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It exposes critical moments and decisions during the pandemic, backed by verified audio tapes and facts, making it a must-read for anyone engaged in contemporary political discourse. ## Description Bob Woodward’s new book, 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.” Review: Dynamite behind every door - The more I think about it, the more this book gets to me. The conversations Woodward has recorded absolutely blow my mind. While this book is not as engaging as Disloyal by Cohen was, writing-wise, it more than makes up for it in the sheer amount of data and detailed observations from those around the president. This isn’t Watergate type investigating, but it’s thorough and instructive. You can tell it’s written by a seasoned journalist. I’m a life-long Republican who read Rage because I’m looking for more data on Trump. I am spending so much time internally debating if I can in good conscience vote for Trump simply to stay loyal to the Republican party. I make up my mind to vote for someone else, swing back and tell myself I’d be supporting the party – not Trump – if I vote for him, and the pendulum starts its swing back again. There are things that I really like about the Republican party and things that I don’t like. A major sticking-point at the moment is that they nominated Trump for reelection. I still cannot wrap my mind around that. Anyway, I’d recently read Disloyal by Michael Cohen, which reinforced my belief, developed over the last 8 or 9 months, that there is something not quite right with President Trump. His actions as reported in the news and his tweets have been simply bizarre. The inconsistencies and contradictions in his narrative, the self-centeredness and self-promoting, the lies, the seeming lack of accurate recall, the level of hate and rage leveled at people who were recently praised, it’s all strangely familiar. I’m one of the caregivers for my dad-in-law, who suffers from narcissism, Parkinsonism, and dementia, among other things, and Trump’s and my dad-in-law’s behaviors are weirdly and alarmingly alike. But I wanted more data since I can’t order an in-depth cognitive competency assessment for Trump. (Perhaps we can start a change dot org petition for cognitive testing and an MRI of his brain to rule out physical causes?) I felt that Bob Woodward, with his journalistic training, might possibly have a more balanced accounting given all the interviews he did gathering background for this book. I didn’t expect him to be totally unbiased, and I’m sure he wasn’t. But I did expect him to report the facts and give accurate quotes from recorded interviews, and he seems to have done that. I was a bit upset over the reveal a few days ago that Woodward knew Trump was taking the virus seriously in private, but minimizing it to the American people and had not reported that at the time, but I’d already preordered the book and committed myself mentally to reading it. I wondered if Woodward withheld that information to sell more books later, vying for another Pulitzer. I have no clue. (Woodward does have a comment about not being focused on that at the time.) Trump seems to have cognitive issues, and yet, it is really hard for me to step across party lines. I have voted Republican since the year I tromped through the snow in New Hampshire with other college students campaigning for Reagan and worked a press conference held for him on my university’s campus. This will probably the first general election that I do not vote for the Republican candidate. Truthfully, I don’t particularly like Biden, either. He’s a professional politician who’s run for president multiple times since the 80’s. That’s not a rousing endorsement in my book. (Please, people, give us someone new and idealistic.) And yet, he’s the lesser evil in my eyes at the moment. (And, no, I’m not saying he’s evil. That’s an expression.) Frankly, I want new parties or no parties or some change in the system that encourages new blood and better candidates or lets us choose new candidates if we don’t like the ones that we are offered. (Yes, I know I’m ranting.) Trump has serious cognitive issues as well based on his bizarre utterances. Some instances of him acting as if he had no idea of his previous conversations include when he told his intelligence heads to hold a briefing and then interrogated them the next day wondering why they had done that. Coats had to tell Trump, “because you told us to.” Not to mention recently Trump thought that simple cognitive test was hard and was confused enough that he thought that acing it meant that he was very intelligent. I can attest from watching my dad that a person can have serious cognitive deficits and still ace that test easily. The smarter you are, the longer you can fool doctors who only do the minimum testing. I’m not going to rehash the book, except to include some quotes below. The major takeaway from Rage is more testimony about Trump handling people, situations, and the global and national virus outbreak by spurning the advice of the experts he hired, disparaging those very experts, and doing things his way: impromptu, uninformed, and aimed almost totally at his own reelection. Due to Rage (and also Disloyal) I’m convinced that Trump has always been a conniving, amoral narcissist that Woodward has tried to represent honestly. His conclusion matches what Cohen implies: “Trump is the wrong man for the job.” Some quotes from Rage: “And in an interview with President Trump on March 19, six weeks before I learned of O’Brien’s and Pottinger’s warnings, the president said his statements in the early weeks of the virus had been deliberately designed to not draw attention to it. ‘I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told me. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.’” “‘And I think he’s going to have it in good shape,’ Trump said, ‘but you know, it’s a very tricky situation.’ What made it ‘tricky’? ‘It goes through air,’ Trump said. ‘That’s always tougher than the touch. You don’t have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.” "“Look,” Trump said, “when you’re running a country it’s full of surprises. There’s dynamite behind every door.” Years ago, I had once heard a similar expression used by military forces to describe the hazards and nerve-racking emotions of house-to-house searches in a violent combat zone. I was surprised at this “dynamite behind every door” language from Trump. Instead of being his usual upbeat, cheerleading or angry self, the president sounded foreboding, even unconfident with a touch of unexpected fatalism." “‘There’s dynamite behind every door’ seemed the most self-aware statement about the jeopardy, pressures and responsibilities of the presidency I had heard Trump make in public or private. Yet the unexpected headline from the call was also his detailed knowledge of the virus and his description of it as so deadly so early in February, more than a month before it began to engulf him, his presidency and the United States. And so at odds with his public tone.” “Decision by tweet, often without warning to those charged with executing his policies, was one of the biggest sticks of dynamite behind the door.” “On January 28, 2020, when Trump’s national security adviser and his deputy warned Trump that the virus would be—not might be, but would be—the biggest national security threat to his presidency, the leadership clock had to be reset. It was a detailed forecast, supported by evidence and experience that unfortunately turned out to be correct. Presidents are the executive branch. There was a duty to warn. To listen, to plan, and to take care.” “At the next intelligence briefing, Trump blew up in a rage and began to chew them all out. What was that briefing? he asked, apparently upset about all the focus on Russia. “Why’d you do that?” “Because we were told to do that by you,” Coats said.” “For nearly 50 years, I have written about nine presidents from Nixon to Trump—20 percent of the 45 U.S. presidents. A president must be willing to share the worst with the people, the bad news with the good. All presidents have a large obligation to inform, warn, protect, to define goals and the true national interest. It should be a truth-telling response to the world, especially in crisis. Trump has, instead, enshrined personal impulse as a governing principle of his presidency.” “When his performance as president is taken in its entirety, I can only reach one conclusion: Trump is the wrong man for the job.” Review: Woodward’s “Rage” delivers on all levels - Bob Woodward’s is THE superstar of the insider presidential politics genre. This book, “Rage”, brilliantly shows why. His writing covers 9 presidents, from Nixon to Trump. As I see it if anyone has perspective and an eye to modern presidential history, this journalist is it. Woodward’s previous book about the Trump presidency, “Fear”, didn’t include interviews with the President as either Trump or his staff stonewalled interview requests to speak directly to Trump. Yet, Woodward’s reputation and gravitas isn’t something to be ignored, and Trump wasn’t happy when “Fear” came out and he wasn’t part of it. Whatever one thinks of Trump, he does have a certain genius for self-promotion — living by the mantra that the only bad publicity is no publicity at all. Trump didn’t make the mistake of ignoring Woodward with this book. He granted Woodward 18 interviews over an 8 months in 9 hours of conversations (which the President knew were recorded on tape or notes). Woodward interviewed many current and past insiders in the Trump administration, among them it seems were Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, Dan Coats, and Jared Kushner, as well as insiders who spoke under “deep cover” meaning their words could be used but only anonymously, a standard and understandable practice in this type of book. Yet, what makes “Rage” unique among insider tell-alls is the President’s explicit participation and his approval for others to do the same. That is Woodward’s genius, getting people comfortable enough to open up and tell their story. This is the first book to explore Trump’s relationship with Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator. Woodward had access to 27 letters Trump and Kim exchanged over their bizarre relationship. Reading the gushing letters, especially those coming from Kim, was oddly uncomfortable, yet Trump took great pride in calling them to Woodward’s attention, and perhaps deservedly so because of the historic implications. Despite the thrill of the promise of their meetings, nothing came to pass with their negotiations. While Trump notes with some sense of accmplishment, which Woodward acknowledges, that there hasn’t been war between the US and North Korea, there hasn’t been much else either. In addition, “Rage” is the first insider look into the COVID-19 pandemic response of the Trump administration. The Trump interviews happened between December 2019 to July 2020 as the pandemic unfolded. The President shocked Woodward in early February by telling him how dangerous and contagious the virus was, in very knowledgeable terms, while publicly Trump was telling the people the virus was minor, under control, and would disappear by April (2020). As I was finishing reading this book, the sad and shocking (yet not surprising) announcement that the President, his wife, and many key leaders of the government have all come down with the virus, does not escape ironic notice as he is sidelined by a virus he publicly touted as a hoax. Pride goeth before the fall. As Woodward has extensively interviewed more US presidents and their staffs, his perspective is valuable. The access he has been granted by ALL presidents (except Nixon) is because of his reputation for through and fair reporting. In “Fear”, despite Trump’s criticism, I thought that Woodward was quite fair to Trump, showing him in a sympathetic light. In “Rage” again, he shows fairness, a quality which is why Woodward consistently gets the presidential access he does. He doesn’t blame Trump for the virus, but he does cite Trump’s response to that crisis as the reason for concern and Trump’s unwillingness to acknowledge the problem means to people. It is that same reaction for many issues Trump faces — a failure to see the human cost of the issues at hand. It’s the repeated responses to the crises — the chaos, the rage, the intentional divisiveness — that is the overarching problem. Woodward takes the reader