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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHOLY CRAP Nicole Wallace talking about New Book about Transition.
Biden Transition team concern about Military coup.
70 plans of what might happen.
I knew concerns had been talked about. Hell I knew something was going to happen but not Jan 6th that is until I heard the speeches of that day.
Ocelot II
(116,140 posts)for those of us who aren't by a tv right now.
Jilly_in_VA
(10,064 posts)This is the first I've heard of any such.
Captain Zero
(6,909 posts)at all given to Biden's incoming administration. Isn't there a law that requires that be done, and did Trump break that law?
PA_jen
(1,114 posts)txwhitedove
(3,939 posts)ancianita
(36,273 posts)I have that book in my wish list on Amazon. It was supposed to come out today!
Edit to add: I went ahead and bought it. It will definitely be my next book.
ancianita
(36,273 posts)I gotta say that one review that I read covers a section of the book that puts Kamala Harris in a pretty bad light -- comments by her staffers -- re her ability as a leader, and how Biden is bothered by this. Not good news for 2024.
PatSeg
(47,868 posts)We hear so little about Kamala Harris and when we do, it is often rather lackluster.
ancianita
(36,273 posts)if her leadership were potentially presidential, praise would be coming from her staff, instead of complaint. Staff always want to be proud of their leaders.
I believe it because, even though Harris doesn't have to be perfect, if any of her support network feel that she's disorganized and insecure because of that, and/or reveal that her deflecting and blaming underlings reaches a point where a few have to critique it, that's not a good sign.
PatSeg
(47,868 posts)that isn't a good sign. It is a shame, as I was really impressed with her as a senator. Perhaps becoming Vice President was too much, too soon. That often happens in politics.
Oh well, I'll reserve judgment until after I've read the book.
Irish_Dem
(48,832 posts)He is a very brave man.
yorkster
(1,571 posts)Book is about the transition and early part of Biden first two years, fears about Trump and the military, and period before Russian invasion of Ukraine.
I think she could have interviewed just Whipple. Michael Schmidt book about John Kelly and Trump has already gotten a lot of airtime, too much imho.
moonscape
(4,678 posts)about it in the last week on her show, and Whipples book sounds to be a new page turner vs re (yawn) more Kelly and exact same ground.
MOMFUDSKI
(5,906 posts)someone thought the military would actually engage in a coup. Does someone know way more than most of us? Scary stuff.
Bev54
(10,126 posts)husband after all. A fact that I think should be disclosed every time he is on her show.
yorkster
(1,571 posts)It has always struck me as strange that there's never any mention of them being married. Like a kind of sneaky nepotism...I do like Nicolle - just find it odd.
Ocelot II
(116,140 posts)NBachers
(17,223 posts)DeeDeeNY
(3,361 posts)" When asked by the head of the Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Debra Birx, about informing the transition team of the Trump administrations findings in the weeks preceding the transfer of power, Kushner replied Absolutely not, former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin told the congressional panel."
https://washingtonpress.com/2023/01/01/sabotage-how-jared-kushner-interfered-in-the-biden-transition-and-hurt-the-nations-health/
Mr.Bill
(24,419 posts)incriminated Jared in a number of ways. He strikes me as seeing the pandemic as nothing but a way for him to make money.
LiberalFighter
(51,631 posts)FakeNoose
(33,035 posts)In fact the US military from the Joint Chiefs on down HATED Chump and they couldn't wait to be rid of him.
Let's realize that Chump is no Mussolini, and he's no Hitler. Chump isn't even a Putin. The only bargaining chip he had left in his arsenal on January 6th, 2021 was the screaming mob that stood outside the Capitol building. January 6th was never going to be a successful coup. Certainly not with military participation of any kind.
I do want to read this book when it comes out because it seems that Chris Whipple put a lot of time into researching it. It sounds like some good background info is in this book.
RussBLib
(9,073 posts)....can't help but wonder what their actual actions or responses might have been if Trump tried to use the military.
So they weren't just walking around deaf, dumb, and blind.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That was the email the White House chief of staff, Ron Klain, sent to Chris Whipple at 1.16 am after the 2022 midterms, as it became clear Democrats were likely to hold the Senate and lose far fewer seats in the House than almost every reporter predicted.
Whipples inside look at Joe Bidens White House is a ringing confirmation of Klains judgment.
Though Whipples friendships within the Washington press corps prevent him from saying so, this is a book-length rebuke of the incompetence of legions of reporters who have persistently underestimated this extraordinary president.
A NYT reviewer evaluates it as a valuable book on the first half of an unfinished presidency, which includes many fights, that will remain so long after it's joined by histories of the entire term.
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