Betrayal Quotes

“skulked”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

“Future generations will wonder how Trump came to be president in the first place and how so many remained loyal to a man who offered loyalty to nothing but himself.”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

“It may also be said of these people that they saved our democracy by refusing to break the law. Some of them paid a steep price for doing the right thing. Brad Raffensperger, for example, became a target of death threats that continued months after the election and that were focused not just on him but also his family. People who believed Trump’s lies about the election somehow got Raffensperger’s wife’s phone number and bombarded her with threatening and pornographic messages. The pressure was intense, but he stayed focused and did what the law required him to do. “Sometimes a person has to stand up and be counted,” Raffensperger told me. “I’ll stand up and be counted because I stood on the truth.”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

“of Ulysses S. Grant in 1869.*”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

“As he left the White House for the last time, Trump walked over to a group of White House reporters and said, “It was a great honor. The honor of a lifetime.” He’s right. It was the honor of a lifetime. But unlike any of the forty-three presidents who served before him, he repaid that honor by betraying the very democratic system that made it possible for him to be president. We now live in a nation where a large part of the population does not trust our elections. There are many reasons for this, but none greater than Donald Trump and the lies he told about the 2020 election. —”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show

“the months ahead, while the country battled a pandemic and fears of economic collapse, Trump’s most loyal lieutenant would lead a witch hunt, browbeating cabinet secretaries, scouring voting records and social media accounts of officials high and low, conducting loyalty interviews, and installing inexperienced people with questionable backgrounds into some of the most sensitive and important”
― Jonathan Karl, Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show