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The wackiest meeting in the West (Wing)

The wackiest meeting in the West (Wing)

Bring on the tell-all Trump administration memoirs.

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Feb 03, 2021
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Now that he’s out of office, this kind of thing isn’t a horror movie anymore. It’s a slapstick comedy. (Well, a comedy with horror elements, since there are still millions of Americans who wanted this to keep on rolling. Or maybe a horror movie with comedy elements. Basically, we’re in the Scream franchise now.)

Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office. It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official.

"How the hell did Sidney get in the building?" White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann grumbled from the outer Oval Office as Sidney Powell and her entourage strutted by to visit the president. 

President Trump's private schedule hadn't included appointments for Powell or the others: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and a little-known former Trump administration official, E…

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