Tom Arnold was focused on ending Donald Trump's presidency for a long time. He has to show for it. The comedian, who became famous in the 90s for his TV sitcom and movie roles, says that his ex-wife put in her divorce filing that he was suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. The Washington Post has a newsletter for important and interesting stories. Maybe his fourth ex-wife had a point. Arnold had gone down some rabbit holes. He wanted to find out if there was a cache of video recordings that could be damaging to the president. He secretly recorded a phone conversation with Michael Cohen, in which he walked back some of the crimes he had pleaded guilty to. The Secret Service knocked on Arnold's door to see if he was a national security threat after he attacked the president on social media. It was an interesting new chapter for an actor who once told Austin Powers to show who his boss was. Arnold was not the only one who fell into a strange new reality. Many Americans were so desperate for a deus ex machina that they put their faith in an array of figures who, in a universe in which Trump could become president, seemed like they could be credible prophets of his downfall. Arnold was a comic actor. There was a former member of British Parliament and a low-level Bill Clinton staffer. There was a person in the New York Times who reassured Americans that there were good people in the Trump administration. There was a bulldog lawyer representing the porn star. Four years ago, these figures formed a kind of Little Rascals version of the Justice League, and convinced many liberals that they were on the verge of something huge. We all know that Trump is no longer president because of his two impeachments and one election. What happened to those guys? The aftermath of the Trump years has been difficult for some members of this informal club. Multiple convictions, broken families, and falls from grace are some of the things that have happened. One claims to never think back on their days in the military, while the other thinks we are on the verge of a new era of thinking about who might intervene to keep Trump out of the White House. The author of the New York Times essay from inside the Trump administration says he is worried that it will happen again. Taylor said he has seen Democrats try to prevent Trump from running by either an indictment of the attorney general or a constitutional clause. Taylor says that people need to stop hoping that a white knight will save them. It helped that Arnold was getting calls from journalists who were serious about their work. One of those was Carl Bernstein, half of the duo that investigated the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post. Arnold claimed that while filming the movie "Maximum Impact" in Moscow in 2015, he learned about Russian attempts to compromise Trump. Bernstein says that he was not coherent in presenting any kind of credible information. Bernstein was the most famous reporter to reach out to. Arnold was interviewed by The Post but they decided against publishing it. Vice aired a tongue-in-cheek special about Arnold's unsuccessful quest to find recordings that could compromise Trump. Arnold said there was a lot of time spent in the Arnold household asking themselves, "Am I crazy?" - - Michael Avenatti, the porn star's former lawyer, asked if he was crazy at the time. Stormy Daniels, the porn star, replied that it was correct. The Manhattan courtroom drama had taken a turn to the absurd in late January. Avenatti was on the wrong end of charges that he had defrauded Daniels, and was questioning her about her belief in ghosts and shadow figures. Four years ago, Avenatti took Daniels as a client as she came forward with claims that Michael Cohen had paid her off to prevent an alleged tryst between the porn star and the president. There was a time when Avenatti, the pugilistic attorney with the close-cropped hair and natty suits, was everywhere you looked. He promised that there would be tapes that would be a big problem for the president. The Post reported recently that Trump's lawyer, Cohen, had secretly taped a discussion with Trump about whether to purchase the rights to a different woman's account of her alleged affair with Trump. There was Avenatti online, and he picked a fight with Donald Trump Jr. on the social networking site. He was barnstorming in Ohio, Florida and Iowa and working on potential campaign slogans. Fans wanted selfies with the man who was giving Trump a taste of his own medicine, and television bookers just couldn't get enough of him. Adam Parkhomenko, a Democratic strategist who offered early political advice to Avenatti, said that he was saying stuff that nobody was saying. There was a person who appeared to be the right person at the right time. The possibility of a run for president was not far-fetched, and Parkhomenko tried to be helpful by talking strategy. Avenatti remarked that there would be no issues if a background check was conducted on him, after one of Parkhomenko's friends asked him what would come up. Avenatti told Politico last year that he did not remember being asked about the skeletons in his closet at any such dinner. Parkhomenko said that he was just a bull. In a message through a paralegal, Avenatti said that he was the biggest threat to Donald Trump. Last year, Avenatti was sentenced to 2 years in prison for trying to extort Nike for up to $25 million by threatening the company with bad press, and earlier this month he was convicted of wire fraud and identity theft for taking $300,000 from Daniels. His ghost-stories defense didn't work. Avenatti has indicated that he will appeal both