He has this kind of savage energy and it comes through in some of the recordings I’ve released. “I’ve been a reporter almost 50 years and I never had an experience like this,” he told the Guardian, discussing his calls with the president. Woodward said then he had needed time to check if Trump’s claims were true. The reporter was criticised in some quarters for keeping such knowledge for his book, which appeared when nearly 200,000 in the US had died. In his last Trump outing, Rage, Woodward scored a huge coup with tape recordings of Trump admitting he had played down the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak. Many reviewers have said the second wave of Trump books failed to include much that was not already known. The current crop of Trump books, also including Frankly, We Did Win This Election by Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal and Landslide, Michael Wolff’s third Trump exposé, have sold strongly but not as well as the first crop which Wolff kicked off with Fire and Fury in January 2018.
“This classic study of Washington takes readers deep inside the Trump White House, the Biden White House, the 2020 presidential campaign and the Pentagon and Congress with vivid, eyewitness accounts of what really happened.” His new book with Costa, Simon & Schuster said, is based on more than 200 interviews as well as diaries, secret orders, phone call transcripts, emails and other government records, all producing “a spellbinding and definitive portrait of a nation on the brink”. The authors of a rash of other Trump books which came out this summer and dominated bestseller lists may disagree with that judgment – not least the Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, who also co-wrote a hit, I Alone Can Fix It – but Woodward is undoubtedly a heavyweight in the field. In Crime in Progress, Simpson and Fritsch tell their story for the first time - a tale of the high-stakes pursuit of one of the biggest, most important stories of our time - no matter the costs.Announcing the title of the new book, which will be published on 21 September, Simon & Schuster said it would “reveal for the first time” how Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and other issues represented “far more than just a domestic political crisis”. At the time, Fusion GPS was just a 10-person consulting firm tucked away above a Starbucks near Dupont Circle, but it would soon be thrust into the center of the biggest news story on the planet - a story that would lead to accusations of witch hunts, a relentless campaign of persecution by congressional Republicans, bizarre conspiracy theories, lawsuits by Russian oligarchs, and the Mueller report. On January 10, 2017, the Steele dossier broke into public view, and the Trump-Russia story reached escape velocity. Those memos made their way to US intelligence agencies, and then to President Barack Obama and President-elect Trump.
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He would produce a series of memos - which collectively became known as the Steele dossier - that raised deeply alarming questions about the nature of Trump’s ties to a hostile foreign power. To help them make sense of what they were seeing, Simpson and Fritsch engaged the services of a former British intelligence agent and Russia expert named Christopher Steele.
What began as a march through a mind-boggling trove of lawsuits, bankruptcies, and sketchy overseas projects soon took a darker turn: The deeper Fusion dug, the more it began to notice names that Simpson and Fritsch had come across during their days covering Russian corruption - and the clearer it became that the focus of Fusion’s research going forward would be Trump’s entanglements with Russia. In the fall of 2015, they were hired to look into the finances of Donald Trump. “I’ve read kind of all the books on this subject.and this is the one you want to read.” (Rachel Maddow)īefore Ukraine, before impeachment: This is the never-before-told inside story of the high-stakes, four-year-long investigation into Donald Trump’s Russia ties - culminating in the Steele dossier, and sparking the Mueller report - from the founders of political opposition research company Fusion GPS.įusion GPS was founded in 2010 by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, two former reporters at The Wall Street Journal who decided to abandon the struggling news business and use their reporting skills to conduct open-source investigations for businesses and law firms - and opposition research for political candidates.
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