The comment came from Tim O’Brien, the author of TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald and senior executive editor of Bloomberg Opinion, during an interview on MSNBC after being asked about possible plans for former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. interview by committee. The Associated Press reported Thursday that the House committee interviewed former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and that lawmakers asked the former Trump official for cabinet-level discussions to use the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office after the rebellion. Pompeo is also likely to speak with the committee soon, according to the AP, which has also reached out to former Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. Former President Donald Trump “must be rattled” now that the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol is talking to top former Cabinet officials, his biographer said Sunday. Above, Trump is seen Friday in Bedminster, New Jersey. Mike Stobe/LIV Golf “Mike Pompeo said he’s considering talking to the committee about possible testimony. Do you think Trump is being rattled by these senior members of his administration who are cooperating?” MSNBC anchor Lindsey Reiser asked O’Brien. “I can’t get into his head completely, but Trump has always believed in unwavering faith…And I think throughout his presidency he’s been a pretty solid wall. I don’t think you saw many people in the inner circle – they gave up before they really decided to piss him off,” he replied. The biographer said he believes “the work” of the Jan. 6 panel “convinced” senior Trump officials to testify. He added that it’s “unfortunately very late in the process” but believes these former cabinet members “took their cues” from other Republicans such as former Attorney General Bill Barr, who testified before the committee, and Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is vice chair of the committee. “The bottom line of what the committee seems to be asking Mnuchin and Pompeo and others about … is whether they were so alarmed by what happened on Jan. 6 that they wanted to invoke the 25th Amendment and force Trump out of office ». O’Brien said. “So it must be bothering him because these are people from the past…I don’t think they would ever publicly come against him from the other side.” Newsweek has reached out to Trump’s press office for comment. In a separate interview earlier this month, O’Brien said Republicans are “lying to themselves” and hoping Trump will go away.
