The Daily Beast reports that Mark Meadows really truly thought TFG would love his new book:
In the weeks leading up to the rollout for his soon-to-be-released memoir about serving then-President Trump, the former GOP congressman and ex-White House chief of staff was privately telling others how much Trump would enjoy the book, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meadows, who remained a particularly sycophantic Trump loyalist and adviser well into Trump’s post-presidency, was counting on his former boss, as well as other MAGA notables, to enthusiastically promote and endorse the book to help juice sales.
“He thought Trump was going to love it,” one of these sources attested.
The story’s title says otherwise: Donald Trump Thought Mark Meadows’ Book Was ‘Fucking Stupid’
Seems Meadows didn’t realize his attempt to show his boss as bound and determined to keep going after a “false positive” actually showed him bound and determined to cover up his Covid illness:
The former top Trump staffer wrote that the president tested positive for COVID-19 shortly before his October 2020 debate with Joe Biden, and then nonetheless went ahead with an appearance on the debate stage because Trump interpreted a subsequent negative test to be correct rather than his initial positive one. . . .
But in his efforts to write a hit book, Meadows apparently failed to fully grasp that what he confessed to amounted to a massive cover-up, led by Trump and himself, that needlessly endangered the lives of staff, family, military families, and various guests of the White House, as well as now-President Joe Biden. Whether Meadows realized it or not, it’s an incredible story.
Meadows may not have realized it, but Trump sure did.
According to two sources with knowledge of the matter, and another person close to Trump, the ex-president has spent an inordinate amount of the past few days privately railing against Meadows, the revelation in the memoir, and, of course, the extensive media coverage of the matter.
Trump has always tried to be a master of his image, but this revelation hurts more than his image, and he knows it. This is clear and convincing evidence that he knew he was positive for Covid despite that second (and less accurate) negative test, and that he knew exactly what he was doing when he concealed it and essentially deliberately exposed his opponent to a deadly disease. (I say “essentially” only because we haven’t proved that was his intent, but his arrival at the debate too late for a test looks more and more to have been deliberately arranged.)
The source close to the ex-president said that, at one point in the past few days, Trump bemoaned that Meadows had been so—in Trump’s succinct phrasing—“fucking stupid” with his book.
Meadows — who been angling to be TFG’s campaign manager for the presumed 2024 run — now better hope his former boss doesn’t manage to get back in the White House. Trump has made it clear he plans to use a second term to get revenge on anyone and everyone who’s ever pissed him off, and Meadows has just made him overflow his golden toilet.