I feel like people are underestimating the very real chance he will try something genuinely insane, even by Trump standards. https://t.co/MCI81ayZ1Y
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) December 21, 2020
President Trump has turned to a fringe group of advisers peddling increasingly dubious tactics to overturn the election results, creating a dire situation that sources say has led to new levels of uncertainty at how Trump will resist the end to his tenure https://t.co/9Cpfh3Eer2
— CNN (@CNN) December 21, 2020
NEW: With a month before @JoeBiden's inauguration, @realDonaldTrump is largely idle but increasingly out of touch with reality in a way that is causing even those loyalists to be alarmed over what could transpire during the month left in his presidency. https://t.co/G8LOyOni7d
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) December 21, 2020
"It's basically Sidney versus everybody … There is literally not one motherf—r in the president’s entire orbit — his staunchest group of supporters and allies — who doesn't think that Sidney Powell should be on that first rocket to Mars." https://t.co/fhnWOhib3d
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 21, 2020
Appointing Sidney Powell as special counsel, or to any governmental post with any authority whatsoever, would be wildly irresponsible and outright dangerous.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) December 20, 2020
New from me for @CNN #CrossExam:https://t.co/59PNRwscir
the former ceo of overstock says he was in the white house meeting with trump, sidney powell, flynn, meadows, cipollone, with giuliani and robert o’brien on the phone, where martial law and seizing voting machines etc were reportedly discussed pic.twitter.com/HyUJ5mbUIO
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) December 21, 2020
Also apparently back in Trump's ear: Steve Bannon.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) December 21, 2020
Bannon appeared on a livestream with conservative pastors last night & said: "As I strongly recommended to the President, we need a special counsel named immediately — a special prosecutor just on election fraud and voter fraud" https://t.co/PIQBGjPaTP
Stop saying Trump and his supporters "actually believe" the election was stolen from him. They support overturning *legitimate* election results. They're angry because democracy *worked,* not because it failed.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 21, 2020
(w/@AdamSerwer, @RosieGray & @RadioFreeTom)https://t.co/10qQZCHkrh pic.twitter.com/ZAJnwvKCGN
The notion that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone is working to undermine President Trump because he “wants him to lose” is a model in miniature of the kind of unmoored, conspiratorial thinking that Trump has invited into the Oval for this post-election period. https://t.co/5q7au20Sua
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) December 21, 2020
I was firmly in the camp that believed Trump's real coup died weeks ago and it's just been a big grift since then. But the reporting this weekend changed my mind — he really does think he will discover the cheat code to steal the election. https://t.co/pGPFRtwbac
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) December 21, 2020
A brief chronology:
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) December 21, 2020
Fri: Trump meets w/ Flynn, Powell, Rudy to discuss seizing voting machines
Sat: Trump talks to Tuberville about challenging election results Jan. 6
Sun: Powell returns to the WH
Mon: Trump meets w/ congressional allies pushing election challenges. https://t.co/gwIf9L3V6B
"Trump’s attacks on the rule of law by and large have failed…[But] Trump got away with a lot that was previously regarded as wrong and forbidden…Even when Trump has seemingly failed to get his way, he has still succeeded in doing enormous damage."https://t.co/VkEYWMDSTC
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 21, 2020
Trump called Charlie Kirk tonight and spoke via speakerphone to the TPUSA conference in West Palm. "The problem is we need a party that’s going to fight…we won this in a landslide, they know it, and we need backing from like the Justice Department."
— Kevin Liptak (@Kevinliptakcnn) December 21, 2020
The desire to treat the president as a bystander to his own campaign/presidency continues. If the president didn’t want her at the White House, there’s a way to deal with that. https://t.co/icb9KluBJA
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) December 21, 2020
Donald Trump threatens 30-day reign of destruction on the way out of office | Analysis https://t.co/2mjilqi9Cg pic.twitter.com/wo9OSgAtkl
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 22, 2020
🚨 🚨 Trump thinks everyone around him is weak, stupid or disloyal — and increasingly seeks comfort only in people who egg him on to overturn the election results. We cannot stress enough how unnerved officials r by the conversations unfolding inside WH.
— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) December 22, 2020
https://t.co/eM7XgEieTY
Trump loyalists harboring martial law fantasies don’t know their history https://t.co/S3EGz0f9PO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 22, 2020
Trump coup attempt: Trump leaned on 31 different state and local officials to steal the election for him. https://t.co/FllRtxdbO0
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 22, 2020
The murmur just below the surface at the Pentagon. Will @realDonaldTrump turn to the military in his fight to overturn the election?https://t.co/2vwocrI7w2
— Barbara Starr (@barbarastarrcnn) December 22, 2020
Sad! 