A new book raised eyebrow-raising details about Senate Minority Chuck Schumer (D-NY) who appeared to make a damning miscalculation in 2023 that America would move on from President Donald Trump.
In June 2023, Schumer told Annie Karni and Luke Broadwater of The New York Times that he believed America would turn the page on MAGA and Trump, who he likened to "an evil sorcerer, [who] comes in, he says, ‘I can get that old world back.’”
“Here’s my hope … after this election, when the Republican party expels the turd of Donald Trump, it will go back to being the old Republican party," he said, according to a report in The Guardian, which obtained a copy of their upcoming book, "Mad House: How Donald Trump, MAGA Mean Girls, a Former Used Car Salesman, a Florida Nepo Baby, and a Man With Rats in His Walls Broke Congress."
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He thought more than two dozen Republican senators were "scared of Trump" and that “those people, if Trump is gone, will go back."
The authors wrote: "Despite all facts to the contrary, it was a core belief of Schumer’s that politics in America would recalibrate after Trump exited the stage. Driving through Brooklyn months before the shattering election cycle, Schumer repeated the sentiment.”
The exact opposite happened, however.
“The old Republican party was leaving, and the new MAGA guard was staying," the authors wrote. And, "if Schumer had seen any of it coming, he had not wanted to face it."
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) was quoted in the book as saying he was "willing to entertain the Schumer theory of the case” that the GOP could be saved from Trumpism.
But “he didn’t buy it himself," the authors said.
“There are plenty of examples of societies captured by a singularly unique individual demagogue and that get healthy after that person disappears,” Murphy said. “I don’t know. I’m not as optimistic as [Schumer] is. I worry there’s a rot at the core of the country that will continue to be exposed politically.”
Schumer wasn't incorrect on everything, however. When Trump was indicted a second time, the authors wrote he "didn’t think it would matter one bit in the presidential election."
“On this point, he would be proven correct," the book said.