Tim Murtaugh, communications director for Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, went from hitting “rock bottom” with an alcohol addiction to overcoming it and flying on Air Force One four years later, Murtaugh said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday, detailing his new book .
Murtaugh briefly described his story in the book, which is described in great detail in the book, he claimed, is” not like any political guide you or your viewers have always read.”
” It’s about politics, yeah, there are a lot of stories from inside the Trump 2020 campaign — a lot of stories that have never been published. But it’s also about my decades- longer struggle with drinking” and his account of forgiveness, he said.
” I go through it and how I began drinking and all of that and how it led up to the real rock bottom for me]which ] was waking up in a jail cell in Fairfax County, Virginia, on May 16, 2015, and realizing that if I did n’t get myself straightened out, right that minute, I was gonna go to jail for an awfully long time”, Murtaugh said.
” I was facing genuine legal risk. … That’s the last time that I took a drink of alcohol on May 16, 2015, and less than four years later, I was flying on Air Force One with President Trump”, he said. But, I believe a remarkable turn from a prison cell to flying on Air Force One. He continued, explaining that when he was in therapy many times, he loved to read ebooks from persons who had gone through it.” That’s the way the manner I looked at it. Those, he said, helped him when he was struggling, so he was inspired to write his own.
They told their own stories, and many of them are but immoral that they are funny, but they also reveal how they overcame obstacles and survived. And those books helped me so much when I was really, really struggling”, he said, expressing wish that his guide can do the same for someone else.
Additionally, Murtaugh said he is “living resistant” that those with the exact struggles can beat them.
” I know a lot of people, and I consider myself lucky because of how I was,” I said. I had two DUIs. I once spent five days for the first time in prison. I spent ten days in jail for the next one, and I had 80 time suspended. And when I woke up in jail that day because I was on probation for my next DUI, I was concerned about those suspended 80 time. And if I had been convicted of that, of that drunk in public cost, I would have violated supervision. I would have had to go to jail for three weeks, it would have been the conclusion of all. I may have lost my job when I was working for Lou Barletta, who should have fired me some, some days”, he said, praising he people who stood by him and did not give up on him, including his partner and former Rep. Lou Barletta.
” I thank Secretary Sonny Perdue for his communications directorship, which I was appointed at the beginning of the Trump administration. I told him when I went to the plan that this was all that happened in my history, but I had to be truthful and disclose to my future employer what they will discover when they conduct the background search, was that right? But I told him, I told President Trump when I went to the promotion and said,’ If you’re gonna hire me, then this is what you’re going to discover.’ And he claimed that he enjoys great atonement tales. He likes a nice comeback story,'” he said.
” But — but I count myself happy for having made it through. Many people who are in the same circumstance as I was in do not succeed. They die. Actually, many persons pass away. And you’re best. It is, in my opinion, a widespread issue in general. So many people have come up to me and people that I’ve known for years who I did n’t know they themselves had an alcohol problem”, Murtaugh said, adding that he wrote the book because” I know that I really struggled and I needed the help of other people, and I needed just encouragement to believe, like you’re saying, that it is possible … that maybe it was n’t too late for me, ]and ] it’s not too late for somebody else”, he said, emphasizing that the book is his story, providing a little background to the title of the book as well, noting it is a baseball reference.
” I do come from a sports community. And when my dad would leave the house every day to go baseball practice, he would yell at me,” Hey, swing hard in case you hit it.” Best. He believed he was interesting. He continued,” I took that phrase that has stuck with me my entire life, and to me, it’s a very good idea to use for everything you encounter in life,” he said, noting how his” surreal” activities have been working on the Trump campaign.
” And I think some of those stories will appeal to people who like plan elections,” he continued.
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