“A deeply-reported look at President Donald Trump and his chaotic administration. The book belongs in every library seeking to record the major forces and personalities shaping the 21st century.” - New York Journal of Books An essential read for anyone seriously concerned with the fate of democracy in the United States. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled-and who foiled-Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.Ī classic and heart-racing work of investigative reporting, this book is destined to be read and studied by citizens and historians alike for decades to come. This is a story of a nation sabotaged-economically, medically, and politically-by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump’s supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously-even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.įocused on Trump and the key players around him-the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members- Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. “Bracing new revelations.” – Brian Williams “Blockbuster new reporting.” – Nicolle Wallace He basked in compliments by Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, son Don Jr.’s girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle - along with Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw’s remark that life in Palm Beach was obviously agreeing with him.The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of A Very Stable Genius. The former president at one point asked to stop the tape so he could make harder attacks with “overreaching meanness” against perceived adversaries. one-hour taped interview that ultimately ran over two and one-half hours in the lobby as club members arrived for dinner. Some sources found speaking about their experiences “cathartic,” Leonnig said, as they thought Trump was putting American lives in peril.Īn unexpected insight from Rucker was that Trump granted the writers an interview at Mar-a-Lago, post-presidency, at which he thought of himself as still commander-in-chief. Many Trump high-level appointees had been fired. The authors shared that there were some overlapping sources.
The capacity crowd on the second floor learned that Leonnig and Rucker had not intended to write a second book, finished on record time (four months), but felt compelled when the aftermath of the 2020 election affirmed the need. This past year has been so bizarre that it is hard to imagine that the last Q&A Cafe, held 18 months ago, also featured the same writers’ “A Very Stable Genius” - same subject, also a bestseller. Carol Joynt welcomed back Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winners Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker to a July 29 Q&A luncheon at The George Town Club to discuss their latest Donald Trump bestseller “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J.
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