Trump's Threat to Take Down the GOP Still Stands
Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie don’t know if Donald Trump will remain a Republican, but they believe Republicans owe him their loyalty.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE December 05, 2017
“First of all,” David Bossie recalls Donald Trump telling his inner circle, “I’m going to win. And second, if the Republican Party is going to run away from me, then I will take you all down with me. But I’m not going to lose.”
That was during the weekend last October when the “Access Hollywood” tape broke and Trump lashed back at Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus for telling him he should either drop out or prepare to go down in a landslide.
People will dissect sentences and paragraphs of “Let Trump Be Trump,” the new “Game Change”-style insider book from Bossie and Corey Lewandowki. They’ll point out that parts aren’t true and other parts can’t be true, or just how much acrobatic hagiography is required to spin stories of a petulant, often raging candidate into tales of a man who just cares so much, and understands things so well.
“What a waste of time and money,” they say Trump said on election night when it looked like it he was going to lose, before greeting his sudden turnaround with, “Dave, can you believe this? We just started this to have some fun.”
They describe a man whose own loyalty flares and fades, while insisting that aides and Republicans overall owe loyalty to him.
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