Mark Leibovich details the price of blind loyalty under Donald Trump in new book

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🗓️ 18 July 2022

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As the House's committee hearings on Jan. 6 continue, today's episode offers some context from The Atlantic reporter Mark Leibovich, who has a new book out this month titled Thank You For Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission. He sits down with Juana Summers to talk about the price of blind loyalty under the Trump administration, and how that affected the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's NPR's book of the day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. Mark Leibovic is one of those old pro-Washington
0:08.9	reporters. He's been in the game for decades, writing profiles of the movers and shakers of D.C.
0:15.2	And he's out with a new book called Thank You for Your Servitude, Donald Trump's Washington,
0:19.8	and the Price of Submission.
0:21.6	It's not a Trump book per se, but about the politicians in power right now who bend over backwards
0:27.9	to kiss his ring and stay in President Trump's good graces. And there's a turn of phrase
0:33.1	Leibovic uses repeatedly to describe these guys, that they're in on the joke. And in this interview with NPR's Juana Summers, Leibovic uses repeatedly to describe these guys, that they're in on the joke.
0:38.1	And in this interview with NPR's Juana Summers, Leibovic talks about that wide gap
0:43.0	between what these politicians say in private versus what they say in public.
0:48.6	In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.
0:53.4	Distant wars, murky conflicts, diplomacy behind closed doors.
0:57.9	On our new show, Sources and Methods.
1:00.0	NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people,
1:03.8	helping you understand why distant events matter here at home.
1:07.6	Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:13.3	Donald Trump has been teasing he plans to run for president in 2024.
1:18.0	The first time he ran for president, his fellow Republicans, well, they were not so welcoming.
1:22.9	He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious, bigot.
1:26.6	We are not going to turn over the conservative movement to a con artist who is telling
1:30.8	this man is a pathological liar.
1:33.4	The man is utterly amoral.
1:35.1	Morality does not exist for him.
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