A Very Stable Genius
Donald J. Trump's Testing of America
(Sprache: Englisch)
The instant #1 bestseller, now updated with new reporting.
This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump s shambolic tenure in office to date."
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Washington Post...
This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump s shambolic tenure in office to date."
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Washington Post...
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The instant #1 bestseller, now updated with new reporting.This taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump s shambolic tenure in office to date."
- Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump s presidency
I alone can fix it. So proclaimed Donald J. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty not to the country, but to the president himself and Trump s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power.
With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.
A peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America s democracy and its common heart as a nation.
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OneBuilding Blocks
On November 9, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump began to staff his administration. Because he never truly expected to win, he was unprepared. Trump prioritized loyalty above all, and so, instinctively, he and his family knew whom to knight first: Michael Flynn.
Flynn was a retired lieutenant general and had been a respected intelligence officer. Yet his former colleagues had shunned him for a bill of particulars that included Islamophobic rhetoric, coziness with Russia and other foreign adversaries, and a reliance on flimsy facts and dubious assertions. None of that mattered to Trump.
During the campaign, Flynn was one of the few men who had ever worn stars on their shoulders willing to promote Trump. His allegiance was so intense that he had led an anti-Hillary Clinton chant of "Lock her up" at the Republican National Convention, which mortified his military and intelligence brethren, who believed he was leveraging his status as a decorated former military officer to fuel society's more dangerous elements. Yet this endeared him to Trump. Flynn made himself indispensable to Trump, whispering in his ear that he couldn't trust most intelligence officials but could trust Flynn. He was crafty enough to ingratiate himself with Trump's family, too-including Jared Kushner, the candidate's ambitious son-in-law who had no experience in politics or foreign affairs, yet styled himself as Trump's political strategist and interlocutor with foreign governments.
The day after the election, the flattering consigliere got his reward at a transition meeting on the twenty-sixth floor of Trump Tower. Ivanka Trump, the president-elect's elder daughter, and her husband, Kushner, who together helped oversee some of the high-level appointments in the new administration, made clear to Flynn that he could choose any job he
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"Oh, General Flynn, how loyal you've been to my father," Ivanka said in her distinctive breathy voice, adding something to the effect of "What do you want to do?"
Don McGahn frowned with some surprise. He had been the Trump campaign's lawyer and was now in line to become White House counsel. He had nothing personal against Flynn. He didn't really know him. But others in the room noticed McGahn's displeasure, which seemed to say, "Is this really how we're going to do this?"
Some in the room could hardly believe people were being appointed to key jobs so indiscriminately and irresponsibly. As Steve Bannon, the campaign's chief executive officer who also was joining the administration, saw it, Ivanka was the princess with the sword, just tapping Flynn on the shoulder. McGahn and Bannon, hardly allies, shared the belief that this was a recipe for missteps and, quite possibly, disaster.
The haphazard and dysfunctional transition was a harbinger for the administration. Trump placed a premium on branding and image at the expense of fundamental competence. He and many of his advisers had no experience with public service, and therefore little regard for its ethics or norms. Rather than hewing to an ideological agenda, the entire operation was guided by Trump's instincts and whims.
Flynn's dream was to be national security adviser. Kushner, who was envisioning for himself a West Wing role as a shadow secretary of state-interacting with foreign leaders, negotiating Middle East peace, and running point on such key relationships as China and Mexico-calculated that installing Flynn as national security adviser would create for himself the freedom to maneuver as he pleased. Just like that, Flynn's wish was granted. It would take another eight days for his appointment to be announced, but everything was set in motion on November 9.
Nobody bothered to vet Flynn. There was no review of his tenure as a U.S. milita
"Oh, General Flynn, how loyal you've been to my father," Ivanka said in her distinctive breathy voice, adding something to the effect of "What do you want to do?"
Don McGahn frowned with some surprise. He had been the Trump campaign's lawyer and was now in line to become White House counsel. He had nothing personal against Flynn. He didn't really know him. But others in the room noticed McGahn's displeasure, which seemed to say, "Is this really how we're going to do this?"
Some in the room could hardly believe people were being appointed to key jobs so indiscriminately and irresponsibly. As Steve Bannon, the campaign's chief executive officer who also was joining the administration, saw it, Ivanka was the princess with the sword, just tapping Flynn on the shoulder. McGahn and Bannon, hardly allies, shared the belief that this was a recipe for missteps and, quite possibly, disaster.
The haphazard and dysfunctional transition was a harbinger for the administration. Trump placed a premium on branding and image at the expense of fundamental competence. He and many of his advisers had no experience with public service, and therefore little regard for its ethics or norms. Rather than hewing to an ideological agenda, the entire operation was guided by Trump's instincts and whims.
Flynn's dream was to be national security adviser. Kushner, who was envisioning for himself a West Wing role as a shadow secretary of state-interacting with foreign leaders, negotiating Middle East peace, and running point on such key relationships as China and Mexico-calculated that installing Flynn as national security adviser would create for himself the freedom to maneuver as he pleased. Just like that, Flynn's wish was granted. It would take another eight days for his appointment to be announced, but everything was set in motion on November 9.
Nobody bothered to vet Flynn. There was no review of his tenure as a U.S. milita
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Autoren-Porträt von Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig
Carol Leonnig is a national investigative reporter at The Washington Post, where she has worked since 2000 and covers Donald Trump's presidency and other subjects. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on security failures and misconduct inside the Secret Service. She also was part of the Post teams awarded Pulitzers in 2017, for reporting on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, and in 2014, for revealing the U.S. government's secret, broad surveillance of Americans. Leonnig is also an on-air contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at The Washington Post, leading its coverage of President Trump and his administration. He and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Rucker joined the Post in 2005 and previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House and the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns. He serves as an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, and graduated from Yale University with a degree in history.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Philip Rucker , Carol Leonnig
- 2021, 512 Seiten, Maße: 13,9 x 21,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN-10: 1984877518
- ISBN-13: 9781984877512
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.02.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
[Rucker and Leonnig] are meticulous journalists, and this taut and terrifying book is among the most closely observed accounts of Donald J. Trump s shambolic tenure in office to date. . . . Their newspaper s ominous, love-it-or-hate-it motto is Democracy Dies in Darkness. A Very Stable Genius flicks the lights on from its first pages. Dwight Garner, New York TimesRichly sourced and highly readable It is not just another Trump tell-all or third-party confessional. It is unsettling, not salacious. Lloyd Green, The Guardian
Imagine, for a moment, a high-octane courtroom prosecutor summing up for the jury a case built on the vivid testimony of multiple eye-witnesses . You could scarcely ask for more capable advocates. Leonnig won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the U.S. Secret Service in 2015, then joined Rucker and others on a team awarded the Pulitzer for stories on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Their new, collaborative account walks readers step by step through the first 30 months or so of a presidency like no other. They leave little doubt that they and many of their sources regard that presidency as an unmitigated and deepening disaster a threat to American government as we have known it. Whatever may happen to that impeachment effort in the weeks and months ahead, it creates a moment of intermission in the Trump saga and a chance to consider how the landscape has already been altered by this president. A Very Stable Genius offers a harrowing companion narrative to be read during intermission. Ron Elving, NPR
"A Very Stable Genius is the most reliably detailed narrative yet of just how chaotic and paranoid this White House is." Air Mail
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