very bad ideas': Bob Woodward explains the driving reason why Trump will run again

Tom Boggioni
September 21, 2021



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At the conclusion of a very long interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday morning, the Washington Post's Bob Woodward was asked by the hosts of the program his gut feeling over whether Donald Trump will make another run for the presidency.

The author -- along with Robert Costa -- of the bombshell book "Peril" detailing the last days of the Trump presidency, said he had no doubts the ex-president would -- and for a very specific reason.

"The idea of Trump running again," co-host Willie Geist began. "It's a question that hangs over the country right now. Will he run for president again? What will go into the former president's decision about whether he'll run or not in 2024?"

"The Woodward method of reporting is to sit down with people for five, six even eight hours," co-author Robert Costa replied. "We have been sitting down with people close to President Trump for many months. You start to hear a certain refrain from people who really know him: he wants back, that he feels he has the political capital with his core supporters. He likes playing golf and he jokes that he is off Twitter but this is someone who wants back into the presidency. He believes the Republican Party is still very much in his grip that people are not going to war with him at the highest ranks of the party."

"Once back " Woodward interjected, "and if you get into the question, which is important to do what? And the answer is to be Donald Trump. That's not an agenda. That does not connect to the needs of the people in the country."

"His disconnection from that, the struggle that people are engaged in, he has no idea and again, the power of the presidency is so great," he continued. "Good things can be done and good things have been done to mobilize that power and make sure that it's going to be in the interests of the people and the country. And you know, I think I would argue and I mean -- also, it's true that this book is not a partisan harangue -- it's something where Democrats and Republicans, people on the left and right say what did he do with the presidency?"

"Why were there so many people who held him in disdain?" he added. "They would checkmate him because he would have very bad ideas, even bad ideas for him."

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'Oh my God Jesus': Paul Ryan floored when he learned of Trump White House chaos — according to Woodward book





Paul Ryan speaks to Fox News (screen grab)


It was during the time of the 2018 omnibus spending bill going to President Donald Trump's administration and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R) was furious after hearing Fox News pundits trash it on the morning shows, the new book Peril said from the Washington Post's Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Then-Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) was coming to the White House for a meeting. He anticipated a normal meeting with the president but what he got was far from it. Trump began yelling the second he entered, the book describes. He was threatening to veto it, sending the government into a shutdown.

"This is a terrible deal! Who signed off on this piece of sh*t?" Trump raged. "This is a piece of shi*, a bad f*cking deal. The wall! It's not in here!"

Ryan explained he had to sign the bill because Congress had just passed it. The book describes it as a kind of last-minute freakout because Trump hadn't been paying attention to the negotiations and just discovered the budget because of his morning Fox News viewing.

"I mean, we discussed this already. This is the military. This is the rebuild. This is veterans," said Ryan.

"Who the hell approved that?" Trump continued to rage as no one responded. This went on for an hour until Ryan finally asked if he'd sign it or not. Trump said yes.

But it was what happened after Ryan left the Oval Office that revealed the most about Trump and the White House. It was March 2018 and they'd already been in office for over a year, but apparently, Ryan never spent that much time there.

After Trump left Ryan asked Marc Short, an adviser to Mike Pence who took over legislative matters for Trump, "What the hell was that?"

"It's like this every day around here," Short said according to the book.

"Oh my God. Jesus," Ryan replied. He had no idea.

The year before, after Trump's notorious "both sides" comment about the Charlottesville riots, Ryan was on the side of a mountain in Colorado hiking with his family. One of his secret service team members handed him a satellite phone because he had to dictate a refutation of Trump's comments. Yet, seven months later, Ryan still didn't fully understand what he was dealing with.

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday night, Dr. Mary Trump alleged it was absurd because if they were paying even the slightest bit of attention they would have known what to expect from Trump.

Less than a month after the Oval Office confrontation, Ryan announced his retirement at the age of just 48 and after being the Speaker for only a few years.

