The former president hints at a comeback, and Wolff ends on a nauseating cliffhanger.But with the release of a new book, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, these thin notions around the president’s instability are fortified for the first time, invigorating the probes surrounding the mental health of the president. Kavanaugh.īut Wolff can’t leave it there. In a lightning round, Trump slags McConnell, Mike Pence, Karl Rove, Chris Christie, Kevin McCarthy and Brett M. The book wraps with a spontaneous interview Trump gives Wolff. Here and there, in passing moments of half-clarity, it seems Trump might be deterred from inciting violence, but it doesn’t happen. The whole story plays out like a Greek tragedy because we know where it’s going - the desecration of the Capitol and U.S. Jim Jordan, Louie Gohmert, Matt Gaetz and Paul Gosar. Also, these “Star Wars” barflies: Republican Reps. At the vanguard: Powell, Giuliani and another lawyer of questionable ethics, Jenna Ellis.
Wolff represents those who stuck it out with Trump as groveling desperados, their wits dulled by the Trump treatment - oily flattery and savage cruelty. Gen William Barr acknowledged Biden’s clean victory. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner vanished Mitch McConnell, then the Senate majority leader, and Atty. In Wolff’s telling, Rupert Murdoch deliberately gave Trump the middle finger by having Fox News call Arizona early for Biden. 6.īut this down-is-up position was ultimately unsustainable for at least some Trump’s stalwarts. The scrum’s election-night competition to see who could “yes Trump” the loudest set the stage for the Big Lie and the attempted coup/insurrection of Jan. The scrum of Trump’s bootlickers features prominently in “Landslide” - concentric circles that include the plausibly OK (then chief of staff Mark Meadows, campaign spokesman Jason Miller) to the floridly not OK (MyPillow magnate Mike Lindell, Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell). Trump declared defeat unimaginable, which allowed his brain to seize on an imaginary victory. He encouraged the neofascist Proud Boys.īut somehow, according to Wolff’s sources, Trump remained convinced Joe Biden couldn’t beat him. The Republican Party put on a Spinal Tap-caliber convention starring Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend screaming.īrad Parscale, the president’s campaign manager, had what Wolff calls a “psychotic break.” He was carted away by police. He got COVID-19.Īn overhyped rally in Tulsa, Okla., was met with banks of empty seats. Trump refused to come up with a platform, admit the scope of the pandemic or wear a mask. If you want to relive it, the book covers the throes of the 2020 presidential election and the Trump campaign falling into splinters.
It’s only their incompetence, in his view, that is keeping him from his rightful role as America’s forever president. A motif of the book is how much Trump despises all his lawyers.
Worse yet, Trump insists the law should turn his scrawls into winning legal briefs and triumph over all. He’s not playing chess or even checkers he’s covering pages with Sharpie Xs and calling it tic-tac-toe. He’s just crazy, a madman in want of a straitjacket. Donald Trump, he argues, is not crazy like a fox. He’s great at picking up insider images, too, as when Bannon describes Giuliani, in his aphasic periods, as in the “mumble tank.” But his patience with carnies allows him astonishing access. Wolff is a hustler with a high tolerance for general venality, vulgar locker-room talk, and the company of armpit sources like dark-arts master Steve Bannon and lawyer Rudy Giuliani, now unlicensed in New York and Washington. But it also implies an avalanche of another sort: one that started when Trump’s psychological convulsions triggered a rolling collapse of the linchpins of the U.S.
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