Sam Stein: Trump’s Chief of Staff Confessed Everything

She's trying to make sure she's on the witness list and not the defendant's bench when the Nuremberg trials begin 4 years from now...

My favorites: 1. admitting the retribution campaign 2. trashing Vance's political conversion 3. calling Elon a druggy odd duck 4. saying Trump is lying about Clinton being at Epstein's island 5. revealing that the drug boat strikes aren't about drugs but regime change

She thinks Trump won't make it all 4 years so she's burning everyone else on the way out.

She wants off the Trump train and this is her priming the pump for a $20M book deal

Musk himself admits he is a drug addict. Trump handed all our Social Security and IRS data to a drug addict and an apparently disturbed individual (Thiel) who thinks he is the messiah.

As an alcoholic in recovery, my first question is when was her last AlAnon meeting? We’re not generally in favor of enabling alcoholic behavior. Sam’s right. We have a First Enabler

I think she was proud of being the first female Chief of Staff. She began the interviews right away after taking the job. I think she wanted her place in history confirmed and Whipple had written a book on the topic of Chiefs of Staff. And once she started, she trusted that Whipple would be fair and she just got into the flow and opened up. Whipple himself said the comments afterwards were nondenial denials.

To cover herself when everything hits the fan.

She didn't just take a job in the administration, she was his 2024 campaign manager. She put in a lot of effort to get him into office again.

Heather Cox Richardson has a good theory on this: they all think they are doing something big and important, and they want to document it in real time. In their view, their personal flaws are secondary to the historical importance of their dark revolution.