The new book Peril is on sale now and details some of the most bizarre moments in the Trump White House.

https://www.rawstory.com/paul-ryan-donald-trump-peril/

 

Trump didn't want to build golf course in Africa because he feared getting mauled by lions: Woodward





Donald Trump golfing at Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach (Twitter)


Peril, the new book by reporters Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, has revealed a slew of bizarre anecdotes about former President Donald Trump and his life post-presidency.

One detail in Peril described Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Trump playing golf with Gary Player, an 85-year-old South African winner of major tournaments.

Graham was hoping to persuade Trump to stay loyal to the GOP and help get more Republicans elected. Player was trying to help Trump with his swing. He was using his big club and an erratic swing. Player tried to urge more "control" and "toning it down, swinging less extravagantly."

Costa and Woodward said Graham saw it as a metaphor for Trump's entire political career, though one could argue his life.

Player suggested that he would build a golf resort in Africa, but the president made it clear he was concerned about being eaten by lions.

"What happens, Gary, when two lions look out and say, 'You know, that's a pretty thick guy. I'd like to eat him. Let's go eat him,' " Trump joked.

"Well, they've got fences and stuff," Player explained.

"You mean they can't climb over a fence?" Trump asked according to the book. "If you get in a Jeep, they won't come into the Jeep."

"How do you know they won't come into the Jeep?" Trump asked.

"I'm not betting my life on it," Graham said.

During his presidency, Trump referred to those coming from Africa as "sh*thole countries."

The book Peril goes on sale Tuesday.

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-golf-africa-lions/

 

Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are of course hitting all the cable news shows to plug their new book Peril but its not like any book tour I have ever seen. They are more or less saying the book documents how close to Trump becoming a dictator we really were. But what is more important they say is there may be a better chance of Trump becoming a dictator than there was before. Because Trump and treasonous conservative/Republicans may have failed this time but only because a few good people chose the Constitution and democracy over Trump. But Trump and treasonous conservative/Republicans have been working tirelessly ever since to make sure they get their loyalists in and the good people out so they can steal the next election.


‘Peril Remains’: Bob Woodward Explains Why Democracy is Still Threatened Because ‘Trump is Still Out There’
By Colby HallSep 22nd, 2021, 7:45 am
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Spoiler alert: The final words of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book detailing the last days of the Trump administration and transition to President Joe Biden are “Peril remains.”

CNN host John Berman revealed this detail to viewers of New Day who have not yet completed the book Peril, which was published Tuesday amid breathless headlines detailing reporting from the book that is both shocking and entirely predictable.

One of the many unbelievable reports revealed by the book is a “six-point plan drawn up by John Eastman to overturn the 20th election loss,” as Berman put it. He then turned to the last page of the book, astutely framing its theme (which has been missed by many, it seems.) “Your last two words circled right here, ‘peril remains.’ Bob, why is this so important?” he asked.

“Well, because Trump is out there,” Woodward flatly replied. “Bob Costa and I think he’s going to run again. He clearly has support; some of the polling shows he would beat Biden. ”

“Now, Trump is out there, we have democracy — anyone can run for president — but we know what he did for four years,” Woodward continued. “And what he did is not worry enough about the people in the country, worried about his own political standing, his impulses, and I think the basic theme of our book is, his actions were not just a problem in the United States, it was a national security emergency.”

Costa supported his colleague’s assertion, explaining how the two of them “started off thinking it was a crisis, and we concluded based on our reporting it’s an emergency. That’s why the peril remains.”

After explaining how top cabinet officials openly worried about a right-wing coup, he continued. “You had the erosion of all the people around President Trump not corralling him in the presidency. That’s why we believe, based on our reporting, that the peril does remain. The system barely held together.” He then finished the rhetorical question, “Will it hold together again if presented with similar circumstances?”

Woodward is an expert on Trump by now, having interviewed the former president 18 times for his last book.

The clear theme of Peril is not a rehash or account of what transpired over the past year or so. It is a waving red flag designed to warn the electorate and chattering class that this story is far from over.

