Landslide
The Final Days of the Trump Presidency
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- 25,00 kr
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- 25,00 kr
Publisher Description
'First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three' Guardian
'Cruel, unforgiving, muckracking, scandalous . . . Michael Wolff concludes his Trump trilogy - with the best book' Telegraph
'Wolff is the shrewdest chronicler of Trump' Sunday Times
Politics has given us some shocking and confounding moments but none have come close to the careening final days of Donald Trump's presidency: the surreal stage management of his re-election campaign, his audacious election challenge, the harrowing mayhem of the storming of the Capitol and the buffoonery of the second impeachment trial. But what was really going on in the inner sanctum of the White House during these calamitous events? What did the president and his dwindling cadre of loyalists actually believe? And what were they planning?
Drawing on an exclusive and wide range of sources who took part in or witnessed Trump's closing moments, Michael Wolff finds the Oval Office more chaotic and bizarre than ever before, a kind of Star Wars bar scene. At all times of the day, Trump, hunched behind the Resolute desk, is surrounded by schemers and unqualified sycophants who spoon-feed him the 'alternative facts' he hungers to hear - about COVID-19, Black Lives Matter protests, and, most of all, his chance of winning re-election.
In this extraordinary telling of a unique moment in history, Wolff gives us front-row seats as Trump's circle of plotters is whittled down to the most enabling and the least qualified - and the president pushes the bounds of political convention, entertaining the idea of martial law and balking at calling off the insurrectionist mob that threatens the hallowed seat of democracy itself.
Michael Wolff pulled back the curtain on the Trump presidency with his globally bestselling blockbuster Fire and Fury. Now, in Landslide, he closes the door with a final, astonishingly candid tale.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results were more of a chaotic "shit show" than a coordinated "Big Lie," according to this colorful if myopic account of the months leading up to Donald Trump's exit from the White House. In his third book about the Trump presidency (after Fire and Fury and Siege), journalist Wolff paints a scathing portrait of campaign staffers too fearful of Trump's ire to deliver actual poll results, a conspiracy-minded president wavering between overconfidence and deep suspicions that Democrats were rigging the election against him, and a motley collection of congressional "Dead Enders" (Mo Brooks, Jim Jordan) and oft-inebriated supporting players (Rudy Giuliani, Jeanine Pirro) willing to undermine democracy for a turn in the spotlight. Wolff traces the idea that Vice President Mike Pence could reject the election results and certify Trump as the winner to conservative constitutional lawyer John Eastman, who dismissed his own theory as "not likely," and depicts a one-on-one meeting, on the eve of the January 6 Capitol riot, where Trump pushed Pence to take action ("Do you want to be a patriot or a pussy?"). But while Wolff's anecdotes astound, he fails to put these events in a larger context, leaving the question of why Trump's "ham-handed" disinformation campaign convinced so many Americans unanswered. The result is a dismaying yet unenlightening rehash of recent events.
