Rucker and Leonnig report their one-hour appointment with him stretched to 2 1/2 as Trump continued to insist he had actually won the election, a performance they largely replay in the epilogue to I Alone Can Fix It. Trump has apparently done all he could to drive home his version of events. In addition to this much-anticipated Rucker-Leonnig sequel, bookstores are stocking a widely discussed account of events that followed the 2020 election by Michael Bender of The Wall Street Journal and a third "tell-all" volume about the final days of Trump's term from magazine writer Michael Wolff. "He sought to curate history."īy haranguing all who will listen, in interviews and rally rants, Trump is still demonstrating his abiding and preternatural confidence in his own persuasiveness.īut as a curator of his own story, Trump has his work cut out for him. Yet here was Trump in March, sitting in his cavernous lobby with reporters who had already written one highly critical account of his presidency ( A Very Stable Genius), which he had denounced as "a work of fiction." Having refused interview requests for that previous book, Trump was "quick to agree to our request this time," according to the authors. And They Fight To Make Sense Of The Chaos Politics The 1st Wave Of Post-Trump Books Arrives.
And in the weeks since their work went to press, we have also seen C-SPAN release a survey of 142 historians who rated Trump three slots from the bottom among all presidents in history.
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They might have added that Trump's full four-year average of approval in the Gallup was 41%, 4 points lower than any other president since polling began. And the two reporters note that simple fact in their new book on Trump's last year in office: I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. That straight-faced assertion, as recounted by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, came from a man who had never scored above 46% in the Gallup Poll in his first three years in office. "If George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president," Trump told them, "I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me." He told them that before COVID-19 came to the U.S. Ten weeks after leaving the White House, former President Donald Trump hosted two reporters from The Washington Post at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion, club and base of operation. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker (Apparently, no one had thought to give the agents in the vice-presidential detail access to the shelter.I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Page by page and detail by implacable detail, she walks us through a catalogue of Secret Service blunders: its failure to prevent a near-fatal assassination attempt on George Wallace during his 1972 presidential campaign that left the Alabama governor paralyzed from the waist down its acquiescence in President Richard Nixon’s illegal wiretapping schemes its inability to stop would-be assassin John Hinckley from walking within 15 feet of President Ronald Reagan and opening fire its failure to keep interlopers and flying bullets out of the White House on multiple occasions during the Bush and Obama presidencies and its near-disastrous lack of preparation on 9/11, leaving Vice President Dick Cheney stranded outside the emergency shelter beneath the White House as a hijacked plane entered Washington airspace. Leonnig, a Washington Post journalist with three Pulitzers under her belt, is thorough and unsparing in her account.
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