Watch above via CNN.

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No shit. In fact Trump went on a tirade attacking Lindsey Graham last night.

Lindsey Graham failed spectacularly at repairing Trump’s relationship with Mike Pence: Woodward book

Bob Brigham
September 16, 2021



Trump kissing Mike Pence (Photo: Screen capture)


Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) failed in his efforts to get Donald Trump to apologize to Mike Pence.

"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify," Trump tweeted on January 6th.

According to the new book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of The Washington Post, Graham worried he had to repair the relationship or it would hurt the GOP's chances in the 2022 midterm elections, Business Insider reported Thursday.

"The main thing you've got to do is repair the damage with Mike Pence," Graham reportedly said. "I think there's universal belief that Mike Pence was incredibly loyal to you and you treated him poorly."

But Trump reportedly responded, "No way."

"You got caught up in losing the election you thought you won. I get that. But you asked more of Mike Pence than he could deliver, and you said things about him that were unfair. And I think the best thing for you, Mr. President, is to fix that if you can," Graham reportedly went on, to silence from Trump.

Read the full report.

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This sounds like its going to be both a bad one and really fun one.

Trump had a colonoscopy at Walter Reed — but wouldn't use anesthesia because it'd hand Pence control: new book





Trump, Mike Pence and CDC for coronavirus (Photo: Screen capture)

Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham's new book revealed a slew of previously unknown details hidden by President Donald Trump's administration. According to her book, Trump had to have a colonoscopy but refused to go under anesthesia because doing so would incapacitate him.

The New York Times reported the excerpt of the book Tuesday, possibly explaining a "mysterious" 2019 trip to Walter Reed that was never fully disclosed to the public. When a president is under anesthesia, they would have to temporarily sign over power to the vice president, but Trump didn't want to hand over any control to Mike Pence.

Trump also didn't want anyone to know about the colonoscopy because he assumed he'd be "the butt of a joke" for late-night comedians.

While Grisham didn't specify the procedure, she gave enough details to make it clear what it was. She called it "a very common procedure" for which "a patient is sometimes put under." She even noted that former President George W. Bush had one as president. Bush signed over his powers to former Vice President Dick Cheney when he underwent a colonoscopy in 2007.

She noted in the book that Trump could have used the procedure as an opportunity to promote good health and cancer screenings, "but as with COVID, he was too wrapped up in his own ego and his own delusions about his invincibility."

Trump has responded to the book not by refuting the allegations, but by attacking Grisham and her job performance.

Read the full report.

In other revelations from books on Tuesday, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump tried to push their way into meeting Queen Elizabeth II during a presidential visit, according to a new book. WATCH:

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Stephanie Grisham Claims Trump Once Called Her to Explain His Penis Was Not Small or ‘Toadstool Shaped’

 

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Putin tried to freak out 'germaphobe' Trump at infamous 2019 meeting: new book





US President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Hamburg, Germany, on July 7, 2017 (AFP).


On Wednesday, Business Insider reported that former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham's new book alleges Russian President Vladimir Putin deliberately tried to trigger former President Donald Trump's fear of germs by pointedly coughing in a 2019 meeting.

"Throughout the meeting, which was closed to journalists, Putin coughed or cleared his throat ceaselessly, prompting Trump's top Russia advisor Fiona Hill to tell Grisham that Putin seemed to be trying to set off Trump's germaphobia, Grisham wrote," reported Bill Bostock. "It is well known that Trump hates germs and obsesses over hygiene. 'If you're the perpetrator of a cough or of a sneeze or any kind of thing that makes you look sick ... you get the scowl,' a former Trump official once told Politico."

As the report noted, these are standard fare tactics for Putin, who frequently tries to personally intimidate world leaders in meetings. He once brought a dog to a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was attacked by a dog a few decades ago.

Trump was frequently accused by critics of being overly subservient to Putin throughout his White House tenure, after the Russian government took steps to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and Trump's government attempted to obstruct federal investigations into the matter.


