It's hard to see House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy's pilgrimage to Donald Trump's golf resort as anything but acceptance of the former President's unique attempt to destroy democracy, StCollinson writes. | Analysis
His trip to the ex-President's New Jersey golf resort on Thursday came with Washington in shock over new revelations about Trump's crazed last days in office and his refusal to leave office peacefully after a clear election defeat. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, for instance, feared Trump might try to seize control of the military to stage a coup, according to a forthcoming book by two Washington Post reporters.
Encapsulating the strange political universe that McCarthy now inhabits, he left Trump's side for an evening at the White House with President Joe Biden -- who his patron denies was legitimately elected. Biden's guest of honor, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was one of the foreign leaders Trump most disdains.
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