Trump Ripped Oval Office Defense From His Business Playbook
The president has always been a pugilist. This time he’s punching American democracy.
President Donald Trump, speakig at a rally in Omaha on Oct. 27.
Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
Anyone who wants to understand why the most powerful person in the world is dragging out the election he lost won’t find many answers in history books. You’d be better off looking at this billionaire television personality’s career instead. There is the stuff of hubris, celebrity, ambition, and scandal here, but also something stranger. Donald Trump got in over his head again and again, and then refused to concede defeat until he found ways to claim his own kind of triumph.
“This is a man who has avoided consequence his entire life,” says his former attorney, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty in 2018 to crimes tied to his work for Trump. “Donald Trump will never admit that he lost.”