Hope didn't believe that he won the election.
She told him to move on.
Trump did not respond well. In meetings, he'd say that Hope didn't believe in him.
The aide to Donald Trump told him what he didn't want to hear after the election.
The close aide was preparing to leave the White House and stayed away from Trump's 2020 election challenges, even as he brooded and "talked of little else" in the aftermath of the race being called for Biden.
According to the book, Trump was told by his former aide that it was time to move on.
Trump did not respond well. They wrote that Hope wouldn't believe in them. She would not reply. Nobody is convinced that I'm wrong. She told an associate that any further attempts to steer Trump would be pointless.
After working for the Trump Organization and campaign, she joined the White House communications team and later became a counselor to the president. On the day of the Capitol insurrection, she did not bother to go into the office after she told Trump his election challenge was wrong.
In the first few days after his loss, some advisors thought that Trump had come up short. When he saw Biden on TV, he asked, "Can you believe I lost to this guy?"
The kind of advisers who might have steered him toward acceptance were no longer around the president, who remained cloistered for days after the election.
The strategic communications director resigned out of disgust.
The authors wrote that the outgoing president was empowering his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who they blamed for his first impeachment.
"'Obviously, I support you, but I can't help you on that,'" Kushner told Trump, as he related the story to another Republican at the time," the authors said.
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