Summary of Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker's I Alone Can Fix It

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Get the Summary of Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker's I Alone Can Fix It in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.

Focused on Trump and the key players around him - the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members - Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. 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. 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. 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. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled - and who foiled - Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Oct 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638156536

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Summary of Carol Leonnig & Philip Rucker’s I Alone Can Fix It

Contents

Overview

A Lethal Presidency

The Advent of a New Plague

Public Health Emergency

Trump’s Victories

The Crisis Exacerbates

Trump’s Attacks on Science

Operation Warp Speed

The Murder of George Floyd

Trump’s Interventions in the Medical Field

The Tulsa Rally

The Coronavirus Effect

Grave Missteps

The Abraham Accords

Presidential Debates

The Trumps Catch the Virus

Trump Resumes His Campaign

Trump Begins to Lose

The Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine

A Series of Republican Defeats

Trump’s Stubbornness

The End of the Trump Era

Authors’ Style

Authors’ Perspective

Overview

In I Alone Can Fix It (2021), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig deliver an authoritative behind-the-scenes account of Donald Trump’s last year in office and reveal what really happened in the White House during the catastrophic 2020 election campaign. Rucker and Leonnig expose the inner workings of a broken and incompetent administration that failed to control the coronavirus, resulting in the deaths of more than half a million Americans.

Their sources were in the room as Trump repeatedly placed his own benefit ahead of the country’s good. These eyewitnesses to history describe his reluctance to take the coronavirus danger seriously, even to the extent of infecting himself and others around him. This is the story of