Trashed

By Baxter

For some light bedtime reading last night, we cats perused the excerpt in New York magazine from Michael Wolff's forthcoming book, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency. Big mistake! Anything Trumpy is nightmare-inspiring, but even worse, the section New York published was all about "His Longest, Dumbest Day" — the attack on the Capitol.

According to Wolff, by January 6 the White House had been stripped bare of anyone with even a smidgen of competence. Most staffers were either hiding upstairs (where Trump never went) or were already gone, looking for jobs. And so the remaining Clown Car was clownier than ever. Mark Meadows, Jason Miller, some dude named Boris Epshteyn (?) — these were the lamebrains who were supposed to keep Benedict Donald from wreaking catastrophe. The book says they weren't sure what the day would bring, but that sounds like a cover story.

(And in case you're wondering, Rudy Giuliani comes off even nuttier than ever. Thank goodness his law license has been suspended in two places now, because the guy is a menace to society.)

Anyway, Wolff avers that by the end of the day, Trump was at sixes and sevens. "I don't know what to do here...This looks terrible. This is really bad. Who are these people? These aren't our people, these idiots with these outfits." Mind you, he'd already made that late-afternoon video addressing those very idiots, telling them he loved them.

So, color us skeptical. Besides, we shouldn't be finding this stuff out from anonymously sourced tell-all books. What we need is that damn 9/11-style commission to get to the bottom of everything. Who held off the National Guard, abandoning the cops and Capitol Police to hours of hand-to-hand combat? That's just one of a hundred questions that need to be answered while the Republicans try to whitewash the whole thing.

If you feel like forking over 20 bucks for Wolff's book, knock yourself out. We'll wait for the Select Committee hearings. In the meantime, here are photos by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown of just some of the damage the Trumpsters did to one of America's most sacred buildings. We cats HISS.