Steve Schmidt goes after Maggie Haberman for holding back information on Trump for her book..

[HipChick]

https://www.rawstory.com/maggie-haberman-donald-trump-2658413988/

[PortTack]

1. And ppl wonder why she gets dragged..I don't!

[Midnight Writer]

2. Steve Schmidt was sure upfront about Sarah Palin's loony-tunes. After the election.

[JI7]

3. Palin's negatives were all made public with reporters covering it

unlike with Trump.

[Genki Hikari]

5. Good grief.

He was one of dozens who was involved in the choice of Palin, and only after McCain rejected more conventional choices like Romney and Pawlenty did he settle on her. Even when the moment came to make the call, he declared it a big risk, as did McCain's wife.

McCain made the choice, anyway. In the end, it's ALL on him. Nobody else could make that call. Only he could.

Once the choice was made, what else could Schmidt do as a campaign manager? He believed in John McCain, and figured Palin--well, she'd be tucked away as VP with the occasional public appearance talking to schoolkids or something like that.

Was it a failing to stand up for his candidate's choice, rather than walking away and revealing what an idiot she was? Yeah, but he woke up to it and has atoned for it. That's more than most rwnjs have done.

Know who is most to blame for Palin? Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, Dick "Toe-Licker" Morris and Rick Lowry. They spent months pumping her in the rw media ecosystem, long before Schmidt had anything to say about a VP, one way or another.

[thucythucy]

4. I think Schmidt's argument applies much more to White House staffers

and Trump insiders who saw specific instances of the man being the unhinged, ignorant bigot that he is and said nothing at the time. A bunch of them have written books or otherwise cashed in on this knowledge--which the public deserved to know at the time.

[thesquanderer]

6. FWIW, the other side of this...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/07/haberman-trump-news-book

or no-paywall copy at https://archive.ph/0DOpj