I'm not surprised by the persistence in people accepting the things he is saying about the 2020 election as true, because it has become clear for a while that he has a unique hold on his political base. So that wasn't a surprise. Some of the actions that he took after the election in 2020 were surprising. You know, except I think that the behaviors around January 6 were something of a failure of imagination by officials.
Trump is fascinated with violence, and his damaging childhood has impacted him ever since. And the man who was more interested in winning in 2016 than being president, now really wants the title and the power again— along with the payback. Maggie Haberman joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend pod.
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