It is the newspaper The Guardian that has obtained a preview of the book “The Big Lie”, signed by the political reporter Jonathan Lemire in Politico.
The book addresses the lies of US President Donald Trump about the 2020 presidential election.
Trump lost to Joe Biden, but claimed both on election day and in the time after he had won and that the election had been stolen.
In a covert audio recording, published this week, Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon is heard saying that the ex-president had planned to declare victory while the vote count was still going on, according to The Guardian.
Things Bannon is said to have said behind closed doors about his former boss is also a topic in Lemire’s book, the newspaper writes.
“Trump was willing to say anything, he would have lied about anything to win the moment, to win any transaction he was involved in at the time,” Bannon is quoted as saying by an unnamed employee. in the White House Lemaire has interviewed.
Recording reveals shocking plan
This despite the fact that Bannon in 2018 stated to ABC News that Trump did not lie.
– Not as far as I know, no, he answered questions from White House correspondent Jonathan Karl if it was the case that the president had never lied.
During his time as president, Trump was often accused of lying. according to Washington Post’s fact checker he served a total of 30,000 lies and false statements during the four-year period.
Chaotic
“Even for Bannon, Trump was something special. The chief strategist told me that Trump “was not looking to win the overall news coverage, but to win the news moment or second,” Lemaire wrote, according to The Guardian.
This behavior created a chaotic workday for the apparatus around the president, we must believe the book.
“Complete campaign proposals had to be written on the fly, political plans had to be deconstructed, advisers had to mobilize immediately in line with the thoughts that flowed through Trump’s head at any given time, to defend his record, outmaneuver a journalist or change TV graphics on CNN.” Lemaire.
