Donald Trump cooked up a "pressure" campaign for a special election that he hoped would reinstate himself as president six whole months after Joe Biden took office, according to details purportedly from famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's book. Foreign policy reporter Laura Rozen dropped the...
  • someguy3@lemmy.world
    32·
    1 month ago

    The newest reported revelation involves Trump and a former GOP lawmaker, Mo Brooks.

    According to Rozen, “In June 2021, Six months into Biden’s term, Trump pressured Mo Brooks to call for a special election to reinstate Trump as president, according to Woodward’s new book.”

    “Brooks refused, leading to their split,” Rozen added on X Sunday.

  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
    30·
    1 month ago

    At least we finally understand where that rumor was coming from. You’d think when August came and went without Trump becoming President that would have been an obvious flaw with all the Q stuff.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 month ago

    I so hate the fact that I have to worry about any “demand” that this asshole might make or has made. What a fucked up world we live in.

  • _bcron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 month ago

    It’d be kind of sad to see how delusional he is if I didn’t know he’s a gigantic asshole

    • Masterbaexunn@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      He definitely wouldn’t notice for a while… Do you remember how long him or his team went without a press briefing??? Lmao what a bitch

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    2118·
    1 month ago

    Please stop linking Bob-waits-for-an-election-to-publish-fucking-Woodward related shit. Too little too late for it.

    I’m glad this asshole didn’t have a book deal for Watergate or we’d have found out about that during the election cycle after Nixon cheated.

    Fuck you, Bob.

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
      26·
      1 month ago

      If anything, with Trump, it’s better closer to the election. It doesn’t give people time to get comfortable with it and wash it away in their brains, and their campaign can only embarrass themselves by trying to yell “fake news” when the proof gets revealed like the COVID tests for Putin shit.

      You know who needs to be compelled to fucking release the tapes? The guy who has the audio and video of Trump ranting on his stupid show and throwing around every kind of racial epithet he can muster. That fucker needs to post that stuff NOW.

      Edit: had to find a more recent update on it, and this is all I could find: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/donald-trump-apprentice-n-word-tape-how-to-find.html

    • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Please stop linking Bob-waits-for-an-election-to-publish-fucking-Woodward related shit. Too little too late for it.

      To be fair, it’s not just Woodward. There are plenty of Trump’s former employees, associates, and friends who coincidentally only had bad things to say about Trump when they had a book that they had to promote. We possibly could have saved years of misery and maybe even succesfully removed Trump from office if even a few of these people had (a) spoken up sooner, and (b) didn’t have a financial stake in what they’re saying. One of the reasons that these revelations have had little to no real impact (or in some cases, actually boosted Trump’s popularity) is because people believe that they’re simply making the stories up to promote their book And given that 95% of these revelations come out right around the time someone has a new book to promote, I can’t blame them.

      Don’t just blame Woodward. Blame all of them.

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    1 month ago

    Fucking Woodward. We’re going to be getting these tidbits dropped all the way through the election. This guy and his antics to sell books…