![]() ![]() ![]() Graham, though a byword for toadyism, often reins Trump in Jared Kushner emerges as the real power in the West Wing, “highly competent but often shockingly misguided in his assessments” Trump admires tyrants, longs for their unbridled power, resents the law and those who enforce it, and is quick to betray even his closest advisers and, of course, Trump is beholden to Putin. The narrative often requires reading between the lines. Seventeen interviews with the sitting president inform this book, as well as extensive digging that yields not so much news as confirmation: Trump has survived his ineptitude because the majority of Congressional Republicans go along with the madness because they “had made a political survival decision” to do so-and surrendered their party to him. The underlying news, however, is that Trump participated in this book, unlike in the first, convinced by Lindsey Graham that Woodward would give him a fair shake. His excuse that he didn’t want to cause a panic doesn’t fly given that he trades in fear and division. The big news from veteran reporter Woodward’s follow-up to Fear has been widely reported: Trump was fully aware at the beginning of 2020 that a pandemic loomed and chose to downplay it, causing an untold number of deaths and crippling the economy. That thing in the air that is deadlier than even your “strenuous flus”? Trump knew-and did nothing about it. ![]()
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