WEEK 475 / 583 — The Letter
THURSDAY: THE CROWN. GAUZE ON HIS EAR, HE TELLS THE HALL, QUIETLY, ABOUT THE FAIRGROUND.
THEN THE SHOWMAN RETURNS, AND THE BALLOONS COME DOWN.
FRIDAY: A WARTIME PRESIDENT CALLS TO CONGRATULATE HIM. THE NUMBERS ARE ENORMOUS.
Big TV RATINGS last night for the Republican Convention, the best and most successful in history! Fox led the way. MSNBC was dead last. Four Great Days!!!
SUNDAY, 1:46 P.M. A LETTER, POSTED TO THE WORLD.
THE OLD KING QUITS THE FIELD.
THE ANSWER COMES DOWN FROM THE TOWER WITHIN THE HOUR.
“Crooked Joe Biden was not fit to run for President, and is certainly not fit to serve - And never was!…”
THE OPPONENT HE BUILT THE WHOLE COMEBACK AGAINST IS GONE.
It’s not over! Tomorrow Crooked Joe Biden’s going to wake up and forget that he dropped out of the race today!
ACROSS THE FIELD, A NEW CHALLENGER RISES. CHAPTER 50 CLOSES.
TO BE CONTINUED →
This week in the saga
Thursday night in Milwaukee the convention crowns him: gauze on his ear, he takes the stage alone and for ten quiet minutes tells the hall about the fairground before the showman returns. Friday he gloats over the ratings and takes a congratulatory call from a wartime president. Then Sunday, 1:46 in the afternoon: a letter, posted to the world — the old king quits the field. No speech, no cameras; a page with a signature. Within the hour the answer comes down from the tower: not fit to run, not fit to serve, never was. By nightfall he is already laughing that the old man will wake tomorrow having forgotten he quit. The opponent he built the whole comeback against is gone — and across the field a new challenger rises. CHAPTER 50 CLOSES.
Readers' Corner
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