I do not admire people who wait to tell the truth

And have you seen their book sales?

Back in the dark ages, during Watergate, the response to the corruption in the White House was “Don’t buy books from crooks.” I still apply that rule to the entire band of thieves who served in the Trump administration, kept their counsel, and told their stories in poorly-written books.

That’s tacky, is what. Sales of such tomes have been all over the map, but I wish readers would just leave off, and let these books fester in the bargain bins.

Here, the wonderful Washington Post does a comparison of what staffers said while they were in the gulag, and what they said after they left. And here’s one brave scribe’s attempt to read just about every Trump book (and not just staffers’) out there at the time. Yikes.

The fact of the matter is that the country needed to know all of this was going on at the time, and former administrators’ need to clear their own names will not work, not in print, and not in front of the Jan. 6th committee. As James Hohmann writes in the Washington Post, don’t call the people who only now are sharing pertinent information “Team Normal.” Call them “Team Silent,” whose members

…erred by mostly staying quiet when democracy itself was in its gravest hour of danger. They bear some degree of culpability for standing on the sidelines as the “big lie” metastasized into a cancer that continues to infect our politics.

Tantamount to a revolution, indeed.