“This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides. He saw parallels between Trump’s rhetoric about election fraud and Adolf Hitler’s insistence to his followers at the Nuremberg rallies that he was both a victim and their savior. He described to aides that he kept having a stomach-churning feeling that some of the worrisome early stages of 20th-century fascism in Germany were replaying in 21st-century America. A student of history, Milley saw Trump as a classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff already had been on edge. Milley was watching on television from his office as well, deeply disturbed by the rhetoric.
Sund and his team at Capitol Police headquarters turned up the volume a bit and heard the thundering applause. The first daughter told aides that she decided to attend only because she had hoped to calm the president and help keep the event on an even keel.Īt noon, Trump took the stage. Rally organizers repeatedly had asked her to give a speech, but she declined. Ivanka Trump did not appear onstage, however. “You, who curates your image, you, who looks down on many of the rest of us, what are you doing there? Honestly,” a Trump adviser later remarked. Yet the first daughter, who typically was just as careful as the first lady about when and where she appeared in public, attended, which surprised White House officials. The first lady was busy that morning overseeing a scheduled photo shoot of rugs and other decor in the White House residence. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled-and who foiled-Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.
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Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. Narrated by Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker, and January LaVoy. Melania Trump had chosen not to attend the “Save America” rally, telling aides that she was not sure it was a good idea for her to participate. Trumps Catastrophic Final Year audiobook written by Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker. Ivanka Trump was in the tent, too, tending to her father. A classic and heart-racing work of investigative reporting, this book is destined to be read and studied by citizens and historians alike for decades to come.After realizing she was being recorded, she began dancing to the music and implored Trump’s supporters to “have the courage to do the right thing - fight!” With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled-and who foiled-Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power. This is a story of a nation sabotaged-economically, medically, and politically-by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump's supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously-even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election.
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