Trump’s Final Year with Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
There are some stunning revelations coming out of the new blockbuster book by Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker, “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year.” If you thought you knew how bad some things during that final year of the Trump presidency were, this book will surprise you with what it tells us about the things that even those of us who watched the presidency closely did not know.
David Priess sat down with Leonnig, a national investigative reporter at the Washington Post and author of “Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service,” and Rucker, the senior White House correspondent at the Washington Post and coauthor with Carol of the book, “A Very Stable Genius,” to talk about what they discovered in their book and their reporting. They discussed not only a few of the headline scoops, but also some lesser reported stories in their book, ranging from Trump's briefing before the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, to Trump's attitude toward potential 2024 running mates, to what we've learned about the behavior of people around the president near the end of the administration, like Mark Milley, Bill Barr, Mark Meadows and Mike Pompeo.
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| 0:57.4 | LawFair podcast July 26th 2021. If you found yourself on a deserted island this |
| 1:05.0 | past week, you'd be one of the few who hadn't heard about some of the stunning |
| 1:09.7 | revelations coming out of the new blockbuster book by Carol Lenig and Phil Rucker. |
| 1:14.4 | I alone can fix it. Donald J. Trump's catastrophic final year. If you thought |
| 1:21.1 | you knew how bad some things during that final year of the Trump presidency |
| 1:25.3 | were, this book is surprising you and many people with what it tells us about |
| 1:30.4 | the things that even those of us who watched the presidency closely did not |
| 1:35.2 | know. I sat down with Carol, a national investigative reporter at the |
| 1:40.4 | Washington Post and author of Zero Fail, the rise and fall of the secret |
| 1:44.9 | service, and with Phil, the senior White House correspondent at the Washington |
| 1:49.0 | Post and co-author with Carol of the book A Very Stable Genius to talk about |
| 1:54.5 | what they discovered in their book and their reporting on it. We discussed not |
| 1:59.2 | only a few of the headline scoops but also some lesser reported stories in |
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