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Bob Woodward’s book reveals damning details about Josh Hawley’s role in Trump’s attempted coup: Missouri newspaper





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Sen. Josh Hawley's hometown newspaper bashed the Missouri Republican for encouraging and supporting an attempted coup to keep Donald Trump in the White House.

The Kansas City Star editorial board lists all the Trump administration officials and others who pushed back against baseless claims of election fraud, as described in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's book, "Peril," but noted that Hawley continued to side with the defeated president.

"You know who never caved to reality, or ever tried to protect the republic instead of his Republican self?" the board writes. "Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, that's who. Yes, we knew that, but 'Peril' reminds any who might have forgotten that in putting his ambition ahead of all else, Hawley was a standout both before and during the attempted coup."

The book's authors say as much.

"'The risk became real,' the book says, 'when Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, a Yale-law educated freshman and former Supreme Court law clerk for Chief Justice John Roberts, announced on Dec. 30 that he would object to the Electoral College certification on Jan. 6, becoming the first senator to do so,'" the board writes

Hawley stood by himself in the hours after Trump supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol intended the stop or delay the certification of Joe Biden's election win, as both the Star reported at the time and "Peril" showed months later, and the newspaper noted with disdain that the senator told colleagues Roy Blunt and Ted Cruz that he would side with the insurrectionists when the floor vote came.

"Hawley played a big role in the Big Lie," the board writes. "And since so many Missourians love him for it, he may be the rare national Republican who hopes his constituents will read this book, and see how willing he was to distinguish himself."


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Hope Hicks bashed for taking 'the easy way out' of White House chaos in Stephanie Grisham's new book

Travis Gettys
October 01, 2021



Hope Hicks (Photo: Screen capture)


Donald Trump's former press secretary expressed resentment toward the ex-president's favored aide Hope Hicks in her new tell-all book about her time in the White House.

Stephanie Grisham criticized Hicks, a former Trump Organization employee who served through the 2016 campaign and for the first year of the administration, for leaving the White House for a job at Fox News until returning in March 2020 -- just as the coronavirus pandemic was beginning, according to excerpts from "I'll Take Your Questions Now" published by Politico.

"Hope had left the White House about two years earlier," Grisham wrote. "I think she had been understandably stressed out by the communications director job and didn't like the fact that she had been subpoenaed and had had to testify in the Robert Mueller investigation (during which she admitted to congressional investigators that she had, in her words, told some tiny 'white lies' on behalf of the president)."

"She was also being hounded by the paparazzi about her personal life," Grisham added. "She had left for a sabbatical at Fox, where she had a great title and reportedly made close to $2 million."

Grisham seemed annoyed that Hicks had retained her status despite leaving, and she indicated other staffers shared her opinion.

"I can't pretend that her presence didn't irritate me," Grisham wrote. "In my eyes and the eyes of others who had stayed to deal with all of the craziness, Hope had taken the easy way out. We all would have loved to take a cushy job somewhere else for two years so that we would be begged to come back to the White House to 'save' the administration."

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Stephanie Grisham describes the Trump White House as 'a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks'

https://www.yahoo.com/news/stephanie-grisham-describes-trump-white-135052969.html

 

Ex-Trump aide says Jared Kushner had 'absolutely no shame' exerting his power in the White House

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-trump-aide-says-jared-224204895.html

 

Trump 'turncoat' Stephanie Grisham burned a lot of bridges

Tom Boggioni
October 03, 2021



White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham on Fox Business (screengrab)
In his column for the Guardian, political observer Martin Pengelly claimed that former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham likely has a wealth of stories about the inner workings of Donald Trump's presidency -- more than most -- but she has burned so many bridges with the press during her tenure they may never get the attention they deserve.

Grisham, who will appear on "Good Morning, America" on Monday morning to promote her book, "I'll Take Your Questions Now," will reportedly "break her silence" under questioning and columnist Pengelly suggested that what she has to say should be listened to because she has less to lose than other members of Trump's inner circle who are seeking cable news analyst slots that she will likely never be offered.

