MSNBC’s Steve Benen writes that former President Donald Trump’s orbit is diminishing. Benson noted a report from the New York Times that says, “Many of his longtime employees are gone.” And it’s not too surprising that the twice-impeached one-term president is not well received lately since he has continued to insist that he won the election that he lost to Joe Biden over seven months ago.
“Many of his longtime employees are gone,” the New York Times reports. So are most of the family members who once worked there with him and some of the fixtures of the place, like his former lawyer Michael D. Cohen, who have since turned on him. Mr. Trump works there, mostly alone, with two assistants and a few body men. His political operation has also dwindled to a ragtag team of former advisers who are still on his payroll, reminiscent of the bare-bones cast of characters that helped lift a political neophyte to his unlikely victory in 2016. Most of them go days or weeks without interacting with Mr. Trump in person.”
Benson writes that team Trump is “short on team members.”
‘The article added that some Trump associates joke that “the most senior adviser to the former leader of the free world is Christina Bobb, a correspondent with the far-right, eternally pro-Trump One America News Network, whom he consults regularly for information about the Arizona election audit,’ Benson writers.
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“It’s an open question as to why the former president is isolated,” the report continues. “Indeed, after raising hundreds of millions of dollars in the wake of his defeat, Trump should have the resources necessary to assemble an impressive crew. At least for now, that hasn’t happened.”
“On the one hand, we see a former president, who had to shut down his blog because so few people were reading it, standing “mostly alone,” overseeing a “ragtag” political operation,” the report states. “He’s unpopular; he’s facing multiple investigations; and he’s been reduced to muttering absurdities about being “reinstated” to power based on bonkers conspiracy theories and an ignorance about American civics. The phrase “how the mighty have fallen” keeps coming to mind.”
“On the other hand, we see that same former president leading a major political party, wielding considerable power over the GOP’s direction and priorities, and preparing for a possible third national campaign,” the report adds.
Remarkably, a failed blogger is the leader of the Republican Party now. They’re still sticking with the guy that cost them the House, the Senate, and the White House.
You can read the full report here.
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