Donald Trump v. The United States
Inside the Struggle to Stop a President
(Sprache: Englisch)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER With unparalleled reporting, a Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter chronicles the clash between a president and the officials of his own government who tried to stop him.A meticulously reported volume that clearly benefits from the author s extraordinary access . . . [a] startling dissection of the Trump presidency. The New York Times
Donald Trump v. The United States tells the dramatic, high-stakes story of those who felt compelled to confront and try to contain the most powerful man in the world as he shredded norms and sought to expand his power. Michael S. Schmidt takes readers inside the defining events of the presidency, chronicles them up close, and records the clash between an increasingly emboldened president and those around him, who find themselves trying to thwart the president they had pledged to serve, unsure whether he is acting in the interest of the country, his ego, his family business, or Russia. Through their eyes and ears, we observe an epic struggle.
Drawing on secret FBI and White House documents and confidential sources inside federal law enforcement and the West Wing, Donald Trump v. The United States is vital journalism from a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter that records the shocking reality of a presidency like no other. It is a riveting contemporary history and a lasting account of just how fragile and vulnerable the institutions of American democracy really are.
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IRule of Law, Rule of Trump
August 1, 2018
One year, six months, and twelve days into the presidency
WASHINGTON, D.C. Just before 9:30 on a brutally humid summer night in Washington, I was in a dead sprint down Connecticut Avenue toward the White House, chasing after a man who had no idea I was trying to catch him.
The math, I figured, was simple: I had to cover three city blocks in about thirty seconds before the man reached the northwest gate of the White House grounds and passed through security screening into the eighteen-acre headquarters of the United States executive branch, safely out of reach. I had a fifty-fifty shot of getting to him.
It definitely occurred to me that it was ridiculous that I was running down the street like a cop chasing after a robber while wearing black dress shoes, jeans, and a sport jacket. But we d long moved beyond normal in the year and a half since Donald J. Trump had been sworn in as president of the United States and we began confronting the daily bewilderment and furor that came with him running the country. What was unfolding before us was more a rolling series of crises than a traditional presidency, and with every twist and turn it became clearer that the Trump era in America would be the story of our lives.
And so I ran in the dark after this man. Since I d started at The New York Times two months out of college as a clerk in the sports department, I had probably done stranger things in pursuit of a story. For one of my first big assignments, I tracked George Steinbrenner, the combustible owner of the New York Yankees, as he left the stadium and headed to the parking lot after games, aiming to capture a complaint about his club that would make a headline the next day. From there, I eventually took on a beat no one else wanted performance-enhancing drugs and had been hired as a full-time reporter. After four years, I left sports to spend a year in the Times Baghdad bureau, before
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being moved to the Washington bureau in 2012. I covered the Secret Service, the FBI, and the Defense Department. But now, having joined a team investigating the Trump White House following the 2016 election, none of my experiences prepared me for the sheer velocity and disorientation of covering this president.
A few months earlier, it had become clear there was an emerging existential threat to Trump s presidency. A team of investigators from a special counsel s office was bearing down on the White House, the president wasn t taking it well, and his volatility itself had become a matter of grave national importance. A president in trouble, whose conduct was so unpredictable, required good sourcing to understand. It pushed us to get better at cultivating and protecting our sources, so I had recently found myself chauffeuring a key witness to the chaos around the Washington metro area. At all hours of the day, I would pick the source up at airports and train stations in my mother s fourteen-year-old Volvo station wagon for secret meetings in the only place where I could have the source s undivided attention and guarantee him that, as we snaked aimlessly through Washington s leafy neighborhoods and talked, no one would see us together or hear what we were saying.
Now, as for the man I was chasing down the street, he had never been a source, but I wanted badly to know everything he knew about President Trump and the inside dynamics of his administration. The man had been in the room for many of the events being investigated by the special counsel, though his significance in the unfolding saga went far beyond just passively witnessing extraordinary, possibly historic, or even criminal events in real time. Based on my reporting, the man two blocks in front of me striding back to the Executive Mansion, Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, was m
A few months earlier, it had become clear there was an emerging existential threat to Trump s presidency. A team of investigators from a special counsel s office was bearing down on the White House, the president wasn t taking it well, and his volatility itself had become a matter of grave national importance. A president in trouble, whose conduct was so unpredictable, required good sourcing to understand. It pushed us to get better at cultivating and protecting our sources, so I had recently found myself chauffeuring a key witness to the chaos around the Washington metro area. At all hours of the day, I would pick the source up at airports and train stations in my mother s fourteen-year-old Volvo station wagon for secret meetings in the only place where I could have the source s undivided attention and guarantee him that, as we snaked aimlessly through Washington s leafy neighborhoods and talked, no one would see us together or hear what we were saying.
Now, as for the man I was chasing down the street, he had never been a source, but I wanted badly to know everything he knew about President Trump and the inside dynamics of his administration. The man had been in the room for many of the events being investigated by the special counsel, though his significance in the unfolding saga went far beyond just passively witnessing extraordinary, possibly historic, or even criminal events in real time. Based on my reporting, the man two blocks in front of me striding back to the Executive Mansion, Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, was m
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Autoren-Porträt von Michael S. Schmidt
Michael S. Schmidt is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington correspondent for The New York Times. Over his fifteen years at the Times, he has covered the investigations of the Trump presidency, the Pentagon, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the war in Iraq. He started his career at The New York Times as a clerk answering the phones on the foreign desk before becoming a sports reporter covering performance-enhancing drugs and legal issues. He is a graduate of Lafayette College.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Michael S. Schmidt
- 2020, 448 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Random House
- ISBN-10: 1984854666
- ISBN-13: 9781984854667
- Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2020
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Englisch
Pressezitat
[Michael S.] Schmidt chronicles how the professionals around the president tried to bring order to the White House and to keep Trump within the bounds of the law. . . . A powerful accounting of . . . lawlessness and chaos. The Washington Post
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