Another book uncovers the degree to which the White House was basically an arm of Donald Trump’s political mission, even at the level of the Covid pandemic.
As per the impending book This Will Not Pass by New York Times correspondents Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns, Trump kept a room close to the Oval Office loaded up with MAGA merchandise.
“They in a real sense give you a shopping sack, and you took anything you’d like,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) was cited as expressing, as per a passage evaluated by The Hill. Murphy was visiting the White House in 2020 ― right off the bat in the pandemic ― when Trump showed him the MAGA gift shop connecting the Oval Office.
The book likewise subtleties the degree to which Trump expected lead representatives who maintained that assistance with the pandemic should offer him something as a trade off, for sure he called “the correspondence.”
“Trump was most keen on aiding individuals he coexisted with, and areas of the country he saw as Trump country,” the book notes, per an extract, looked into by SF Gate.
