Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. It's been about a year since supporters of

President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election. The images of that

day were to a lot of people, a shocking reminder of how fragile this thing we call democracy can be.

But the machinations of the day were put in motion months before January 6th. Jonathan Carl, the White House correspondent for ABC,

wrote a book recently called Betrayal. In it, he talks about what was going on in the waning

days of the Trump administration when pretty much anyone who wasn't fully on board

the Trump train was fired. And in this interview with NPR Steve Inskeep, Carl explains that anyone

who wasn't serving as a yes man to the president after the election wasn't just betraying

the president. Their lack of support was a sin. In the U.S., national security news can feel far away from daily life.

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Despite all that's been written about the last days of the Trump administration,

new books keep offering new details.

Jonathan Carl's book, Betrayal, reveals a lot about Trump's final days,

and many of its key points come from on-the-record interviews and documents. One theme of the book

is Trump's purge of officials in the months before he tried to overturn the 2020 election.

No disloyalty of the president would be tolerated. No dissent would be tolerated. So I believe that in some ways,

he ensured that when Donald Trump, in those final weeks of his administration, those final

couple of months, when he took his darkest turn, there was nobody around to rein him in

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