The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in
office, by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning
reporters and authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Very Stable Genius
The
true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a
disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. 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,
Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling
presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.
Focused
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. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put
his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. 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. 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. 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. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig
explain and expose exactly who enabled—and who foiled—Trump as he sought
desperately to cling to power.
A 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.
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