Chillicothe
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True that.
Yes, we all hope folks recognize the quality of Don Trump's character and competency.
But still, any one of us here can read numerous posts lauding him as a great president, an admirable human being, a worthy hero. I've long called those posters," T.D.S".....Trump Devoted Sycophants.
But the point ---and the value ---of these books is that they will be embedded in the historical record. Just like, say, a re-telling of a conversation by Nicholas Hay between Abe Lincoln and, say, Edwin Stanton, his Secretary of War, or some other personage.
They become part of the matrix of history. And add nuance, understanding, and transparency to matters that we common citizens normally have no access to....but for an account by witnesses or participants.
And so such will be this wave of books on Don Trump's presidency.
In fact, to that point, today's Politico had an interesting treatment on this oh-so-current development of books about Trump hitting the news and the shelves.
You can read the whole enchilada here: Trump rages over post-presidential books he did interviews for
But, as an assist, here is a taster I pulled from the long Politico article:
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"Trump rages over post-presidential books he did interviews for"
The avalanche of coming books has caused recriminations. And there is anxiety about what’s to come.
07/15/2021 04:30 AM EDT
"He knew it was coming. But former President Donald Trump still was not pleased.
Fear is mounting, about the tea-spilling to come. In particular, Trump officials are anxiously awaiting the books set to be published by actual colleagues, chief among them counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner, who plan to write their own accounts of the Trump presidency.
“I think it’s fraught right now as to who is telling the truth,” said a Trump adviser. “They’re all trying to go back in time and curate their own images.”
Privately, former administration officials and top campaign aides have shared concerns about Conway’s upcoming tell-all in particular. The ex-president’s loyal former counselor is expected to give a hold-no-punches account of her time in the White House and those she worked alongside. Conway herself sat down with Trump for her book at Mar-a-Lago.
According to an adviser, Trump, who is sensitive to how history will remember him, “said that I think if you can improve the book 3, 5, 10 percent [by participating], that matters.” But the publications have, instead, further muddied his reemergence on the political scene. After months of keeping a relatively low profile, the former president has hit the trail and done news interviews with friendly outlets in which he not only continued to falsely claim the election was stolen from him, but praised the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol at his encouragement on Jan. 6.
Those who know Trump suspect that he is content to be at the center of conversation, no matter how unflattering the conversation may be, under the mantra that all press is good press.
“He thinks that, ‘Oh, they’re talking about me, me, me,’” said an adviser.
, Trump publicly bristled at another excerpt from Bender’s book, in which it was reported that he and former Vice President Mike Pence got into a heated argument over the hiring of political adviser Corey Lewandowski. Bender stood by his reporting, which he said came from multiple sources.
As the excerpts and subsequent recriminations have piled up, people in Trump’s inner circle have criticized Trump’s decision to cooperate with the book authors. Some recalled Trump giving access to Wolff and veteran reporter Bob Woodward during his time as president, only to then erupt over the material that they ended up publishing.
“I understand the rationale, but it was a strategic mistake to sit down with these folks — you’re giving them credibility. It’s hard to say, ‘I sat down with them and they got it wrong.’ So they’ve created a sense of credibility that makes it harder to critique,” said Sean Spicer, Trump’s former press secretary…”
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