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I'm kinda surprised no one has started this topic yet, although it is an evolving story with new revelations being dropped almost every day.
Three books are set to be published soon: "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff; "Frankly, We Did Win This Election" by Michael Bender; and "I Alone Can Fix" by Philip Rucker and Carol Leaning.
Some of the stories in these books detail things we've only heard parts of before. Some are just disturbing; some of them are stunning.
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This is bizarre for a number of reasons, the least of which is that Trump had to be reminded of who was on what side during WWII. More to the point, we all know Trump is transactional, but to him Nazi Germany was about economics, not about mass murder and world domination.
The fact that Kelly has to remind Trump that you can't ever say anything good about Hitler...just unbelievable.
Then there was Trump calling for the execution of whoever leaked that Trump had hidden in a bunker during a nearby George Floyd protest.
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And also Trump blowing a fuse when Fox called Arizona on election night.
And Trump explaining how protesters should be met with extreme violence.
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Or that Gen. Milley formed a plan with the other Joint Chiefs just in case Trump was mad enough to attempt a coup.
There are other items, like Trump mobilizing an effort to get states to reverse their results, but these should be enough to scare the pants off of anybody.
The publishers are, of course, revealing these things piecemeal in order to pique interest in the books. So more details might still be coming.
Three books are set to be published soon: "Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff; "Frankly, We Did Win This Election" by Michael Bender; and "I Alone Can Fix" by Philip Rucker and Carol Leaning.
Some of the stories in these books detail things we've only heard parts of before. Some are just disturbing; some of them are stunning.
On a visit to Europe to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, Donald Trump insisted to his then chief of staff, John Kelly: “Well, Hitler did a lot of good things.”...
Bender reports that Trump made the remark during an impromptu history lesson in which Kelly “reminded the president which countries were on which side during the conflict” and “connected the dots from the first world war to the second world war and all of Hitler’s atrocities”.
...Bender says unnamed sources reported that Kelly “told the president that he was wrong, but Trump was undeterred”, emphasizing German economic recovery under Hitler during the 1930s.
“Kelly pushed back again,” Bender writes, “and argued that the German people would have been better off poor than subjected to the Nazi genocide.”
Bender adds that Kelly told Trump that even if his claim about the German economy under the Nazis after 1933 were true, “you cannot ever say anything supportive of Adolf Hitler. You just can’t.”

Trump told chief of staff Hitler ‘did a lot of good things’, book says
Remark shocked John Kelly, author Michael Bender reports, detailing former president’s ‘stunning disregard for history’
This is bizarre for a number of reasons, the least of which is that Trump had to be reminded of who was on what side during WWII. More to the point, we all know Trump is transactional, but to him Nazi Germany was about economics, not about mass murder and world domination.
The fact that Kelly has to remind Trump that you can't ever say anything good about Hitler...just unbelievable.
Then there was Trump calling for the execution of whoever leaked that Trump had hidden in a bunker during a nearby George Floyd protest.
Trump, in the days following his time in the bunker, held a tense meeting with top military, law enforcement and West Wing advisers, in which he aired grievances over the leak.
"Trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they arrived and shouted at them to smoke out whoever had leaked it. It was the most upset some aides had ever seen the president," Bender writes.
"'Whoever did that, they should be charged with treason!' Trump yelled. 'They should be executed!'" the book reads.
Then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows "repeatedly tried to calm the president as startled aides avoided eye contact," Bender writes...

Trump said whoever 'leaked' info on his White House bunker stay should be 'executed,' new book claims
Then-President Donald Trump told a number of his advisers in 2020 that whoever leaked information about his stay in the White House bunker in May of that year had committed treason and should be executed for sharing details about the episode with members of the press, according to excerpts of a...

And also Trump blowing a fuse when Fox called Arizona on election night.
Co-anchor Martha MacCallum said that indeed Fox had called Arizona, a hotly contested battleground state with 11 electoral college votes.
Co-anchor Bret Baier chimed in. “Time out,” he said. “This is a big development. Fox News’s decision desk is calling Arizona for Joe Biden.” Baier added, “Biden picking up Arizona changes the math.”
Trump, who had been watching Fox, was livid. He could not fathom that the conservative news network he had long considered an extension of his campaign was the first news organization to call Arizona for Biden. This was a betrayal.
“What the f--- is Fox doing?” Trump screamed. Then he barked orders to Kushner: “Call Rupert! Call James and Lachlan!” And to Jason Miller: “Get Sammon. Get Hemmer. They’ve got to reverse this.”...
Giuliani pushed the president to forget about the Arizona call and just say he won — to step into the East Room and deliver a victory speech. Never mind that Meadows had earlier snapped at Giuliani and said the president couldn’t just declare himself the winner.
“Just go declare victory right now,” Giuliani told Trump. “You’ve got to go declare victory now.”
And Trump explaining how protesters should be met with extreme violence.
"That's how you're supposed to handle these people," Trump told his top law enforcement and military officials, according to Bender. "Crack their skulls!"
Trump also told his team that he wanted the military to go in and "beat the f--k out" of the civil rights protesters, Bender writes.
"Just shoot them," Trump said on multiple occasions inside the Oval Office, according to the excerpts.
When Milley and then-Attorney General William Barr would push back, Trump toned it down, but only slightly, Bender adds.
"Well, shoot them in the leg—or maybe the foot," Trump said. "But be hard on them!"

Top US general rejected Trump suggestions military should 'crack skulls' during protests last year, new book claims | CNN Politics
The top US general repeatedly pushed back on then-President Donald Trump's argument that the military should intervene violently in order to quell the civil unrest that erupted around the country last year. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley often found he was the lone voice of opposition to...
Or that Gen. Milley formed a plan with the other Joint Chiefs just in case Trump was mad enough to attempt a coup.
The top brass was so disturbed by Trump's rhetoric casting doubt on the legitimacy of the election before it was held that the leaders discussed contingency plans for how to thwart any illegal power grabs by the president, including how and when to resign in protest over his actions.
"They may try, but they're not going to f****** succeed," Milley told his officers, according to Leonnig and Rucker. "You can't do this without the military. You can't do this without the CIA and the FBI. We're the guys with the guns."
The alarm only increased after the election, when Trump and his allies contested the results and called on his supporters to oppose the legitimacy of the electoral process, often implying violence may be necessary.
"This is a Reichstag moment," Milley told his deputies in the days before Jan. 6, a reference to the 1933 burning of the German parliament that helped usher in the Nazi regime in Germany, Leonnig and Rucker write. "The gospel of the Führer."
'Reichstag moment': Joint Chiefs chairman feared Trump was laying groundwork for coup
Gen. Mark Milley feared Trump might take unconstitutional actions after losing the election, according to the new book "I Alone Can Fix It."
www.usatoday.com
There are other items, like Trump mobilizing an effort to get states to reverse their results, but these should be enough to scare the pants off of anybody.
The publishers are, of course, revealing these things piecemeal in order to pique interest in the books. So more details might still be coming.