“What’s Mark thinking?” Kevin asked me later that day on the phone. “He’s giving the president bad advice.” “What do you mean?” I asked, but I’d had the same conversation with John Ratcliffe. “When I talk to the president, sometimes he admits he lost the election, and then he immediately says he didn’t lose it and there’s a way that he’s going to stay in office. Where is he getting that? I can only imagine that Mark is lying to him,” said Kevin. “Cass, there’s no way he actually thinks he won the election, right? Like, he knows it’s over.”
