President Trump should be considered one of America’s “greatest presidents” for his achievements so far despite the impeachment drive that in the end, will be viewed as a partisan attack similar to the Russia collusion charge, according to a New York Times best-selling historian and presidential adviser.
“Donald Trump should easily be ranked as one of America’s great presidents,” writes Doug Wead in his upcoming book, Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story Of His Presidency, a copy of which was shared with Secrets today.
In listing Trump’s efforts on the economy, in foreign policy, and presidential communications, Wead argued that the president’s legacy won’t be destroyed by impeachment because it showed that he was under Democratic attack from the start yet still accomplished his agenda.
“It is very possible that the preposterous Russian collusion story has successfully inoculated Donald Trump from any new scandals that the impeachment process can uncover. While Russian collusion was meant to be a knockout blow, it may, in the end, be his key to political survival,” wrote Wead, an adviser to both Bush presidencies and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.
In a note, he also told Secrets, “I am not saying that he won’t be impeached. Rather I am saying that impeachment will not be the scar on his legacy as it otherwise would be if it weren’t for the failed attempt to tar him with Russian collusion.”
Wead, the author of several historical books, was granted exclusive access to the White House as Trump’s official biographer. Inside, he witnessed the workings of the Oval Office and key aides, including Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
He has been the target of several pre-publication death threats that he said the FBI believes are from anti-Trump activists.
The book, published by Center Street and due for a Tuesday release, dismissed several false claims made about the Trump inner circle and highlighted the wins that much of the media has shoved aside in the coverage of Russian collusion, the Mueller report, and impeachment.
I have received multiple anonymous death threats that also targeted my children because of my new book, #InsideTrumpsWhiteHouse. @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/S4ZlY197Bb
— Doug Wead (@DougWead) November 20, 2019
Wead told Secrets, “based on the remarkable economy alone, Trump has been an outstanding president. Almost everything that social engineers and liberal politicians have wanted has come true for the poorest of the poor in our country and to every previous disenfranchised group of people. One must ask how he was able to see what every great economists in the world had missed? Was it luck? Was getting elected luck? Was creating jobs luck? Was he lucky in bringing back hostages that other presidents had left languishing in foreign prisons? Was defeating ISIS so easily, just luck?”
While it appears clear that House Democrats are pushing ahead with impeachment despite several polls showing less support for it, Wead took a longer view in arguing that Trump’s historical legacy will be good.
Citing the president’s economic record, Wead wrote, “Future historians who wipe away the dust of collective bias will see those numbers etched in stone and will be able to judge without contemporary emotion. If presidents are partly ranked as strong or weak based on their personal intelligence, then surely Donald Trump’s ability to see what the greatest economists in the world could not see is an example of remarkable insight.”
He even suggested that after Trump leaves office, Americans will one day wish he could return, as they have for other once scorned presidents, including George W. Bush. He suggested that one day cars will be adorned with bumper stickers that read, “Give us back our Trump.”
Wead quoted Kushner on that point. He wrote:
“Jared Kushner talked about that on that cold January night in 2019, when my wife and I visited him and Ivanka in their Georgetown home. The fireplace was ablaze, and Jared and Ivanka were on the couch opposite us. ‘There will come a day,’ Jared mused, ‘when people will miss him greatly. He goes for the big thing, and he gets it done. Nobody can keep up with the spirit in which he leads.”
