New York Times bestselling author of Fire and Fury and Siege completes the trilogy on the epic presidency of Donald J. Trump With Fire and Fury Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; in Siege he wrote an explosive account of a presidency under fire. In LandslideWolff closes the story of Trump's four years in office and histumultuous last months at the helm of the country, based on Wolff'sextraordinary access to White House aides and to the former presidenthimself, yielding a wealth of new information and insights about whatreally happened inside the highest office in the land, and the world.
Loeffler and Perdue back in the Senate. But what do you think about being governor? Umm well, I dont You think about how that sounds, Governor Collins. You realize, said Miller, laughing, when the president left, hes going to say that during the rally? You might want to come up with what your response is going to be, because hes saying it. Which he did, in his two-hour speech, staking his claim on Georgias political future and his unhappiness over other political concerns. Still, though he delivered his lines about Loeffler and Perdue and referenced a world in which it was possiblenot that it had happened, but with the Dems having rigged it, that this might be the resultthat he had in fact lost the election.
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But there was always the discrepancy between his scripted words and his true wordsthe logic, or illogic, which powerfully, even rapturously gripped him and which he could not shake and to which, putting political sense aside, he needed to bear witness. Indeed, he laid out in Georgia quite a real-time sense of what he and, practically speaking, he alone had come to believe, a veritable catechism of the information he had selected and absorbed to argue his case. The manic and idiotic nature of his view is perhaps the strongest argument against his cynicismhe was in the weeds of fixation and delusion.
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We won a lot of places. We won Florida. We won Ohio. Big, big. We won them big. Remember, we were going to lose Florida, they said. We were five down in Florida. We won by a lot. We were way down in Ohio, and we won by a lot. I think they say that if you win Florida and if you win Ohio in history, youve never lost an election. This has got to be a first time. But the truth is they were right, weve never lost that election. Were winning this election. And I will say, were fighting very hard for this state. When you look at all of the corruption and all of the problems having to do with this election, all I can do is campaign and then I wait for the numbers. But when the numbers come out of ceilings and come out of leather bags, you start to say, Whats going on?
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If we have courage and wisdom, I think, you know what the answers going to be because you cant let people get away with what they got away with. Think of it, with over seventy-four million votes, over, think of that, more than I got more votes than any sitting president in history. Eleven million more votes than we got in 2016. And we thought that if we could get sixty-eight million, sixty-seven million, that would be the end. All of our great, brilliant geniuses said youd win if you get sixty-seven or sixty-eight. Its over. We got seventy-four millionplus and theyre trying to convince us that we lost. We didnt lose. They found a lot of ballots, to be nice about it. And they got rid of some, too. The seventy-four, let me tell you, the seventy-four could have been even higher
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