Trump destroys what he touches. They lose their soul. Reminds me of Steven King's movie ‘The Stand’

34/ He had one card left to play, and it was the same one he had tried to play in Summer 2016.

Not foreign policy—*that* had been based on attracting illegal foreign election assistance, which was now gone—and not domestic policy, where Trump was barely even a Republican at all.

21/ When Hicks describes a crisis situation in Trump’s camp in early-/mid-October 2016, that was the crisis. They believed they would lose the election, but *also* believed Trump was going to lose what he really cared about, and his actual reason for entering politics: his brand.

14/ What people miss about the dossier—largely because no one really read it—is that it was actually all about Trump using Cohen and Manafort to maintain good relations with the Kremlin and to advance his interest in real estate deals the Kremlin was dangling.

All that was true.

5/ That’s also why, as the NYT reports, the Trump family responded approvingly to an offer by the Saudi and Emirati governments—made at Trump Tower in August 2016—to illegally aid Trump’s campaign with the aid of Israeli intel experts.

Those were nations Trump did business with.

4/ Because he didn’t believe he’d win in 2016, Trump crafted a foreign policy agenda that had nothing to do with American interests; it was focused on his business interests. That’s why he had Cohen *negotiating a real estate deal with the Kremlin* throughout the election season.

2/ There were many articles just before the 2016 election and just after it confirming that Trump ran in 2016 to elevate the only thing he really cares about—his brand. Of course he was *trying* to win and *sort of* even wanted to win, but mainly the run was to raise his profile.

1/ I’ve been covering Donald Trump more or less full-time since the day he announced his presidential candidacy in 2015, so there are things I remember as part of my job that many who follow politics more casually don’t and wouldn’t.

One is that Trump believed he’d lose in 2016.

(THREAD) This is a brief thread from a NYT-bestselling Trump biographer on what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle.

Please RETWEET.

When you comment on a post I've made if you have a profile picture...I go to your profile...and get a closer take on what you look like, and think about what you might sound like. I like to get that kind of connection when it's available.

At any rate, I'm damn glad to be in this…

Katie's Sidebar:

Take a moment and consider the below testimony and evidence.

Donald Trump, while in the OVAL OFFICE, is signing checks (drawn on his personal checking account) intended to reimburse Michael Cohen for the hush money payment Cohen made to adult film star,…

McConney then testifies to the jury about a April 13, 2017 email and attached invoice from Michael Cohen to Allen Weisselberg, which Weisselberg forwards minutes later to McConney without comment or subject.

McConney then forwards it to Tarasoff the same day with only the words…

COLANGELO: When you switched to DJT from Trust what did that mean?
MCCONNEY: We had to get it to the White House to get signed… “A whole new process for us,” Mcconney said.

COLANGELO: Mr. Trump was the only signatory on checks cut from the DJT account, is that correct?…

Ex-Trump Org. controller Jeff McConney says that one of the repayment checks to Michael Cohen had gotten lost while being sent between the Trump Org. and the White House for Trump's signature.

Checks had to be sent from the company to the White House for Trump to sign each of…

Can I count on you?

P.S. As a social scientist, I will say this: When the most frequent response to an intentionally baiting post, is “Let’s fight in the Octagon!” lol…that’s what you’re wanting to see. That’s the kind of feedback that lets you know they are planning for “mortal combat” and not…