Summary of Jonathan Karl’s Betrayal

By IRB Media

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Book Preview:Donald Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, is regarded as one of the most influential but chaotic presidents in history. What was his downfall really like?

Political journalist Jonathan Karl wrote Betrayal  as a documentation of Trump’s final days as president. He knew Trump better than any other reporter in the White House, and had a front-row seat to the final showdown of his presidency. Karl details the events leading up to the 2020 election and subsequent attack on the US Capitol by angry Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. From crazy loyal personnel to alleged treachery, Karl explores it all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Feb 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669345237

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Summary of Jonathan Karl’s Betrayal

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Donald Trump, the forty-fifth president of the United States, is regarded as one of the most influential but chaotic presidents in history. What was his downfall really like?

Political journalist Jonathan Karl wrote Betrayal  as a documentation of Trump’s final days as president. He knew Trump better than any other reporter in the White House, and had a front-row seat to the final showdown of his presidency. Karl details the events leading up to the 2020 election and subsequent attack on the US Capitol by angry Trump supporters on January 6, 2021. From crazy loyal personnel to alleged treachery, Karl explores it all.

Big Promotion

On February 20, 2020, as the COVID-19 outbreak was starting to look more menacing, President Donald Trump still was not concerned with the worldwide spread of the virus. He instead met with Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney to put Johnny McEntee in charge of the Presidential Personnel Office.  McEntee was Trump’s body guy who carried his bags wherever he would go, yet he was about to be promoted to a position that made him responsible for hiring presidential appointees through the federal government.

According to Trump, McEntee was the most fit for the job, as he was the most loyal to him. McEntee had been fired from  a previous job  at the White House due to illegal gambling, but he came back 20 months later, in January 2020, when Trump was going through his first impeachment trial. Within 48 hours of the vote against impeachment, 70 holdovers from the administration of President Barack Obama were fired from the National Security Council, and McEntee had a huge role in the decision.

The Growing Pandemic

On March  4, 2020, journalist Jonathan Karl sat down for a meeting with Trump to discuss the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, an event Trump had skipped for the past three years, after declaring the free press as the enemy of the people. Karl was not eager to invite him. Trump joked about shaking hands due to the growing severity of the pandemic, and assured Karl that he would get back to him about the