- Rage
- is
- an
- unprecedented
- and
- intimate
- tour
- de
- force
- of
- new
- reporting
- on
- the
- Trump
- presidency
- facing
- a
- global
- pandemic,
- economic
- disaster
- and
- racial
- unrest.Woodward,
- the
- #1
- international
- bestselling
- author
- of
- Fear:
- Trump
- in
- the
- White
- House,
- has
- uncovered
- the
- precise
- moment
- the
- president
- was
- warned
- that
- the
- Covid-19
- epidemic
- would
- be
- the
- biggest
- national
- security
- threat
- to
- his
- presidency.
- In
- dramatic
- detail,
- Woodward
- takes
- readers
- into
- the
- Oval
- Office
- as
- Trump’s
- head
- pops
- up
- when
- he
- is
- told
- in
- January
- 2020
- that
- the
- pandemic
- could
- reach
- the
- scale
- of
- the
- 1918
- Spanish
- Flu
- that
- killed
- 675,000
- Americans.In
- 17
- on-the-record
- interviews
- with
- Woodward
- over
- seven
- volatile
- months—an
- utterly
- vivid
- window
- into
- Trump’s
- mind—the
- president
- provides
- a
- self-portrait
- that
- is
- part
- denial
- and
- part
- combative
- interchange
- mixed
- with
- surprising
- moments
- of
- doubt
- as
- he
- glimpses
- the
- perils
- in
- the
- presidency
- and
- what
- he
- calls
- the
- “dynamite
- behind
- every
- door.”At
- key
- decision
- points,
- Rage
- shows
- how
- Trump’s
- responses
- to
- the
- crises
- of
- 2020
- were
- rooted
- in
- the
- instincts,
- habits
- and
- style
- he
- developed
- during
- his
- first
- three
- years
- as
- president.Revisiting
- the
- earliest
- days
- of
- the
- Trump
- presidency,
- Rage
- reveals
- how
- Secretary
- of
- Defense
- James
- Mattis,
- Secretary
- of
- State
- Rex
- Tillerson
- and
- Director
- of
- National
- Intelligence
- Dan
- Coats
- struggled
- to
- keep
- the
- country
- safe
- as
- the
- president
- dismantled
- any
- semblance
- of
- collegial
- national
- security
- decision
- making.Rage
- draws
- from
- hundreds
- of
- hours
- of
- interviews
- with
- firsthand
- witnesses
- as
- well
- as
- participants’
- notes,
- emails,
- diaries,
- calendars
- and
- confidential
- documents.Woodward
- obtained
- 25
- never-seen
- personal
- letters
- exchanged
- between
- Trump
- and
- North
- Korean
- leader
- Kim
- Jong
- Un,
- who
- describes
- the
- bond
- between
- the
- two
- leaders
- as
- out
- of
- a
- “fantasy
- film.”Trump
- insists
- to
- Woodward
- he
- will
- triumph
- over
- Covid-19
- and
- the
- economic
- calamity.
- “Don’t
- worry
- about
- it,
- Bob.
- Okay?”
- Trump
- told
- the
- author
- in
- July.
- “Don’t
- worry
- about
- it.
- We’ll
- get
- to
- do
- another
- book.
- You’ll
- find
- I
- was right.”
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