"Grisham is not the first insider to break omertà on the Trumps, who rose from running a New York real estate empire to occupying the White House, but she may well be the politico who got closest of all," the Guardian columnist wrote before adding, "But Grisham seems to have burned bridges with the mainstream media as well as her political party. Though the Washington Post and New York Times published detailed reports on her book, she seems unlikely to be welcomed into the fold as columnist or TV pundit."

As Pengelly notes, Grisham has come under withering criticism for not coming forward earlier -- choosing to stay on at the White House until after the Jan 6th insurrection which she claimed at the time was the last straw after working with the Trump family.

According to Eric Boehlert, founder of PressRun, a newsletter that analyses the media, Grisham is "....a legit inside source who had a position the whole time. So I think there's a feeling like she was in the room. It's not like hearsay."

However, he notes, she is facing being dismissed for holding back in ways that, for example, Trump security adviser John Bolton -- a frequent cable TV guest -- and other Trump insiders were not after they released insider books.

According to Boehlert, "...she's sitting in meetings for years, writing notes to herself at night about how the president of the United States is a danger to the world and the danger to the country. If you're gonna blow the whistle, have the courage to be a whistleblower. Don't do it after everything is safe and he's out of office."

He added, "She had this perk job, she had access to the most elite circles on the planet. And she knew it was all wrong, and she knew it was dangerous. And now she's cashing in on a book after Trump is in Mar-a-Lago. It's not exactly a profile in courage."

According to Pengelly, "As far as Trumpworld is concerned, Grisham's chief crime may be to have betrayed her access, as chief of staff to Melania and press secretary to Donald, to some of the family's most intimate moments."

He then added that Grisham may hope all will be forgiven within the passage of time if she wants to join the pundit circuit.

"Grisham now lives in Kansas, away from the Washington hullabaloo. Should she ever wish to dive back in, she may hope DC society at large responds as one White House predecessor did to her book," he wrote before quoting former White House press secretary Joe Lockhart saying of her book: "I don't care. Do you?"

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Trump privately called French President Emmanuel Macron 'a wuss guy' and '120 pounds of fury,' book says

Eliza Relman
Fri, October 1, 2021, 1:14 PM·2 min read
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France's President Emmanuel Macron gestures during the meeting with President Donald Trump, ahead of the NATO summit in Watford, in London, Britain, December 3, 2019. Ludovic Marin/Reuters

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• Ex-Trump aide Stephanie Grisham wrote in her forthcoming memoir that Trump disparaged Macron.
  
  
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Former President Donald Trump privately disparaged French President Emmanuel Macron, calling the European leader "a wuss guy," according to Trump's former top aide Stephanie Grisham.

"He's a wuss guy. He's all of a hundred twenty pounds of fury," Trump said, according to The Guardian's reporting on Grisham's forthcoming book, "I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw in the Trump White House."

Trump and Macron had a tense relationship during Trump's time in office. In 2019, the French leader said the NATO alliance was experiencing a "brain death" and criticized Trump's decision to pull US troops from Syria without first notifying NATO. Trump called Macron's comments "a very, very nasty statement" and criticized the state of the French economy.

Grisham, who served in a series of high-level White House roles, wrote that British prime minister Boris Johnson was "one of the few European leaders Trump seemed to tolerate." She recalled the two engaged in conversations about Australia's wild animals and gallbladder surgery during meetings at the 2019 G7 summit in Biarritz, France.

Trump has condemned Grisham and her book, claiming his former press secretary and communications director wrote "bad and untrue things" about his administration because she's "very angry and bitter" over her split from former Trump aide Max Miller.

"Stephanie didn't have what it takes and that was obvious from the beginning," Trump told The New York Times in a statement earlier this week. "She had big problems and we felt that she should work out those problems for herself."

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-privately-called-french-president-191407314.html