Maggie Habermann: Trump’s Inner Circle ‘Genuinely Believe in Him’ and Was ‘Radicalized’ by the Investigations Against Him

RUSH EXCERPT:

HABERMANN: “This is a group of people who genuinely believe in him. These are people who in many ways got radicalized by the investigations into him, by the assassination attempts that he faced watching him get. He’s the he’s the first sitting president who in the U.S. who is a convicted felon. And, you know, he is still obviously trying to get that appealed. But they were in these court fights with him and watching him still win and watching him win overwhelmingly and watching their data prove to be right. Basically informed their view of how they were going to function, which is a he was denied things that he wanted last time by people who either saw him as dangerous or at least in need of being curbed in some way. And remember, he had never run for city council, you know, much less president. He wins on the first shot. He has no familiarity with the federal government outside of lobbying for, you know, contracts or lobbying for grant funding or things like that. And he expects the world to function kind of like a municipal government. Right. And that is what he knows. In New York. He didn’t know most of his government last time. He didn’t know most of his White House last time."