This book should get a solid 4 1/2 stars, but since that rating isn't available, I'll give it a generous 5, only because over 99% of the book deserves it. But before we get to the book's upside, here are the glaring mistakes:
The author writes, on page 23, that Trump in 2016 "declined to disavow former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke," and that "he said there were 'very fine people' who participated in a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia." These are technically accurate statements but grossly misleading when taken in context, as I outlined in my 2020 book Trumped-Up Charges!.
I devote a full chapter to each falsehood. Regarding Duke, Trump disavowed him numerous times before and after an incident in which he says he didn't hear the question correctly – blaming an earpiece through which he heard it as faulty – but which the media took as an indication that Trump defended white supremacists. Again, note that Trump disavowed Duke numerous times before and after that incident.
Trump allegedly referring to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville as "very fine people" was the lie on which Joe Biden based his 2020 run for the presidency. As is now widely known (though I was one of the first to disclose it), Trump's use of "very fine people" was to describe people on both sides of the debate of whether Confederate statues should be removed from public places or retained for their historical value - it wasn't to describe white supremacists with sheets and torches.
The author makes one more notable mistake, this one by omission. In referring to January 6, he says Trump told the crowd to "fight like hell" (p. 13), which he did, but the author fails to point out that immediately thereafter Trump pointed to Rudy Giuliani - then 76 years old and diminutive and frail-looking - as an example of someone who "fights like hell." Clearly, Trump meant “fight” in terms of not giving up, not physically scaling walls and windows and breaking into the Capitol. Moreover, the author fails to include that Trump specifically told the attendees to go outside the Capitol and "PEACEFULLY and PATRIOTICALLY make your voices heard." One wonders: did the author neglect to do the research to uncover these important details, or were these pesky truths intentionally shelved because they thwarted the momentum of his narrative?
As for the remaining 99% of the book, it is a well-told gripping read, full of interesting tidbits from Trump's choice of shoes to is process for selecting a running mate. Having just lived through all of it, I can easily say "yeah, that's how it happened." If only he had not made the above mistakes, there would be no reason to wonder whether some of the other information that we don't know for certain is accurate.
Nonetheless, I recommend this book as an important contribution to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign.
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