Arizona's Doug Ducey kept a huge secret for Trump – even as the ex-president destroyed his career: report

Donald Trump likely kept Doug Ducey from mounting a U.S. Senate campaign by branding him as disloyal, but a new revelation shows the former Arizona governor actually kept a secret to protect the twice-impeached ex-president.

New reporting shows Trump pressured Ducey to deny Joe Biden's election win in Arizona, and video shows the former governor was signing the certification for the new president as the ousted president apparently made one last-ditch attempt to change his mind via a phone call. He never revealed details of those Trump's desperate efforts to the public, wrote MSNBC columnist Hayes Brown.

"In his apparent desire to keep the peace with Trump," Brown wrote, "Ducey kept details of the pressure campaign a secret and withheld information the American people deserved to know."

An anonymous Republican donor learned of those efforts while sharing a meal with Ducey, and two other sources confirmed the claims, but the ex-governor failed to alert the public or law enforcement even as Trump set about destroying his political career, and he kept his secret even as election deniers sought high-level offices in his state and cost taxpayers who picked up the tab for investigating bogus claims of fraud.

"Ducey’s reticence is hard to parse," Brown wrote. "It didn’t serve his own political ambitions. It didn’t serve the interests of his party statewide, not when he could have used his voice to push back against the likes of failed gubernatorial candidate-slash-conspiracy theorist Kari Lake. In the end, I can think of only one person whose interests it did serve: Donald Trump — a man who most likely still can’t stand him."