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I don't need to tell anyone here that there is beginning to be a wave of 'insider accounts' contained in a whole handful of new books chronicling the Trump presidency.
Here are several that have been in the news within the last week. (plus, at the end of this list I include a quote (from 'I alone') from William Barr that seems to encapsulate a fairly common sentiment that I myself have heard from my uber-Conservative or even my GOP friends..
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“The strength of Landslide comes less from these stories and more from a coherent argument that Wolff, in partnership with his sources, makes about how we should understand the period between Nov. 3 and Jan. 20. Most quickly produced books about political events don’t do that.”
―Nicholas Lemann, The New York Times
Michael Wolff on Donald Trump’s Last Days (for Now)
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".....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 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, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.
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"I wanted to like this book. Bender did so many interviews for it – 150 with Trump and those connected to the campaign or administration. It's so difficult to organize all that into a smoothly flowing narrative, which he does. Also, it gets better when he gets to 2020, particularly with regard to George Floyd protests and Trump's disproportionate reaction to them. Maybe its more interesting because he's describing people around Trump who are more interesting and smarter than the campaign types. (Milley speaks for many when he tells Stephen Miller to "Shut the f- up.")"
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For readers looking for an objective evaluation of this President, it's almost impossible to find—but this book pulls it off. For people looking for the inside scoop, this book is perfect. From the infamous trip down the escalator to the crazy events in the White House briefing room, you hear the president's own voice as told by the best reporter on TV today.
I've never written an Amazon review before, but this book was worth it. The book arrived Wednesday morning and I finished it an hour ago. Couldn't put it down.
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And then the quoted conversation that, in my narrow world, confirmed what I have heard from friends, neighbors, and acquaintances.
To wit:
"Barr counsels him that “I feel like you are going to lose the election… I feel like you are actually losing touch with your own base…
“I have yet to meet anybody who supports you who hasn’t said to me, ‘We love the president, but would you please tell him to turn it back a bit?’… You are going to lose because there’s going to be enough people who otherwise would vote for you who are just tired of the acrimony, the pettiness, the punching down and picking a fight at every moment, and the apparent chaos, and they’re just going to say, ‘We’re tired of this shit.’…
“I think that if you wanted to you could walk into a second term, COVID and all. You could go down in history as an amazing president, and it’s yours for the taking. But it’s about you, and you’re turning off enough people to lose the election.”
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What William Barr is reported to have told Don Trump tracks closely with what Trump's own pollster, Tony Fabrizio, told him AFTER he had lost. To wit: people think you are untrustworthy, and incompetent.*
This has been linked-to, and discussed on this venue several times.
Here are several that have been in the news within the last week. (plus, at the end of this list I include a quote (from 'I alone') from William Barr that seems to encapsulate a fairly common sentiment that I myself have heard from my uber-Conservative or even my GOP friends..
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- LANDSLIDE
The Final Days of the Trump White House
By Michael Wolff
“The strength of Landslide comes less from these stories and more from a coherent argument that Wolff, in partnership with his sources, makes about how we should understand the period between Nov. 3 and Jan. 20. Most quickly produced books about political events don’t do that.”
―Nicholas Lemann, The New York Times
Michael Wolff on Donald Trump’s Last Days (for Now)
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- I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
by Carol Leonnig (Author), Philip Rucker (Author)
".....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 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, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.
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“Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost “
by Michael C. Bender (Author)
"I wanted to like this book. Bender did so many interviews for it – 150 with Trump and those connected to the campaign or administration. It's so difficult to organize all that into a smoothly flowing narrative, which he does. Also, it gets better when he gets to 2020, particularly with regard to George Floyd protests and Trump's disproportionate reaction to them. Maybe its more interesting because he's describing people around Trump who are more interesting and smarter than the campaign types. (Milley speaks for many when he tells Stephen Miller to "Shut the f- up.")"
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Front Row at the Trump Show
by Jonathan Karl (Author)
For readers looking for an objective evaluation of this President, it's almost impossible to find—but this book pulls it off. For people looking for the inside scoop, this book is perfect. From the infamous trip down the escalator to the crazy events in the White House briefing room, you hear the president's own voice as told by the best reporter on TV today.
I've never written an Amazon review before, but this book was worth it. The book arrived Wednesday morning and I finished it an hour ago. Couldn't put it down.
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And then the quoted conversation that, in my narrow world, confirmed what I have heard from friends, neighbors, and acquaintances.
To wit:
"Barr counsels him that “I feel like you are going to lose the election… I feel like you are actually losing touch with your own base…
“I have yet to meet anybody who supports you who hasn’t said to me, ‘We love the president, but would you please tell him to turn it back a bit?’… You are going to lose because there’s going to be enough people who otherwise would vote for you who are just tired of the acrimony, the pettiness, the punching down and picking a fight at every moment, and the apparent chaos, and they’re just going to say, ‘We’re tired of this shit.’…
“I think that if you wanted to you could walk into a second term, COVID and all. You could go down in history as an amazing president, and it’s yours for the taking. But it’s about you, and you’re turning off enough people to lose the election.”
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What William Barr is reported to have told Don Trump tracks closely with what Trump's own pollster, Tony Fabrizio, told him AFTER he had lost. To wit: people think you are untrustworthy, and incompetent.*
This has been linked-to, and discussed on this venue several times.
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