Summary of The Fight of His Life by Chris Whipple: Inside Joe Biden's White House

By Willie M. Joseph

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The Fight of His Life is a revelatory, news-making look at how President Joe Biden and his seasoned team have battled to achieve their agenda. Prize-winning journalist Chris Whipple gained unprecedented access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Jan 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215747582

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INTRODUCTION

He traveled to Moscow with a message for Vladimir Putin: Prepare for a Russian blitzkrieg on Ukraine. The CIA's pilfering of Putin's plan was an extraordinary intelligence coup, almost as remarkable as the Cuban Missile Crisis. CIA Director John Brennan met with President Obama in the Oval Office to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Robert Parry reports from inside Vladimir Putin's inner circle on what the Russian leader knew about the U.S. invasion plan and sanctions that would result if he went ahead. Vladimir Putin believed he had a favorable landscape for shaping Ukraine's orientation.

Joe Biden felt Donald Trump was giving evil a safe harbor. This was dangerous, said Mike Donilon, one of Biden's closest advisers. The consequences would be catastrophic for the world. Joe Biden's life had been defined by adversity, tragedy, and bad luck. He'd lost his wife and infant daughter in a car crash; his son Beau to a brain tumor; two campaigns for the presidential nomination. Now evil forces like those he'd seen in Charlottesville were threatening the heart of Europe.

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WHAT WILL YOU DO IF HE LOSES?

In April 2020, Joe Biden was preparing for a transfer of power. Presidential transitions don't begin upon the election of a new president; they start almost a year before. Biden's team needed to start so early because of herculean task of selecting incoming members of his team. The 2020 presidential transition was the most contentious and dangerous since the Civil War. In his bid to remain in power, Donald Trump tried to decapitate the Justice Department.

The task would fall to a little-known White House sta er who worked steps away from the Oval O ce. The 2020 presidential transition became a sub rosa operation, carried out under Trump's nose. Liddell was a scally conservative but socially moderate Republican. The president raged about a rigged election and threw up roadblocks, but the wheels of the transition kept turning. Thousands of Americans were dying of COVID-19; the economy had cratered; cities were besieged by protesters; and the war in Afghanistan was bogged down in an endless con ict.

When the coronavirus arrived on U.S. soil, Donald Trump denied that there was a pandemic; then he tried to wish it away. Obama's team had prepared a sixty-page playbook for dealing with pandemics, but Trump's team ignored it. In March 2020, Vice President Mike Pence asked Jared Kushner if he could help with the COVID response. Kushner knew nothing about epidemiology or public health but was undaunted. The slim suit crowd worked out of the West Wing basement and at the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

In April 2020, the number of COVID-19 cases had exceeded one million, with sixty-three thousand lives lost, more than the country su ered during the entire Vietnam War. The silence was deafening, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith said.

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YOU NEED TO LAND THIS PLANE

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