I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
by Carol Leonnig
View on GoodreadsPut your own political survival first through a pandemic, mass protests and a lost election, and you get the year Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reconstruct. Built from about 140 interviews, Trump included, it follows officials inside the government who worked to head off a constitutional breakdown.
Core ideas
- Pandemic first: The administration's COVID-19 response keeps running into Trump's resistance to public-health measures.
- Troops at home: During the George Floyd protests Trump considered deploying the military domestically, and Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley becomes a central figure.
- Never conceded: The baseless fraud claims build toward the January 6 riot, and even after leaving office Trump insisted to the authors that he had won.
Published2021
Pages476
ISBN9780593298947
ReadAug 2024
