Some reviews of "Tired of Winning"
"The most important thing that has been written to date about what is in front of the American people in the next presidential election" - Nicolle Wallace
“Karl delivers a read-in-one-sitting narrative every bit as riveting as the most
SIREN! The Biden Town Hall on ABC drew 2.3 million more viewers than the Trump town hall on NBC. There is nothing
@realDonaldTrump
cares about more than ratings.
FYI — Robert Mueller did not work for Obama for 8 years. He ran the FBI under George W Bush for nearly 8 years. He remained FBI Director under Obama for 4 years, confirmed to extend his 10-year term by a Senate vote of 100-0.
....care how many lives the ruin. These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama for 8 years. They won’t even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side. A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!
These photos — which were published exclusively in “Betrayal” — show the scene at the White House on election night. Look at the faces — these people did not think they were winning.
Don’t be disingenuous,
@jonkarl
!
Though I don’t possess a physical copy of the fictitious book since I’m not in the press corp, my inbox has been flooded with the false claims and excerpts from the book.
You know how this works, and yet here you are...
Cold rain, snow and lots of Trump supporters. Despite the miserable weather, there are already more people lining up outside the venue of
@realDonaldTrump
‘s rally tonight than you see at most of the events for the Democratic candidates. Some have been out here all night
Rudy Giuliani now says he won’t on the Trump impeachment defense team. “Because I gave an earlier speech [at the January 6 Trump rally], I am a witness and therefore unable to participate in court or Senate chamber,” he tells me.
“About 48 hours ago the president received a special antibody therapy directed at the coronavirus” - Dr Garabaldi, Walter Reed.
48 hours ago? Thursday morning? Before he tested positive?
This is big — Trump secretary Molly Michael told federal investigators that Trump wrote her notes - to-do lists! - on the back of documents marked classified, using the documents as if they were scrap paper, according to sources familiar with her statements.…
The truth matters. The requests for Dr. Fauci and the other members of the task force were made directly to you — multiple times. In this email, for example:
FALSE. 1) Dr Fauci has been doing media all week - appearing on PBS Newshour & NBC’s Andrea Mitchell
3 days ago. 2) not getting your desired guest does not = the WH trying to “muzzle” anyone. This narrative is tired. 3)
@jonkarl
didn’t request any other member of the task force.
Trump didn’t just lose the election.
He lost 60-plus legal challenges.
He lost in his efforts to get Republican state legislatures to undo the results
He lost the votes in Congress challenging the results
He lost his effort to get his VP to overturn the results
He lost…
This is a flagrant violation of CDC guidelines on social distancing and a move that puts reporters at risk for the purpose of turning the press corps into a prop for a so-called "press conference" where the president refuses to answer a single question.
We now know Hicks had symptoms on Wednesday night and tested positive yesterday morning. We also know she she had been with
@PressSec
.
My question for
@PressSec
: What did you know, when went into a room full of reporters for your briefing yesterday at 11:20am?
Significant words: Minutes before he walked into the House chamber, VP Dick Cheney, one of the most prominent Republican elder statesmen in America, just told me he is “deeply disappointed” in the Republican leadership and the way it has handled Jan 6.
.
@jonkarl
confronts Trump: "You told [Woodward] that you knew it was deadlier than the flu and you went out and told the American public that this was just like the flu ... You told everybody else something else."
SCOOP: ABC News has learned Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is recused from the Michael Cohen investigation. He had no role in raid of Cohen's office. Another recusal that will make
@realDonaldTrump
unhappy.
“Obviously we didn’t win.”
ABC EXCLUSIVE — Mark Meadows has testified before a grand jury in exchange for immunity - according to sources familiar with the former chief of staff’s conversations with the Special Counsel.
Meadows told prosecutors he he agreed the 2020 election…
ABC SCOOP: An Australian billionaire – Mar-a-Lago member – has told investigators Trump shared potentially sensitive info about the capabilities of America’s nuclear subs.
The Australian then shared the info with scores of others, including more than a dozen foreign officials,
ABC EXCLUSIVE: The DHS intelligence bulletin warning about foreign interference in the 2020 election was supposed to go out on July 9 but was blocked by Chad Wolf's chief of staff.
This story is especially significant after the DNI's suspension of in-person briefings to Congress
DHS withheld publication of intelligence bulletin warning of Russian scheme to push “allegations about the poor mental health” of Joe Biden, per emails and document draft obtained by
@ABC
.
@jonkarl
has the full story coming up on
@GMA
.
"The Court is accustomed to defendants who refuse to accept they did anything wrong, but in my 37 years on the bench, I cannot recall a time when such meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream." - Judge Royce Lamberth (Reagan appointee) today on Jan 6…
This just in … the RNC is warning Trump it will stop paying his legal bills if he launches a presidential campaign.
That’s right. They are still paying his personal legal bills — more than $1.7 million since October.
And there’s more. Molly Michael told investigators that when she told Trump the FBI wanted to talk to her, he replied: "You know nothing about the boxes."
