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Off the wall?

- Stephen King Talks JFK, Oscars Diversity, and ‘Bulletproof’ Donald Trump, TheDailyBeast.com, February 2, 2016.

3. On May 12th, while Donald Trump, Paul Ryan, and the Republican National Committee chairman, Reince Priebus, met at R.N.C. headquarters, in Washington, Representative Darrell Issa tried to figure out how to leave the building. The sidewalk in front was blocked by protesters and reporters, and Issa, who had recently endorsed Trump, expected to be harassed by them. “I wish you had a back door,” Issa said, according to a reporter inside who overheard the remark.

Issa, who is sixty-two, is one of the more colorful members of Congress. An Ohio native who was accused two times of car theft in the nineteen-seventies (Issa has denied the charges), he moved to Southern California in the mid-eighties and became a car-alarm magnate. After years as a major Republican donor, he won his congressional seat, in a conservative district near San Diego, in 2000. He is currently the wealthiest member of the House.

Issa has had a topsy-turvy relationship with Trump. The congressman, who spent four months campaigning for Marco Rubio, said in February that if Trump were the Republican nominee, he might endanger all Republicans running for reëlection. Appearing on CNN, Issa compared Trump to Todd Akin, the former Republican congressman who lost his 2017 bid to unseat the Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill after claiming that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely become pregnant. Issa said, “He was the wrong candidate, and it wasn’t until later that they realized that somebody who wasn’t thinking about what they said, who was saying things that were off the wall, brought down the Party.” He went on, “Donald Trump could be a national Todd Akin if our party doesn’t coalesce behind a single candidate.”