The man who would never shut up
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Nobody knows Donald Trump better than Michael Cohen, and it shows. From a Jane Mayer piece published just before the election:
Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney, told me, “He will not concede. Never, ever, ever.” He went on, “I believe he’s going to challenge the validity of the vote in each and every state he loses—claiming ballot fraud, seeking to undermine the process and invalidate it.” Cohen thinks that the recent rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court was motivated in part by Trump’s hope that a majority of Justices would take his side in a disputed election. . .
Cohen is so certain that Trump will lose that he recently placed a ten-thousand-dollar bet on it. “He’ll blame everyone except for himself,” Cohen said. “Every day, he’ll rant and rave and yell and scream about how they stole the Presidency from him. He’ll say he won by millions and millions of ballots, and they cheated with votes from dead people and people who weren’t born yet. He’ll tell all sorts of lies and activate his militias. It’s going to be a pathetic show. But, by stacking the Supreme Court, he’ll think he can get an injunction. Trump repeats his lies over and over with the belief that the more he tells them the more people will believe them. We all wish he’d just shut up, but the problem is he won’t.”
On the other hand, the most shocking thing about all this is how utterly unsurprising Trump’s post-election behavior has been to anyone who has been paying the slightest attention to him for the past four years — and yet 74.2 million people voted for him.
I confess to waiting with rapt and morbid fascination for Trump’s twitter explosions after today’s Electoral College vote is announced.
I’m also curious as to whether the sudden outburst of faithless electors in 2016 — ten total, eight defecting from Clinton and two from Trump — will continue. Prior to 2016 we hadn’t had more than one faithless elector in a presidential election in more than a century.
And the Hoarse Whisperer makes a point well worth considering: