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>> yeah, thats right. listen, we all know the story of how chaotic this administration was over four years. and you dont need another book to do that. what this one does and what i was shocked in the reporting of this is how dangerous the people around trump thought he had become for the country in his desperation to hold on to power. and that applies with covid as well. he was reckless with his own health and the people around him. and this is the litmus test he put on staffers. after meadows p...

Haberman recommends this piece (and shes writing a book herself): This is a really good account of Milley’s real-time fears on military action, which were not illegal nuke launches but domestic use of the military after a summer of Trump calling for the insurrection act in cities and a potential strike on Iran @sbg1https://t.co/0dTymLMdAS — Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 16, 2021 When folks try to say that Jan 6 wasn’t that bad, recall the reaction of the top officials in the governmen...

Five years on, as America digests a string of bombshell revelations about the last days of Trump’s presidency pulled from a string of new books, Russia’s judgment seems born out. Taken together, these Trump books show just how close the US came to disaster amid stark warnings from military leaders and almost unprecedented fears of an attempted coup. They also revealed new and shocking claims about Trump and his inner circle, including praise for Hitler and an apparent desire to have p...

‘A madman with millions of followers’: what the new Trump books tell us Martin Pengelly in Washington © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Brandon Bell/Getty Images Editor’s note: The opinions in this article are the author’s, as published by our content partner, and do not represent the views of MSN or Microsoft. This week, the Guardian reported that what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents describe Donald Trump as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unb...

And it seems fitting. all right, cara swisher, we are out of time for this segment but we will have you back. great speaking with you. good to see you, again. and hope to talk to you soon. >> thanks so much. coming up, an explosive, new book reveals the fears of donald trumps inner circle about exactly what trump would try to do to hold onto power. the author, michael bender, will join me live next. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." well, would ya look at that! it was an accident. i was— s...

White house journal reporter -- white house reporter, michael bender. and i am joined by the author, now. michael, great to see you. thanks so much for doing this. and your reporting shows just how desperate donald trump was to try to stay in power. to try to overturn the election. he had help. you know, coming from officials that were still working with people, like rudy giuliani. advisers on the outside. did you uncover anything that just stands out to you, more than anything else? that gets t...

Her claims about election fraud were so outlandish that no thinking person could have actually believed her. and i -- i detail this scene in the interview in the book. and -- and he kind of went through all of the emotions there. # denied that she said it. suggested that it might be some sort of legal-boilerplate. and then, ended this long rant with me by saying to make -- making clear that she never actually represented him. so it was interesting moment in the interview, for sure. >> didnt mind...

>> well, ive interviewed him in my role as a reporter for "the wall street journal" in trump tower, in air force one, in the oval office over the course of his four years in the white house and two campaigns. and post-presidency i went down twice to mar-a-lago, and hes a bit in transition right now, or at least he was then, but he was, you know, hes golfing a lot. and hes bringing down a lot of authors and a lot of writers as he gets ready to get back onto the rally scene and, you know, start sw...

Save this story for later. The last time that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with President Donald Trump was on January 3, 2021. The subject of the Sunday-afternoon meeting, at the White House, was Iran’s nuclear program. For the past several months, Milley had been engaged in an alarmed effort to insure that Trump did not embark on a military conflict with Iran as part of his quixotic campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election and remain i...

Getty Images By Jeremy Herb, CNN In December 2018, then-President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would nominate Gen. Mark Milley as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Milley was not the consensus pick, and then-Defense Secretary James Mattis objected to his selection. But Trump wanted the square jawed, barrel-chested general whom he saw as straight from central casting as his top military officer. Nearly three years later, Milley has transformed from Trump’s hand-picked general...