President Donald Trump has been racking up a painful slew of losses, according to a former Republican who has founded an anti-Trump group.
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“Now, back to the loser-in-chief,” Rick Wilson of The Lincoln Project wrote on Tuesday, referencing the Iran war. WIlson quickly noted that that Egypt, Qatar and the UAE have been far more influential in shaping its resolution than Trump himself.
“We are a peripheral player at the table we built,” Wilson said. “Trump didn’t turn a page. He transformed America into a footnote in the global power structure we should steer. Odd how abandoning every value will do that.”
He also described Trump’s meager page and a half memorandum of understanding as not a treaty or even “a real memorandum of understanding” but rather “a DocuSign.”
“That’s an agreement to make an agreement, a coupon for a future deal that may or may not be honored, redeemable nowhere, expiring whenever Tehran decides it’s bored,” Wilson explained.
He added, “This is what the maximum-pressure tough guy actually delivered. He gave the regime he bombed a financial lifeline. He gave the Iranian state a bridge loan. He campaigned for a decade, calling the Obama deal a catastrophe that funneled billions to the mullahs, then turned around and built a worse version with a Gulf cutout to keep his own fingerprints off the cash.”
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Wilson concluded, “Everything Trump touches dies, and then he bills you for the funeral.”
Earlier this month Wilson interviewed the founder of a group called Leaving MAGA that encourages Trump supporters to admit they were wrong and that the president does not have their best interest at heart.
“And let me just open with my usual customary apology,” Leaving MAGA founder Rich Logis told Wilson. “I would like to say that I’m sorry for my past support of Trump and MAGA. When I was in MAGA, the Lincoln Project was the devil — loathed and despised. And if I had met you when I was in MAGA, I would have said that you were an existential threat to our country.”
Logis added, “My journey really started in 2015. I was very politically disillusioned. I believed that the two parties had been the same — that they failed to represent most of the country, except for the wealthy and the powerful. I was unapologetically all in. I spoke to Trump groups. I donated to them. I was a sponsor. There was probably no one who was as devout a supporter of Trump and MAGA as I was.And born from that apology and recounting of my story was our organization, Leaving MAGA, which we founded as a new community — a new destination for people who are leaving MAGA, who are having doubts.”
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