White House Staffers Feared Trump Would Make Them Break The Law After Election

According to a new report from The New York Times, many White House staffers did their best to avoid Donald Trump after his election loss because they were afraid that he would ask them to do things that were illegal. This tells us so much about how Trump operated behind the scenes, and it gives us some glaring insight into his mental state following that election loss. Farron Cousins discusses this.

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This past Friday, New York times reporter Maggie Haberman, who of course was their number one reporter on things from the Trump administration. She put out an article talking about Jared and Ivanka cuz right? They've been all the talk. Both their videos were featured Thursday evening and they kind of disappeared from the spotlight. You know, basically right after the 2020 election, even before they left office, they were like, we're getting the hell outta here. And in this very lengthy article at the end, literally the last paragraph here is when Haberman finally gets to the real point. Like I don't give a crap. Uh, what Jared and Ivanka were doing are doing will do like, unless it's illegal, you know, and Kushner may have some issues there. But other than that, I don't care. I don't care that they had checked out of the white house. I don't care that, oh, they weren't paying attention.

They weren't a part of any of this. What I do care about again is this last paragraph, which I'm gonna read for you now. Um, they left that task, dealing with Trump, to the paid staff who in turn, kept waiting for the family to intervene more aggressively. Shortly after election day. Most aids tried to avoid the oval office, fearful of having to listen to Mr. Trump vent. They were also eager to avoid the worst case scenario, a directive from Mr. Trump that might have been illegal and could have ensnared them in an investigation, fade to black because that's the end of the article.

But that's the most important part of the article. Like you can't just leave on a massive cliff hang and be like, Hey, oh, by the way, everybody in the white house, wouldn't talk to Trump because they thought he was gonna make him do something illegal. No, hold the phone for a minute. That's the whole thing. Like, there's your story? Where's the follow up here? I mean really talking about burying the lead in the very last paragraph of the article aids avoided Trump because they thought he was gonna make him do illegal stuff. That's that's your headline, not Jared and Ivanka. I mean, the headline of the article literally is Jared and Ivanka without the power or the masks. And then you finally get to the meat of it at the end that, Hey, nobody wanted to be near him. Cuz they knew he was going to ask them to do illegal things.

Who are these staffers? Who, who, who were these people who are the aids? Why are they not testifying right now? Publicly in front of the, uh, January 6th committee. That's what we need to hear like, okay, hold up. Well, why would you think Donald Trump is gonna make you do something illegal? Had he in the past asked you to do illegal things. So you knew from experience. Did you just have a weird hunch that maybe he's gonna do something illegal? Cuz ah, you would only assume that this is what was going to happen. If one, you either saw him asking people to do illegal things

Or two, if in the past he had asked people to do illegal things. You don't just automatically go to, oh crap. He's probably gonna ask me to do something illegal. Like when your boss walks in, in a bad mood, whatever job you have, you don't immediately go to, oh man, he is gonna make me do something illegal today. No, that's not a normal thought. But if your boss has repeatedly in the past, asked you to do things that are probably illegal, maybe, you know, right in the fine line. And then he comes up to you and says, Hey, I gotta, I gotta request then yes, your mind would go, oh no, he's gonna ask me to do something illegal. I typically like Maggie Haman's work. I really, really do. I respect her as a journalist. This is a crap article that that doesn't do a good job of telling the real important story, a story that hopefully she will give us in a follow up because that seems to be the more important part of it.