Friday, July 17, 2026

Mad As A Hatter

Where’d he get that idea?
Jonathan Swan says that when President Trump returned to office, he pressured the intelligence community to produce some kind of evidence proving that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Trump’s Thursday night address was the best they could do.

Jonathan Swan: One way of looking at last night is as the culmination of an almost six-year effort. We have some reporting in the book that, in early 2021, Trump was telling people privately that he thought he could be reinstated as president that summer and was being encouraged by some people around him that this was a possibility.

When he came back into power this term, he started to put pretty intense pressure on the intelligence community to come up with some kind of evidence that could prove the 2020 election was stolen.

Last night, one way of looking at it is that this is the best they can do. Essentially, this was their best effort to prove that case. Of course, they didn’t. But that’s the genesis of last night.
My favorite bit is that, in the summer of 2021, he thought he could be reinstated. Trump is not “undermining faith in elections” in some wily Machiavellian scheme. He’s screaming yellow bonkers.  He has no idea how this works, and no capacity for facing reality.

He’s not a sub genius. He’s a narcissistic moron.
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