selfish or childish campaign. he is reporting that when to comes to winning, it was a fake campaign. maybe all those being a could youations fakery are some kind of tell. none of the ideological, it s not about trump s politics, it s about trump. and that s what makes it more devastating to trumpism, because it could depress even his supporters if they accept the account in the book and the evidence that trump was conning them. now, this part of the book has gotten, i think, a little less attention, because no one s lost a job over that yet. and it s also so counter to donald trump s brand that it takes more thinking to untangle. even a lot of trump critics buy into the story that he only cares about winning, they say that. this book says that trump didn t actually need to win. he liked the game. he was so happy to just be in the game that he preemptively surrendered to hillary. he was planning a loss and happily playing along. this book was saying that trump was basically happy to be
harlem globetrotters. that rutrump was happy to don a green jersey like the one you see on your screen there and every day get played by hillary, which is different than many covered 2016. the book argued that he would be like that washington general player you see there, leaving the net open while the globetrotters win and dunk. boom. wolff reports trump told allies, losing was winning and he would be the most famous man in the world, a martyr to crooked hillary. and wolff said he based this reporting on more than 200 interviews. i have recordings, i have notes, i am certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything i ve reported in this book. the book quotes people like roger ailes and rupert murdoch for evidence. those are people wolff dined with and spent years covering for other books. but is there more evidence? i can tell you tonight, yeah. the evidence that trump was the washington generals, or as wolff puts it in the book, the producers. that s another plot