MEDIA WINNER: Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig The Washington Post this morning published an excerpt from an upcoming book that dives into the wild final moments of Donald Trump's presidency. I Alone Can Fix This is the highly anticipated book from Washington Post writers Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, who also wrote the best-selling book Very Stable Genius, which also detailed Trump’s White House inner workings and drama, not to mention Leonnig's Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service, with such revelations as the "no fatties" directive. The authors of the book make clear that “Most of the people interviewed agreed to speak candidly only on the condition of anonymity.” The details presented in the book were “based on hundreds of hours of interviews with more than 140 people, including the most senior Trump administration officials, friends and outside advisers to the 45th president.” President Joe Biden, of course, won the election in November of 2020, which appeared to take Trump and his inner circle by some level of surprise, to say the least. Just the details revealed in the excerpt alone were bonkers enough to cause a big reaction and drive a lot of eyeballs. Trump and the White House were utterly confident they’d “sealed the deal” on Election Day, for one example. "The mood in the West Wing was good. Some aides talked giddily of a landslide." Getting high on victory early just lead to even more pernicious states of denial among the believers. There was the rage and incensed demands made of Fox News by Trump after the Arizona call, Rudy Giuliani's ideas about claiming victory, and a lot more. The excerpt alone is a huge hit, talk of the town minute. Rucker and Leonnig have again caught the whirlwind of attention and the book is obviously going to be buzz for a while. That's a media win all around. |