Summary of Jonathan Martin & Alexander Burns's This Will Not Pass

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#1 On March 6, Trump publicly stated that he would leave the decision about the Grand Princess to others, but added that he didn’t need the infection numbers to double because of one ship. Newsom had no political capital to waste on outrage.

#2 Trump was not a president suited to bringing the country together in a crisis. He had no plan for crushing the coronavirus, and even in the midst of the pandemic, he did not have a general theory of how to handle a public health crisis.

#3 The coronavirus pandemic shattered Trump’s claims of a easy reelection in 2020. Unemployment rates shot up to nearly 15 percent by April. The president needed to come up with a new plan, a plan to win a difficult campaign.

#4 Trump’s court of sycophants was a source of constant disgust for more level-headed Republicans. The president summoned the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, to the White House in 2019 and instructed his aides to walk him through the presidential polling. McCarthy was the most ingratiating major figure in the Republican Party.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 13, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521131

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On March 6, Trump publicly stated that he would leave the decision about the Grand Princess to others, but added that he didn’t need the infection numbers to double because of one ship. Newsom had no political capital to waste on outrage.

#2

Trump was not a president suited to bringing the country together in a crisis. He had no plan for crushing the coronavirus, and even in the midst of the pandemic, he did not have a general theory of how to handle a public health crisis.

#3

The coronavirus pandemic shattered Trump’s claims of a easy reelection in 2020. Unemployment rates shot up to nearly 15 percent by April. The president needed to come up with a new plan, a plan to win a difficult campaign.

#4

Trump’s court of sycophants was a source of constant disgust for more level-headed Republicans. The president summoned the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, to the White House in 2019 and instructed his aides to walk him through the presidential polling. McCarthy was the most ingratiating major figure in the Republican Party.

#5

McCarthy was always trying to be in the in-crowd, even when he was rising in the Republican Party. He had a habit of briefing Trump on his favorite congressional recruits, and Trump would veer between issuing edicts of intimidation and playing the class clown.

#6

Trump’s operating style took on new significance during the coronavirus epidemic. While many governors tried to connect with Trump and his advisers on a personal level, Trump was more interested in helping people he got along with.

#7

Trump wanted the country opened up by Easter Sunday, April 12, which would mean a total lockdown of public events. Trump then considered a federal quarantine on the states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to treat the virus as a blue-state problem.

#8

Trump publicly sided with protesters in Michigan, Virginia, and Minnesota who were defying the governors’ public-health policies. Trump also publicly called for the liberation of Michigan, Virginia, and Minnesota, which caused protests to escalate.

#9

Trump had a very difficult time with Georgia governor Brian Kemp, who was allowing mask-wearing businesses to reopen. Trump did not like Kemp for political reasons, and his plans for dealing with the virus were often met with skepticism.

#10

As the spring progressed, Trump’s interest in managing the pandemic waned. He stopped attending weekly calls with the nation’s governors, and instead left that job to Vice President Mike Pence.

#11

Trump’s view of the country wasdivided into Trump country and everyone else, and this permeated the administration.

#12

Biden had been declared the winner of the primary a week before the phone call,