This isn’t about Jan. 6…..
This IS about some other Bull Shit sold to Trump that he came to believe…
Despite losing the 2020 election, former President Donald Trump came to believe a fringe conspiracy theory that he could be reinstated long after leaving office and before the next election, a new book by ABC’s “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl reveals.
Trump has long publicly aired his grievances over the last presidential election, frequently repeating false claims that it was “stolen.” But as Karl reports in his new book, “Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party,”Trump became fixated on a far-right theory that he could actually replace President Joe Biden.
The idea was not based in law and was clearly unconstitutional, but it was supported by some of Trump’s most devout followers, MyPillow CEO Michael Lindell chief among them.
Lindell had claimed that Trump would be able to move back into the White House on Aug. 13, 2021. He promised to reveal terabytes of “evidence” during a three-day symposium he hosted in South Dakota in the lead-up to that deadline. He said the “evidence” would prove mass vote-flipping executed by Chinese hackers.
The evidence, however, did not exist. But Trump was enthralled…..
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“I’m not going to explain it to you, Jonathan, because you wouldn’t — you wouldn’t either understand it or write it,” Trump said, according to audio of the call.
Karl learned while reporting for his new book that Trump was talking in private a lot about the baseless notion of being reinstated — so much so that some of his advisers were concerned he actually believed he could somehow force Biden out of the White House before the next election.
Former Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, who in October pleaded guilty in the Georgia election subversion case for making false statements about election fraud, publicly refuted the idea in May 2021.
She tweeted: “The Constitution has only one process for removal of a sitting president: impeachment and conviction. No, President Trump is not going to be ‘reinstated.’….
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Another reason to question Donald Trump’as grip on reality…..