Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's new book, Enough, was released on Tuesday – and excerpts continue to make shocking revelations of the scene inside Donald Trump's final year in office.
After losing the 2020 election, Trump was raging with humiliation, she said.
“An unhinged chief executive, willing to overturn the will of the people and plunge the country into chaos and violence on the advice of crazy people. For what? To avoid the embarrassment of conceding an election he knew he had lost?” describes Hutchinson toward the end of the book.
In one incident, she recalls Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows' desperate need to keep Trump from being angry at him.
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"Mark stuck his head out of his office that same day and said, 'The president’s real mad at me.' By then many of us knew that Trump had accused Mark of 'giving up' — failing to continue contesting the election results. 'Can you have the staff secretary print the one-year security memorandum for POTUS to sign?' he asked. 'I think that’ll make him happy.'"
Trump wanted a solid year of security for his adult children that would include limo service as well as staff. Hutchinson said that they should probably check with the Secret Service, and warned that publicity could be bad since it had never been done before.
“He’s so angry at me all the time. I can’t talk to him about anything post–White House without him getting mad that we didn’t win. I’m trying to figure out something to make him happy," said Meadows.
"I asked the acting staff secretary to draft two versions of the memo, one that gave Trump’s adult children six months of protection and one that gave them a year. The president signed both copies, and told Mark, 'You pick which one to deliver,'" she recalls.
She submitted the six-month letter. Trump's bad press for the decision flooded the news cycle, particularly after it was revealed how much his children cost taxpayers.
Secret Service extension for Trump’s adult children cost $140,000 in a single month, The Guardian reported in May 2021. At that rate, six months would cost $840,000 just in service to Trump's kids.
Raw Story has full coverage of Hutchinson's book Enough here.
