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Seth Abramson tweeting this morning about Fire and Fury:
A core truth we've learned from the Wolff book that many are overlooking: the fact that Trump didn't want or expect to be president means he didn't want or intend to help ANY of those he claimed to want to help, and instead intended to leave them with Clinton as their president.
Fundamentally, one CANNOT run for President of the United States without wanting or intending to win unless you're 100% fine with your opponent becoming president and governing those you've publicly said she must never govern. Trump sold out his base to get his own TV network.
FIRE AND FURY ends the illusion that Trump cared about those he claimed to care about during the campaign. You can say that Bannon cares about them—you can say that folks like John Kelly do care about the country—but you CANNOT say Trump cares about the country OR "his base."
We can say that Trump doesn't care about the country—and that FIRE AND FURY finally PROVES it—because Trump was not only OK with someone who he said was unfit to serve being president, he PREFERRED that outcome to him having to do the job instead of getting his own TV network.
We have AMPLE evidence Trump tried to lose the election and abandon his "base." Remember that $1 billion he promised to spend to win? Instead he spent almost nothing—preferring to hoard his gold in anticipation of a TV network rather than lose any real coin to help his "base."
Wolff establishes that Trump and his team wanted it to be a close election in Hillary's favor so they could all go on to bigger and better things than public service. He establishes, too, that Trump had no political beliefs—no commitment to any "base"—besides getting richer.
So what emerges from FIRE AND FURY is that the entire Trump campaign was a scam and the entire Trump presidency an unhappy accident that no one in Trumpworld was prepared for or even remotely interested in. There's no sense that Trump wanted to help ANYONE or advance ANY idea.
- The one thing that throws a wrench in this for me are those final few days of the election where that dude was flying all over the place doing rallies in themathinc
- waning seconds of the election. I just don't see this low-energy egomaniac doing that if he actually wanted to lose. All the other signs point that way though.mathinc
- Not nearly as complex as you say, this is the reason he became President, https://m.youtube.co…robotron3k
- I already knew he didnt want this life. I said many times before the election, he only ran for the adoration, not the responsibility.CygnusZero4
- Robo, I don't think you read well. No one is talking about anything being complex. And it's you mouth breathers who believe "this is the reason he became Pres"mathinc
- Reason he won: He motivated dumb morons such as yourself, and Hillary couldn't motivate a fly to land on shit. Simple.mathinc
- Does the world really need that book as proof he is scamming his followers and the US? I mean Trump Steaks from Sharper Image. C'mon. LOLsofakingback
- Trump is a disrupter for sure and I think it's fitting a conservative governs through the entirety of the millennials transition into middle age.robotron3k
- Well he’s not a conservative, nor does he govern. You got duped like all trump fucktard supporters, and you know it.monospaced