In the weeks following following his humiliating loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election, disgraced former President Trump told his minions they were just not going to leave the White House, CNN reports on New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s upcoming book, Confidence Man.
“I’m just not going to leave,” Trump said, according to Haberman. “We’re never leaving. How can you leave when you won an election?” The book details this being a switch from the most immediate aftermath of the loss, in which Donald appeared to at first accept his defeat, saying “We did our best” and “I thought we had it,” but then declaring that if all options had been exhausted he would simply stay even as Biden moved in. “Why should I leave if they stole it from me?” Trump reportedly asked RNC Chair Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel in what must’ve been an entertaining exchange.
Now by the third paragraph we’re realizing this isn’t really anything new, that plenty of contemporaneous reporting – even the two days after the election, before it was called, had a Biden Campaign spokesman saying “the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.” Haberman needs some better, more outrageous shit than this coming out ahead of her book’s street date on October 4th if she wants people to drop $29 or whatever it’s going to cost for a hardcover copy.