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Donald Trump called Joe Biden a mental retard in the 2020 election, a new book said, but was reluctant to attack him with excessive force for fear that Democrats would replace him with Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama.
Biden continued to beat Trump by more than 7m in the popular vote and at 306-232 in electoral college, a result that Trump considered a landslide when it favored Clinton in 2016.
Trump refused to accept defeat, pushing the lie that it was a result of election fraud. The lie resulted in the deadly attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, a mob Trump said would fight like hell, and a second impeachment. Trump was acquitted of inciting the uprising and remains eligible to run for the position.
He leads the polls of Republican nominees for 2024 and returns to public speaking. On Monday, Forbes reported a planned trip with former Fox News host Bill OReilly, who left the network amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
Honestly, Did We Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost, by Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal, was published in August. Trump was among those interviewed for the book. Vanity Fair published an excerpt on Monday.
Past revelations include that Fox News host Sean Hannity, who has been censored for campaigning for Trump, wrote an ad for the Trump campaign.
Bender wrote that Trump interrupted a meeting at the White House to ask: How am I losing polls to a mental retard?
The idea that Democrats would replace Biden came from Dick Morris, a former Bill Clinton adviser who moved right and informally advised Trump.
Dick Morris told Trump that Biden was too old and too prone to gaffes to be a nominee, Bender wrote.
Biden was 78 years old when he became the oldest president to be sworn in. Trump will be 75 next week.
Bender added that Trump believes his attack on Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren in the early Democratic primary was too successful. Trump gave Warren a racist nickname, Pocahontas, based on his claim to Native American ancestry.
Thinking Warren would be an easier opponent, Bender wrote, Trump was angry with aides who realized Democrats [Biden is] adults, and they will give it to someone else. They’ll give it to Hillary, or they’ll give it to Michelle Obama.
Trump fears Democrats will move to replace Biden at their convention.
According to widespread reporting, Trump’s fears about Clinton are not entirely unfounded. Clinton considered jumping into a career in which Biden struggled before advancing to success.
According to Edward-Isaac Dovere’s Battle for the Soul, released last month, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state will think out loud sometimes about getting a nomination at a controversial convention.
However, Michelle Obama never expressed interest. The former first lady remained very popular on the Democratic base but repeatedly abandoned a career in frontline politics.
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