Meadows would bring in his favorite “Trump whisperers” to either calm the president down or give him pick-me-ups. They included familiar staples such as Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, and congressmen Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz. We all knew that whenever Trump needed someone to defend him on TV on anything, Gaetz was our boy. He would do anything for Trump and a TV hit—though not necessarily in that order.
