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Thank You for Your Servitude is an unflinching account of the moral rout of a major American political party. Author Mark Leibovich tracks the transformation of Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and Lindsey Graham into enablers for Donald Trump. What would these politicos do to preserve their place in the sun?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookRix
• Release date: Dec 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9783755426479

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Thank You for Your Servitude

A Summary of Mark Leibovich’s book

Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission

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SUMMARY PART 1

This part is a summary of eight chapters of the original book, from chapter one to chapter eight.

LAST CALL AT THE TRUMP HOTEL

December 2020

The atrium lounge of the Trump International Hotel had become the social center of Washington, at least Donald Trump's Sodom and Gomorrah version of it. The scent of abandonment had been creeping in since Election Day. First, the coronavirus ruined the business, and then the hotelier himself finished the job. There is a comfort level at the hotel, Giuliani said. The grand mezzanine offered them a relatively safe space in an otherwise hostile city.

Don Jr. and Eric would be nursing drinks, with those stiff Trump smiles and simultaneously bloated and angular cheeks. They were lucid enough to remember the dead-eyed, chubby-cheeked South Carolinian who served as John McCain's proud sidekick. Graham: Being hooked on Trump made him relevant, and he had to keep his dealer happy. I could get Trump on the phone faster than any of his staff, McCarthy said. He admitted that it would be hard to give that up. Was it enough to turn the Republican Party into an authoritarian griftocracy or yourself into an accomplice to a national trauma?

THE PROBLEM

August 2015–March 2016

Everyone had a theory about why it was their turn to be chosen for the Republican presidential nomination; here are just a few of the best ones. Ruben Navarrette: Ted Cruz's unpopularity lent him credibility as an irritant. He was happy to play the turd in the Republican punch bowl. Trump dismissed Jeb Bush as low energy, a brutally effective description for a candidate whose logo included an exclamation