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An interview with Michael Wolff: Inside the mind of Donald Trump

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🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The forty fifth president of the US, Donald Trump, will be talked about forever. Now, Michael Wolff in his new book: Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, exposes the chaos behind the scenes at the White House during President Trump's time in office. What did he learn when he sat down with him?


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Guest: Michael Wolff, journalist and author of Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency. 


Host: Manveen Rana.


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0:00.0

Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past

0:12.4

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0:30.6

This has been an incredible four years. We've accomplished so much together.

0:41.2

There had been fierce speculation about whether the military would have to remove Donald Trump

0:46.9

from the White House. But when he left, addressing a small crowd of his staff and family,

0:52.9

before boarding the presidential plane down to Florida, it was more with a whimper than a bang.

0:58.8

I want to thank all of the great people of Washington DC, all of the people that we

1:03.9

worked with to put this miracle together. So have a good life. We will see you soon.

1:10.4

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

1:14.8

Nobody believed that was the last we'd see of Donald Trump. But nobody knew what would come next.

1:21.3

He has continued to persist in this belief that the election was stolen. That is derangement.

1:29.0

One man did more than most to lift the lid on the chaos of the Trump White House in a devastating

1:36.4

series of books. The first, an international bestseller prompted a barrage of legal threats.

1:43.7

Lawyers representing President Trump are threatening a lawsuit to prevent the publication of Michael

1:48.8

Wolf's new book, Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House. So it was quite a shock when Michael

1:55.4

Wolf, one of Donald Trump's most hated writers, was invited down to Mar-a-Lago to interview

2:02.5

the man himself. You're listening to stories of our times from the times in the Sunday times.

2:08.5

I'm Manvin Rana. Today, Michael Wolf, Inside the Mind of Donald Trump.

2:18.7

Michael Wolf's first two books, Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House,

2:33.9

and Siege, Trump Under Fire, made headlines around the world for their revelations about the chaos

2:41.5

unfolding in the Oval Office. They also made headlines for drawing some fire and fury of their

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