I read the whole festschrift and didn't see any negativity such as doomsayers are finding. Every Trump quote agrees with his public December position as playing close to the chest yet fully aware of HIS OWN executive order. His cagey questions are good contingency analysis and testing his advisors.

If he had ordered an immediate military recount of six counties that might've won the objective of taking the election, but we all know he wanted to do much more than that and he is giving evidence he still will.

This only confirms that Byrne, like most of us, hasn't seen everything. If Cipollone is correct and Trump's verbal appointment and clearance of Powell was sufficient, then her difficulty getting an office or pass shouldn't matter. Maybe she is indeed the Special Counsel and her mammoth 270-page binder is the publishable Special Counsel report and all the paperwork has been done.

One more thing: this happened on the 18th, exactly 45 days after the election. Sound familiar?