President Donald Trump may have instructed his former personal lawyer (and now full-time Department of Justice head) Todd Blanche to threaten Democrats for daring to probe allegations of corruption, but Trump is rapidly losing his teeth, according to Trump’s biographer.
Michael Wolff is a longtime author and reporter best known for his extensive coverage of Trump’s political career, including several books about his first term and another about his return to office. And now Wolff says he’s seeing history repeat itself in the second Trump administration — with similarly pathetic consequences for Trump.
The Trump administration is attempting to push back against incoming Democratic leaders with a letter from the president’s top lawyer “taking an aggressive — and hugely controversial — stance” against the party’s new oversight plans.
But good luck defending a homefront with no army, said Wolff in a Thursday night “Inside Trump’s Head” podcast.
“[After January 3rd] … we are going to see Trump and the Trump Administration go to war with the Democrats and with Congress, but there’s going to be problems with that,” said Wolff. “Nobody [competent] works for the Justice Department anymore.”
“So many people have been leaving,” said show co-host Joanna Cole.
“Right. Most of the people he has had on his side to wage war are leaving. It is going to be Donald Trump and [Chief of Staff] Steven Miller. That is it.”
Normally, Trump could also count his defense attorney from his hush-money conviction as being in his corner — since Trump brought him on as Attorney General. But Wolff said Blanche “is in deep, and he’s got to start protecting himself” from legal liability.
“We’ve seen this before. This is exactly what happened after the loss of the election in 2020,” Wolff continued. “The entire White House — anybody who was semi-professional got out of there as fast as they could and he was left with Rudy Giuliani and his band of nutcases. … even Stephen Miller left him, and he only came back after January 6th. He came back, made his amends, but he was not among that group of Rudy Giuliani crazies who came to stand behind Donald Trump.”
“And I think we’re going to see this again,” concluded Wolff. “Stephen Miller will be in the Rudy Giuliani role and the other true believers — people who have nowhere else to go — will be beside Trump and everybody else will be, ‘I’m out of here.’ Susie Wiles, case in point.”
