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The Question That Looms Above the Trump Presidency

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Michael Schmidt's new book "Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President" is one of the required reads of this moment in our history. It gets deep inside the effort to protect the president as the Russia investigation closed in around him. But it also underscores what that investigation did not uncover. Indeed the central question remains: What explains Trump's behavior toward Russia during the campaign in 2016 and ever since. We discuss the book and this question with Michael in a riveting one-on-one that you will not want to miss. Join us. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi and welcome to a special edition of Deep State Radio, one of our special book podcasts where we're getting to sit down with

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some of the leading authors of big books these days.

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And we are very pleased to be joined by Michael Schmidt, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington

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Correspondent for the New York Times, who has a new book out called Donald Trump

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versus the United States inside the struggle to stop a president.

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And you know, there are about 1,200 books

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that have been published on Trump and the Trump era and there is no reason to own or read all of them.

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But some of them you need to own and you need to read.

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And I am very confident that Michael's book,

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which is really excellent and breaks a lot of new ground,

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is one of those books that is a must read and a must have.

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So thanks very much for joining us here today, Michael.

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Thanks for having me.

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