MarkMeadows was the worst White House Chief of Staff according to Chris Whipple.
H.R. Haldeman is worse than Meadows according to the author.
The Watergate figures look like choir boys compared to Trump and others.
Chris Whipple, an author who has interviewed dozens of White House chiefs of staff, said that Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the House January 6 committee made it clear that MarkMeadows is the worst White House chief of staff in history.
In the wake of Hutchinson's testimony, Whipple argued that not even Richard Nixon's Watergate cronies could compare.
"Meadows absolutely owns it, even though it used to be a fairly stiff competition for the worst chief of staff in history," said Whipple.
Hutchinson, a former top aide toMeadows, painted a jaw-dropping portrait of her boss, who appeared non-plussed by an insurrection just blocks away, an attack by the Trump campaign to overturn the election.
The rioters are closing in. Did you talk to the president? Hutchinson told the committee that she asked the man.
According to Hutchinson, the man said he wanted to be alone.
Hutchinson said that he tried to convince one of the most powerful people in America's government that he should be worried about a violent attempt to storm the Capitol.
She said that she felt like she was looking at a bad car accident when she started to get frustrated. I don't know how to get Mark out of this but I think he needs to care.
This image will be one of the legacies of the man.
I used to think that the defining image of MarkMeadows would be mugging for Don Trump's video camera in the tent at the Ellipse before Trump went out to encourage a mob to attack the Capitol. The defining image of the man is the guy sitting on the couch in the White House chief's office scrolling through his phone while a violent mob attacks Capitol Police.
Hutchinson portrayed Meadows as sitting on his couch with his phone in his hand. She said that in one instance, he mused that things might get real, real bad on January 6.
H.R. Haldeman was Nixon's chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and was elevated to Trump's final chief. Haldeman called himself Nixon's "son-of-a-bitch" while he was in prison.
It's clear to him that Haldeman was not as bad as Meadows. The extent of what the public knows aboutMeadows' conduct has grown since he was declared the worst chief in history.
The Watergate figures look like choir boys compared to Trump and others. The most serious political scandal in American history pales in comparison to a president who sends an armed mob against the Capitol knowing that there will be violence. A co-conspirator was with a chief of staff who just shrugged and looked the other way.
The person who answered the question did not reply. Ben Williamson, who is now a spokesman for the congressman, denied that he didn't care about the attack on the Capitol.
"I've worked for Mark for 7 years and any suggestion that he didn't care is ridiculous," he wrote in a text message. "If the committee actually wanted answers to that question, they could've played my interview where I outlined to them howMeadows immediately acted when I told him of initial violence at the Capitol that day," she said. They seem to be more interested in speculation and gossip as a way to taint people.
Thousands of text messages that detail the extent to which lawmakers and even Fox News hosts pleaded with the White House to calm the mob were turned over to the committee. The House held him in contempt because he refused to testify or give more documents.
The book was written about being the president's top aide. The "Abominable No-Man" nickname was given to President Sherman Adams by the White House chiefs of staff.
As the modern presidency has grown, the job has become more important. Dick Cheney had a heart attack on the job. James A. Baker has said that the president is more powerful than the chief.
Being White House chief of staff is one of the most powerful jobs in Washington, D.C. "But so much depends on your relationship with your present," Baker said during an interview with NPR.
In just their first term, Trump went through more chiefs of staff than any other president. Those who took on the job had a hard time persuading a president. Even judged on this curve, Whipple says thatMeadows is woefully short.
Trump's approach to the job was sycophantous, according to Whipple. He was a kind of glad-handing Maitre d' who tried to please Trump. He told everyone what they wanted to hear. He is the polar opposite of the best chiefs.
There are other former Trump staffers who have gone after him. "Meadows did not match the moment, despite billing himself as a chief's chief," Kellyanne Conway wrote in her book. Trump lashed out at the North Carolinian after he wrote in his book that Trump had contracted a vaccine before the debate. AMeadows spokesman later claimed it was a misunderstanding about a false positive rapid test and that Trump didn't have conclusive evidence during the debate.
It's up to President Joe Biden's administration to figure out how to respond to the committee's findings. Whipple doesn't think this will be the end of what Americans know about what happened in the West Wing.
When "The Gatekeepers" was published, Priebus made a remark to Whipple that has become more prescient as time goes on.
Priebus said to take everything you've heard and divide it by 50. In the upcoming book, "The Fight of His Life," Whipple will discuss Biden's presidency.
Few people in Washington knew who Hutchinson was.
There is a lot more to come. When Cassidy Hutchinson was done on Tuesday, think about where we were on Monday. We're not at the end of the road, that's for sure.
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