In the midst of former President Trump’s first impeachment, then-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham says he called her into his office at the front of Air Force One. He had been watching one of the hearings and didn’t like what he saw.
“He screamed at me, lots of expletives, told me how useless I was,” she said. Her sin: “not enough people were on TV defending him.”
Despite the former president’s apparent dissatisfaction, in 2019 and early 2020 there was a wide-reaching, highly coordinated effort to defend him in the court of public opinion. That isn’t the case now, as the House Select Committee on January 6th wraps up its series of summer hearings in prime time Thursday night.
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