NB: It was Molly Michael who handled the boxes with Walt Nauta. She took the photos of the boxes (for Trump) that later
This is big — Trump secretary Molly Michael told federal investigators that Trump wrote her notes - to-do lists! - on the back of documents marked classified, using the documents as if they were scrap paper, according to sources familiar with her statements.…
Here are the 35 Republicans who defied
@GOPLeader
and the rest of the Republican leadership to support the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol riot. Bolded names are those who voted to impeach Trump. (h/t
@bensiegel
)
.
@jonkarl
: Does Trump think it was a mistake for Nascar to ban the Confederate flag?
KAYLEIGH McENANY: "You're focusing on one word at the very bottom of a tweet. That's completely taking it out of context."
I have asked
@PressSec
and her deputies if the president has any comment on the "Hang Pence" threats coming from Trump's supporters. No answer to repeated inquiries. Does the President condemn these threats? No response from the White House. None.
EXCLUSIVE: Scavino told investigators he went in to see Trump as soon as he saw violence had broken out at the Capitol … he described Trump sitting in the small dining room next to the Oval Office, arms folded, staring at the TV, watching live coverage of the attack on Fox News.…
ABC News Exclusive: Pence notes reveal he had initially decided not to preside over electoral count on January 6:
“Not feeling like I should attend electoral count. Too many questions, too many doubts, too hurtful to my friend. Therefore I’m not going to participate in…
No sitting Secretary of State has ever spoken at a political convention. And none of the six previous Secretaries even attended a convention while in office.
Republican and Democrat, they all believed America's top diplomat should stay out of overt partisan politics.
President Trump has ensured the safety of America — and SECURED our many FREEDOMS, which is the cornerstone of this great nation.
I look forward to sharing with you how the President has delivered on that mission TONIGHT!
“So what?” - Donald Trump when told Mike Pence had to be evacuated because his supporters were attacking the Capitol.
White House aide Nick Luna, according to the sources, told investigators that when he informed Trump that Pence had to be evacuated to a secure location because…
The White House would not allow Dr. Fauci to speak this morning. In fact, the White House press office would not allow anyone on the President’s task force to be interviewed. Quite remarkable that they would muzzle the health experts in the middle of a pandemic
.
@jonkarl
: “(Dr. Fauci) was more than willing to join us, but the White House wouldn’t allow you to hear from the nation’s leading expert on coronavirus. In fact, they wouldn’t allow any of the medical experts on the president’s own coronavirus task force to appear on this show.”
When I asked the President if he would sign spending bills unrelated to the border wall, he repeatedly demanded to know if that is what I would do. It may be tempting to answer such a question, but that is not my job.
Wow -
@NikkiHaley
on Trump in an interview w
@TimAlberta
-
“We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”
REPORTER: “Why was the decision made to be transport him here?”
CONLEY: “Because he is the president of the United States”
He has been president since 1/20/17
NEW: Mark Kelly is sworn in as Arizona's second Democratic senator, shaving the Republican’s majority by one vote for the final weeks of the lame-duck session and marking the first time the state has had two Democrats in the Senate in 67 years.
At a fundraiser tonight,
@KamalaHarris
played trivia and answered questions from the cast of The Avengers.
And with that, the Democratic VP nominee has now taken more questions from cast of The Avengers than from the traveling press covering her campaign. (h/t
@MissBeaE
)
On
@ThisWeekABC
just now,
@Liz_Cheney
said the January 6 committee now has “first-hand testimony” confirming Trump was in his private dining room watching TV as the Capitol riot unfolded, as reported in “Betrayal”
"It was all bullshit."
That's what Bill Barr told me he thought of Trump's claims of election in an astonishingly candid interview for my upcoming book on the final days of the Trump Presidency - one of many on-the-record interviews for my book.
Today in Washington: The 1,090th person to be charged in connection with the January 6 attack on the US Capitol appeared in federal court.
Sketch by Bill Hennessy
Some in our media can’t contain their glee & delight in reporting that the U.S. has more
#CoronaVirus
cases than
#China
Beyond being grotesque,its bad journalism
We have NO IDEA how many cases China really has but without any doubt its significantly more than why they admit to
Molly Michael will be a central witness for Jack Smith.
She quit her job as Trump’s personal secretary last fall—not long after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago. She told investigators she was “uncomfortable” with how Trump handed the National Archives’ requests for presidential…
One of former Pres. Trump's aides has told federal investigators Trump allegedly wrote notes and "to-do" lists on the back of classified documents, sources tell ABC News.
@jonkarl
reports on what she allegedly says Trump told her about the seized boxes.
Here’s the memo, never before made public, that Johnnie McEntee's Presidential Personnel Office wrote making the case for firing Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Written on 10/19/20, it’s a remarkable window inside the thinking of the Trump White House.
#Betrayal
These are Trump’s handwritten edits to his January 7 statement.
He deleted any mention of DOJ prosecuting the rioters. And he he crossed out this message to those who committed the violence: “I want to be very clear, you do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.”
.
@PressSec
was pulled off Marine One before the Bedminster trip Thursday because she had contact with Hope Hicks. She did not, however, quarantine as recommended by CDC guidelines.
