NEW YORK (Dagbladet): When several American news media reported that Donald Trump had been sent to the bunker in the White House to protect him from angry protesters outside, the then president must have been furious.
He is said to have told several staff members that those who had leaked this information to the media were traitors and should be executed, according to a new book, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost”, written by the Wall Street Journal journalist Michael Bender.
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Both Trump, his wife Melania and his son Barron were taken to the bunker below ground level while Black Lives Matter protesters protested loudly outside in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, several media outlets write, among other things. CNN and The Independent.
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– Boiled over
In the next few days, Trump publicly claimed that he had only been down to carry out a routine “inspection” of the bunker. But the reality was that the Secret Service considered the situation so threatening that Trump was sent down there to protect him, he had meetings with some of the top leaders of the military, Secret Service and other advisers.
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– Trump boiled over about the bunker story as soon as they came to the meeting and shouted that they should smoke out who it was that had leaked this. It was the most outraged some of the advisers had seen the president, Bender writes.
– The one who did this should be charged with treason. They should be executed! shouted Trump, according to the recent book.
Former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows “repeatedly tried to calm the president down while intimidating staff avoided eye contact,” according to the book.
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Rejects the information
In the following days, Trump is said to have asked Meadows many times if he had found the source.
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“Those who heard the president’s warning interpreted the outburst as a sign that the president was panicking,” Bender wrote.
Liz Harrington, Trump’s spokesperson, rejects the information from the book and tells CNN that Trump “never said or suggested this to anyone”.
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