"I Alone Can Fix It. Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year."
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker follow up their bestselling book, A Very Stable Genius, with this harrowing look at Trump's final year. Bill really loved it and he thinks you will too. You can buy it here on Amazon.
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| 1:04.4 | Hello, friends and neighbors. It's the Bill PressPod. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome back. |
| 1:13.2 | And welcome back to Washington Post reporters, Carol, and Phil Rucker. We last visited with Phil and Carol on publication of their book, |
| 1:20.1 | A Very Stable Genius, a great book about the first three years of the Trump administration, |
| 1:26.3 | which Trump attacked, by the way, as pure fiction. |
| 1:30.8 | Well, now Carolyn Phil are back with a blockbuster new book about the last year of the Trump |
| 1:36.2 | administration called I Alone Can Fix It. Believe me, if you're listening to this podcast, you'd like |
| 1:43.3 | politics. So this is a book you must buy and must read. |
| 1:48.1 | On one hand, it'll scare the hell out of you. On the other hand, it'll restore your faith in democracy and our ability to survive. |
| 1:57.6 | Because as they tell the story, 2020 was not just as chaotic and dangerous as we all remember it. |
| 2:05.2 | It was far, far worse. |
| 2:08.0 | We came that close to losing it all. |
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