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In 'A Warning,' An Invisible Hand Rings A Somber Alarm

President Trump, we are told in this soon-to-be-published book, has destroyed the guardrails thoughtful people tried to erect around him. Further, he has banished nearly all those thoughtful people.
<em>A Warning,</em> by Anonymous

The book jacket for A Warning is appropriately stark. The title and "Anonymous" loom up in high contrast black-and-white, with "A Senior Trump Administration Official" lurking just below — in red.

On its first page, in a bid to make news, the book says disillusionment was so great in the first two years of President Trump's administration that "top advisors and cabinet-level officials contemplated ... resigning en masse to call attention to Trump's misconduct and erratic leadership."

They did not, we are told, because they feared it would only make things worse. So they stayed, and sure enough, things got worse.

How much worse? We are told the president has no interest in learning enough about how the

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