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Former Trump exec warns: ‘If all else fails, he’ll burn down the house’

‘The notion of being a loser is something that he couldn’t possibly conceive’

James Crump
Thursday 12 November 2020 12:51 EST
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Ex-Trump Exec Gives Dark Warning: If all else fails he'll burn down the House

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Former Trump Organisation executive Barbara Res has said that President Donald Trump will “do anything” to stay in the White House.

President-elect Joe Biden was projected to win the US election on Saturday, after amassing more than the 270 electoral college votes needed to win.

However, Mr Trump has refused to concede the election and has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claimed that there was widespread fraud in multiple swing states.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Thursday, Ms Res, who previously served as the vice president of construction at the Trump Organisation, claimed he will “do anything” to stay in office.

“It’s a matter of wrestling this loss, as it were, from the victory of Biden, and he’ll do anything,” Ms Res said. “And if all else fails, he will burn down the house."

Following the election, the Trump campaign issued lawsuits in several states, citing widespread voter fraud, but there is no evidence to back up the claims.

Ms Res told Mr Melber that President Trump “can’t deal with losing” and said that it is unlikely that he has been able to process the outcome of the election.

“The notion of being a loser is something that he couldn’t possibly conceive or believe, so I don’t think he believes that he’s a loser quite yet,” Ms Res added.

Her remarks echoed comments made by President Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, in an op-ed written for The Guardian.

“He’s not going to engage in the normal activities that guarantee a peaceful transition. All he’s got now is breaking stuff, and he’s going to do that with a vengeance,” Ms Trump wrote last weekend.

Ms Res recently released a book about her time working for Mr Trump, titled Tower of Lies:  What My Eighteen Years of Working With Donald Trump Reveals About Him.

In the book, Ms Res repeatedly criticised President Trump, and wrote: “The seeds of who he is today were planted back when I worked with him.”

She added: “He surrounded himself with yes-men, blamed others for his own failures, never took responsibility, and always stole credit.”

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