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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics and now the Joe Biden presidency.

We will be looking at how a 78-year-old president will change America we'll be asking if normalcy, which is what he promised to bring, has returned to American politics?

The answer, of course, is no.

I'm joined today by Michael Wolfe, who is a great journalist and the author of a number of books, including most recently a trilogy of Trump books. There was Fire and Fury, which was an international bestseller.

There was Siege. And finally, there is Landslide, the final days of the Trump presidency,

which is out now. Michael, I've just read it.

It's a very exciting book. I think it's the best of the three, actually,

because the denouement is so insane.

And it reminded me of something I think we spoke about before

when you came on this podcast,

which is that I think you cotton on very early

in about 2016, 2015, that the

journalists were missing the key element of the Trump story, which was that it's just a

brilliant, brilliant story, and that they were so busy clutching pearls and worrying about the future

of democracy and sort of virtue signalling to use an overused word word that they weren't doing their job properly and you obviously saw an opening

to do your job and and you took it is that a fair thing to say um yeah i'm not sure that i

would exactly put it like that but certainly Donald trump was my kind of character. So I, I mean, sometimes I think

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