FALSE. 1) Dr Fauci has been doing media all week - appearing on PBS Newshour & NBC’s Andrea Mitchell
3 days ago. 2) not getting your desired guest does not = the WH trying to “muzzle” anyone. This narrative is tired. 3)
@jonkarl
didn’t request any other member of the task force.
The Republican leaders of the Michigan legislature put an end to the Trump legal team's crazy talk about having the legislature choosing the winner: “The candidates who win the most votes win elections and Michigan's electoral votes. These are simple truths...”
He lost three separate counts in Georgia
He lost an audit conducted by his allies in Arizona
He lost audits in Michigan
He lost in his multiple efforts to get the Supreme Court to intervene
No candidate ever found more ways to lose an election than Donald Trump.
This statement has been deleted from Trump’s website. What will he now say about the “highly respected auditors” who spent months going over Arizona’s ballots only to conclude Biden’s victory was actually slightly larger than the official result?
“They’re being built in Ohio, they’re being built in South Carolina, North Carolina, they’re being built all over” -
@realdonaldtrump
on 9/7/20
Reality: There are no new plants in Ohio, North Carolina or South Carolina.
Interesting -
@realDonaldTrump
basically stopped donating to Democrats after 2010, but he donated a total of $6000 to
@KamalaHarris
in 2011 & 2013 (
@IvankaTrump
gave another $2000 in 2014). Almost all of his donations were to Republicans, but he was giving to
@KamalaHarris
I was in the West Wing on the evening of January 20, 2017, talking to several incoming Trump officials as they moved into their offices. I saw no offices "filled with Obama books" and nobody mentioned "you will fail" notes. Here are photos I took at the WH that night
Today's 68-page ruling from the DC Court of Appeals rejecting Trump's claim of executive privilege should be read in its entirety.
It's about more than Trump's claim of privilege -- it's a clarion call for investigating what happened on Jan 6
Trump is again confused about who is president ...
He tells the crowd that Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has called for Obama to step down as president to be replaced immediately by Trump.
[NOTE: Obama isn't president]
.
@realDonaldTrump
on his AG: "He's not mentally qualified to be Attorney General"
- SecState: "Dumb as a rock"
- SecDef: "World's most overrated general"
- National Sec Adv: "A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war"
- Chief of Staff: "He was way over his head"
In the midst of a pandemic that has already killed 150K Americans and shows no sign of abating, it is bizarre to listen to a senior member of Congress shouting at and berating the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases.
This is important. Fauci, in fact, had been advocating for a China travel ban for days BEFORE the president imposed the ban. The president has repeated said Fauci was against the ban. That is simply not true.
My question to the VP: "How can the American people trust the President when he says this is crisis when he says things over and over again that aren't true?"
FLASHBACK: “Is there any concern about at least the appearance of a conflict there?”
Here is how the Obama White House responded to my questions about Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine — May 13, 2014.
SCOOP: DOJ has warned the White House an emergency declaration is nearly certain to be blocked by the courts on at least a temporary basis, preventing immediate implementation of the president's plan to pay for the wall. However, WH believes they can ultimately win on appeal.
Let’s be clear:
@PeterAlexander
is a first-rate journalist and a stand-up guy. It’s outrageous to use the presidential bully pulpit to bully a journalist like Peter — especially at a time like this.
"I am counting the days until he is gone."
That's what a high-ranking Republican in Congress who has been an ally of the president told me.
(It's 29 days)
Outgoing Attorney General Bill Barr said he sees no reason to investigate possible fraud in the November election, contradicting President Trump.
@jonkarl
reports.
Interesting ... with a simple majority vote, the Senate could decide to make the vote on removing
@realDonaldTrump
a secret ballot ... via
@JuleannaGlover
The White House is quiet and rather empty this morning, the door to the press office is locked. The press secretary hasn’t responded to calls, emails or texts as the extraordinary events of the past 24 hours unfolded.
In case you missed it … last night Trump said a general (unnamed) told him this about his post-Access Hollywood debate with Hillary Clinton:
“…fantastic general actually said to me, 'Sir, I've been on the battlefield, men have gone down on my left and on my right, I stood on
More Lamberth: "I have been shocked to watch some public figures try to rewrite history, claiming rioters behaved ‘in an orderly fashion’ like ordinary tourists, or martyrizing convicted January 6 defendants as ‘political prisoners’ or even, incredibly, ‘hostages.’ That is all…
When I interviewed Trump for "Betrayal" and asked him about his supporters chanting "Hang Mike Pence", he didn't condemn them, he defended them. Here's a clip from the interview. More audio from the genuinely shocking interview will air Sunday on
@ThisWeekABC
Trump's denial in Iowa this week that he had read "Mein Kampf" was not the first time he has denied reading Hitler -- or the first time there was reason for him to issue such a denial.
Here's a quick look at Trump's well-documented obsession with Adolf Hitler, an obsession that…
I just asked the President about Manafort:
KARL: Did you know Paul Manafort was sharing polling data from your campaign with the Russians?
TRUMP: No. I didn’t know anything about that.