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Vijay47: The one part of this shocking news that is confusing and just doesn’t add up is the fact that despite Mahathir’s demand that Thomas resign his one-day tenure as the attorney-general, Thomas stayed on at his post.

He was compelled to finally step down only when Mahathir betrayed the very government that he himself had set up and Harapan became another victim in Mahathir’s long line of victims.

With the prime minister asking for his head, how did Thomas survive for 20 months? Perhaps we will learn the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth when the book hits the stands on Jan 30.

But when we consider Mahathir’s role in the entire plot, no one will be surprised at the deceit itself, perhaps surprised only at lack of logic which seems to accompany the aged former prime minister with devastating frequency of late.

The absurdity of Mahathir’s resignation demand becomes more evident when we reduce to basic simplicity the entire sequence from the establishment of the Harapan government to the almost inevitable stab-in-the-back from Mahathir’s dagger.

Mahathir submits to the Agong only one name for AG - Thomas. That must mean that Mahathir meant business, he would brook no protest from any quarter. The king grants his assent.

Yet the very next day, Mahathir wants Thomas to resign, quoting savage opposition from the Malays as the reason for the demand. The berserk Malay response occurred within a day of the AG’s appointment?

Did Mahathir, with his doctor’s finger deep on the Malay pulse, believe that the Malays, after two generations of being mollycoddled and having all their whims and fancies served to them on a silver platter, would accept a non-Malay in any position of responsibility? He did not believe an Indian-Christian as attorney-general would spook the Malays?

So why did he submit Thomas’ name? And right after the Agong agreed, why did Mahathir ask for Tommy to step down?

The other issue that has not yet surfaced is Lim Guan Eng. Surely the Malays would have been equally amok at his appointment as finance minister. Why did Mahathir not ask him to resign? Or did he?

We look forward to your book also, Lim.


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