In this selection from their new book, “Sinking in the Swamp,” Daily Beast reporters Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng lay bare Trump's petty, relentless rants about the media.
There are too many parts of the Daily Beast excerpt from “Sinking In The Swamp” to quote in order do justice to the proof that Trump is a disgusting excuse for a human being and a exemplar the unrepentant misogynist let alone being totally qualified to be the leader of the free world. I’ll present a few but if you can stand it, read the entire article. Thankfully the Daily Beast deigned not to put this in the for a fee members only section so you can read it yourself.
That portions about Trump’s love/hate relationship with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski were new to me.
He was giving a personal tour of his beloved “war room” to none other than... his dear pals Joe and Mika.
Joe and Mika's visit to the war room that day, in fact, was an attempt at a peace summit, one brokered by Jared Kushner, who wanted his dad-in-law and the MSNBC duo to forge a détente after months of a cold silence and hurt feelings. When the cable-news couple met with Trump at the Tower that day, the GOP nominee made his displeasure with them—for comparing his rhetoric and policy prescriptions to fascist Germany, and so forth—known in a private tête-à-tête. Afterwards, however, he couldn't resist showing off his treasured war room to his one-time buddies Joe and Mika. The moment the three of them entered the war room together, there was a brief moment of suspended animation, when a small cluster of campaign staffers noticeably had jaws dropped and laughter suppressed, while thinking, "Why the hell did Trump bring them here, he shit-talks them all the time!"
Here’s a bit about his relationship with Katy Tur who wrote “Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History:”
When Trump resumed demagoguing his fake immigrant crime statistics and Tur pushed back, Trump told her she was being a “very naive person.” When she seemed to lose her train of thought for a moment, a visibly annoyed Trump yapped, “Come on, try getting it out, try getting it out. I mean, I don’t know if you’re going to put this on television, but you don’t even know what you’re talking about. Try getting it out, go ahead.”
This animosity continued well into the following year, and Trump clearly wasn’t inclined to let it go. The following December, Trump called “Little Katy” a “third-rate journalist” in the middle of a campaign rally, prompting Trump supporters to look her way and lustily boo her. During the same event, Trump lumped her in the category of media “scum.”
But there’s even more:
I like how the authors phrased their pitch for buying the book (emphasis mine):
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What with John Bolton’s book coming out, or not coming out, or whatever, it is debatable whether these revelations about Trump’s misogyny will make more of a difference in the election than proof of his engaging in a quid quo pro to benefit him in the election. This may be too much of an abstraction for low information and/or don’t give a shit voters.
In a sane world, however, demeaning women to this extent could hit literally not just close to home, but in the actual homes of many women. It would seem that if he loses just a small percent of female voters for this reason in states he barely won in 2016 he could lose based simply on the women’s vote.