We’ve got a new book about Donald Trump out, this one by Jonathan Karl, and it’s certainly got some juicy bits to it.  In a summary in The Atlantic, Karl writes about a conversation he had with former Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon when Trump’s 2024 announcement site of Waco, Texas was announced.

Waco, of course, was the site of the April 19, 1993 fire at a cult compound which anti-government forces blame on federal agents attempting to serve warrants on David Koresh and other cult leaders.  Two years later, Timothy McVeigh chose the same date to bomb the federal building in Oklahoma City.  In far-right anti-government circles, Waco means something.

And it’s something Steve Bannon understood.  “We’re the Trump Davidians,” Bannon told Karl with a chuckle when Karl inquired about the choice of site for the 2024 campaign introduction.  Trump’s 2020 campaign kick-off speech was on June 19th–Juneteenth–in Tulsa, the site of the worst massacre of Black citizens in US history.  Trump’s campaign kickoff sites have special meaning.

Another fun tidbit:  when Trump attorney Todd Blanche told his client his Manhattan illicit affair hush-money would be held in March 2024, Trump blew up:  “That’s in the middle of the primaries!” Trump yelled. “If I lose the presidency, you are going to be the reason!  You little fucker!  You are going to cost me the presidency!”  Trump camp officials deny the account:  “President Trump and Mr. Blanche are united in fighting these unlawful witch-hunts and the weaponization of the justice system.”