The Washington Post this morning published an excerpt from an upcoming book that dives into the wild final moments of Donald Trump's presidency.

I Alone Can Fix This is the highly anticipated book from Washington Post writers Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, who also wrote the best-selling book Very Stable Genius, which also detailed Trump’s White House inner workings and drama, not to mention Leonnig's Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, with such revelations as the "no fatties" directive.

The authors of the book make clear that “Most of the people interviewed agreed to speak candidly only on the condition of anonymity.” The details presented in the book were “based on hundreds of hours of interviews with more than 140 people, including the most senior Trump administration officials, friends and outside advisers to the 45th president.”

President Joe Biden, of course, won the election in November of 2020, which appeared to take Trump and his inner circle by some level of surprise, to say the least.

Just the details revealed in the excerpt alone were bonkers enough to cause a big reaction and drive a lot of eyeballs. 

Trump and the White House were utterly confident they’d “sealed the deal” on Election Day, for one example. "The mood in the West Wing was good. Some aides talked giddily of a landslide." Getting high on victory early just lead to even more pernicious states of denial among the believers.

There was the rage and incensed demands made of Fox News by Trump after the Arizona call, Rudy Giuliani's ideas about claiming victory, and a lot more.

The excerpt alone is a huge hit, talk of the town minute. Rucker and Leonnig have again caught the whirlwind of attention and the book is obviously going to be buzz for a while. That's a media win all around.

Newsmax host Rob Schmitt made the argument that coronavirus vaccines are “against nature” because they prevented as many people from dying as there would’ve been if science hadn’t interrupted the course of the pandemic.

Schmitt held a segment on Friday where he complained about how “despicable” it is that “the high and mighty Left and the media [are] ridiculing so many people for questioning vaccines.”

“It’s become so politicized,” he went on, “and many liberals will pump these vaccines into themselves and to their children simply to prove their loyalty to ‘science,’ ’cause that’s the in-thing to do right now.”

Talking with a guest about the Olympics banning spectators and the process for vaccinating athletes, Schmitt made a point of saying "“I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I’m not a pro-vaxxer. I’m somebody that’s looking at this thing and trying to figure it out.”

As the discussion continued, Schmitt offered his bizarre hot take on the nature of vaccinations in nature.

"Obviously, I’m not a doctor, but I’ve always thought about vaccines, and I always think about just nature, and the way everything works. And I feel like a vaccination in a weird way is just generally kind of going against nature," he said. "I mean, if there is some disease out there…maybe there’s just an ebb and flow to life where something’s supposed to wipe out a certain amount of people, and that’s just kind of the way evolution goes. Vaccines kind of stand in the way of that."

The idea of vaccines standing in the way of people being wiped out is, obviously, the reason for their existence. Framing that as a criticism of the lifesaving medicine is about the weirdest bad take we've seen. And inasmuch as it contributes to hysteria and constitutes clueless fearmongering, an obvious loser moment.
For Schmitt and for his network.