Philip Bump in today's Washington Post:
"On Sunday evening, CNN aired a special featuring interviews with the senior officials involved in the early coronavirus pandemic response under President Donald Trump. No longer operating under the Trump political umbrella, they offered assessments of the past year that lacked any soothing veneer.
Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House response under Trump, expressed her belief that the deaths that occurred after the first wave of infections last spring were largely preventable. It’s a sentiment that matches recent research but was at odds with the sanitization practices of the Trump White House to which Birx had so often adhered. Anthony S. Fauci, the country’s top epidemiologist, suggested that it was government experts, not Trump, who had decided to push forward quickly on a vaccine to combat the virus in January 2020. That was months before the administration rolled out Operation Warp Speed, its push for vaccine development.
The former president got his say this weekend, too. He spoke for several minutes on Saturday night, excoriating the administration of President Biden in defense of his own.
The venue? A wedding at his private club in Florida." (our emphasis)
Sociopathic seditionist cult leader Donald "Mango Mussolini" Trump engaged in such infamous lying and attacks on our democracy that social media giants like Twitter and Facebook finally pulled the plug on him. That hasn't kept him from issuing frequent "statements" that he provides to the media, but after that point most will fact check his predictable lying.
Of course, he's talking about creating his own social media platform in "two or three months" much like his infrastructure plan or his middle class tax cut was coming in a couple of weeks. However, Trump's business model is using other people's money, buildings, etc. and having little of his own money at risk. His business failures -- from his casino to his steaks, airline and "university" -- have tanked, the latter enterprise being closed for fraudulent claims, so getting domestic investors might be hard. As long as he has the Fux family of sychophants and others, he can spew his venom. But his reach is primarily limited to reinforcing the beliefs of his hardcore cultists on conservative media.
The historians who will create the official historical record will describe his legacy as one of gross incompetence, division and a failed assault on our democracy among other things. Appearances on wingnut Laura Ingraham's lie fest won't change that.
BONUS: Steve M. wonders if Trump even cares about his "legacy."