convictions. It may be hard to believe, but there was a time when a group of amateur sleuths were so popular that they earned the nickname "detectives". Claude Taylor, one such amateur sleuth, says that a man contacted him and said that if he brought his van to his shop, he would make it look like a TV show. The real-life misfits were chasing phantoms of a different kind, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers by sending out incorrect information about Trump. Taylor, who worked in Bill Clinton's volunteer office in the 90's before opening up a photography shop in DC, fell for a hoax that Trump's modeling agency was under investigation for. That particular scoop was promoted by Louise Mensch, a former British politician and author of books such as "For All the Wrong Reasons" and "When She Was Bad". He apologized through a spokesman. Much of Mensch's reporting was ridiculous. She claimed that Russian President Putin might have ordered the murder of Andrew Breitbart so that Stephen Bannon could run the website. She wrote that Orrin G. Hatch was likely to become president because he was likely to be charged with colluding with Russia to steal an election. Two months after her New York Times op-ed, Mensch reported that the Supreme Court had told Trump that impeachment proceedings were underway. There were always those who were willing to suspend their disbelief. Tom Nichols, a professor who gained internet fame as a conservative critic of Trump, said that politics is supposed to be boring. They were going to believe people who said that Trump was going to be arrested. Claude Taylor said that the former co-writers don't speak anymore. Mensch doesn't get a lot of attention from the mainstream press anymore. Taylor is still driving around in his Mystery Machine van, but he is trying to leave the rest of his investigative journalism behind him. He says that you are pulling him back into a previous identity. Taylor told Washingtonian that he would be happy if his reporting was correct 80% of the time. He says he was just trying to draw attention to big stories until real journalists entered the chat. Taylor asked if he had regrets when he looked back. I am more worried about the threat we are facing now. I'm not sure how much of a point there is. It seems like a long time ago. Why do you dwell? Taylor moved on to a new opportunity. Taylor started a Room Raters account to assess the aesthetic of the backdrop for journalists and newsmakers to film television appearances from inside their homes. The Room Raters account has twice as many followers as my other account after only two years, because journalists with large accounts just can't help but retweet commentary about their television appearances. Taylor raised thousands of dollars via Room Raters to send personal protective equipment to the Navajo Nation when it was hard to get it. It has been a boon for him as well. He says that they got a book deal from a major publisher and that it was a healthy advance. - - The identity of Miles Taylor was always at the center of his relationship with the anti-Trump celebrity. Taylor was the only one who had a secret identity. President Trump is facing a test to his presidency unlike any faced by a modern American leader, according to an op-ed written by a senior official in the Trump administration. The masked avenger wrote that he would know. Guessing the author's identity was a parlor game that went well beyond Washington. More than 30 senior officials denied being part of the hacking group. It might have been a letdown if it hadn't been for the revelation that the author was a Homeland Security official who was barely known outside of Washington. The aftermath of the unmasking was not anticlimactic for Taylor. He moved around to differentundisclosed locations after receiving many death threats, and for months he didn't feel comfortable being in public. Taylor is not in hiding today. He started a political organization to help elect principled Republicans over the growing ranks of pro-Trump extremists. Taylor said that it is mostly inconvenient, but that it could be a possible threat. To be safe, he had to go through them all. Taylor said he touches base with people who testified against Trump in an impeachment trial or were involved in a campaign against the former president almost every week. Being an anti-Trumper with a new and intriguing story to tell was a reliable way to become a hero of the resistance, until it became clear that that story wouldn't mean the end of Trump, a pattern that only became more apparent as his presidency continued. If you opposed the president, you would be seen as a villain by his supporters. Taylor says that speaking out in this era can cost you everything. Taylor says it cost him a lot, and no one needs to sympathize with him. I was very clear about the consequences. I knew that going against Trump would be bad for my life. Both Tom Arnold and He share that trait. Arnold lost more than just a wife when he battled Trump, he says. He thinks he missed out on potential job opportunities, and that some of his family members won't talk to him. He said he was not complaining about it. Cowards. Good riddance. Arnold and Taylor share something else. They would do it all over again. Taylor said in a heartbeat. Arnold said he would be crazy not to. - - The Washington Post has a reporter named Justin Wm. Moyer made a contribution to the report. There is related content. Two years after Italy's first covid lockdown, bikers trace a nearly 50-mile route through the red zone. Fans and businesses in Florida are feeling the effects of the MLB Lockout. 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