through his reporting process as he interviews the President. Out of abiding concern about the pandemic and it’s cost to the people, Woodward tries to truly uncover Trump’s thinking, which he comes back to again and again over the course of several interviews with the President. Yet in the end, Trump largely misses the point, much to Woodward’s profound concern and bewilderment. After all his interviews and all his reflection about what it means, Woodward reaches one inescapable conclusion which he writes as the last words of this eye-popping book, “When his performance as president is taken in its entirely, I can only reach one conclusion. Trump is the wrong man for the job.” ## Features - Author: Woodward, Bob. - Publisher: Simon & Schuster - Pages: 480 - Publication Date: 2020 - Edition: Illustrated - Binding: Hardcover - MSRP: 0.00 - ISBN13: 9781982131739 - ISBN: 198213173X - Other ISBN: 9781982131760 - Other ISBN Binding: printisbncanonical - Language: en ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #831,703 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #90 in United States Executive Government #137 in Political Commentary & Opinion #336 in US Presidents | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 34,843 Reviews | ## Images ![Rage - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71n8kiXrBOL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Dynamite behind every door *by B***M on September 15, 2020* The more I think about it, the more this book gets to me. The conversations Woodward has recorded absolutely blow my mind. While this book is not as engaging as Disloyal by Cohen was, writing-wise, it more than makes up for it in the sheer amount of data and detailed observations from those around the president. This isn’t Watergate type investigating, but it’s thorough and instructive. You can tell it’s written by a seasoned journalist. I’m a life-long Republican who read Rage because I’m looking for more data on Trump. I am spending so much time internally debating if I can in good conscience vote for Trump simply to stay loyal to the Republican party. I make up my mind to vote for someone else, swing back and tell myself I’d be supporting the party – not Trump – if I vote for him, and the pendulum starts its swing back again. There are things that I really like about the Republican party and things that I don’t like. A major sticking-point at the moment is that they nominated Trump for reelection. I still cannot wrap my mind around that. Anyway, I’d recently read Disloyal by Michael Cohen, which reinforced my belief, developed over the last 8 or 9 months, that there is something not quite right with President Trump. His actions as reported in the news and his tweets have been simply bizarre. The inconsistencies and contradictions in his narrative, the self-centeredness and self-promoting, the lies, the seeming lack of accurate recall, the level of hate and rage leveled at people who were recently praised, it’s all strangely familiar. I’m one of the caregivers for my dad-in-law, who suffers from narcissism, Parkinsonism, and dementia, among other things, and Trump’s and my dad-in-law’s behaviors are weirdly and alarmingly alike. But I wanted more data since I can’t order an in-depth cognitive competency assessment for Trump. (Perhaps we can start a change dot org petition for cognitive testing and an MRI of his brain to rule out physical causes?) I felt that Bob Woodward, with his journalistic training, might possibly have a more balanced accounting given all the interviews he did gathering background for this book. I didn’t expect him to be totally unbiased, and I’m sure he wasn’t. But I did expect him to report the facts and give accurate quotes from recorded interviews, and he seems to have done that. I was a bit upset over the reveal a few days ago that Woodward knew Trump was taking the virus seriously in private, but minimizing it to the American people and had not reported that at the time, but I’d already preordered the book and committed myself mentally to reading it. I wondered if Woodward withheld that information to sell more books later, vying for another Pulitzer. I have no clue. (Woodward does have a comment about not being focused on that at the time.) Trump seems to have cognitive issues, and yet, it is really hard for me to step across party lines. I have voted Republican since the year I tromped through the snow in New Hampshire with other college students campaigning for Reagan and worked a press conference held for him on my university’s campus. This will probably the first general election that I do not vote for the Republican candidate. Truthfully, I don’t particularly like Biden, either. He’s a professional politician who’s run for president multiple times since the 80’s. That’s not a rousing endorsement in my book. (Please, people, give us someone new and idealistic.) And yet, he’s the lesser evil in my eyes at the moment. (And, no, I’m not saying he’s evil. That’s an expression.) Frankly, I want new parties or no parties or some change in the system that encourages new blood and better candidates or lets us choose new candidates if we don’t like the ones that we are offered. (Yes, I know I’m ranting.) Trump has serious cognitive issues as well based on his bizarre utterances. Some instances of him acting as if he had no idea of his previous conversations include when he told his intelligence heads to hold a briefing and then interrogated them the next day wondering why they had done that. Coats had to tell Trump, “because you told us to.” Not to mention recently Trump thought that simple cognitive test was hard and was confused enough that he thought that acing it meant that he was very intelligent. I can attest from watching my dad that a person can have serious cognitive deficits and still ace that test easily. The smarter you are, the longer you can fool doctors who only do the minimum testing. I’m not going to rehash the book, except to include some quotes below. The major takeaway from Rage is more testimony about Trump handling people, situations, and the global and national virus outbreak by spurning the advice of the experts he hired, disparaging those very experts, and doing things his way: impromptu, uninformed, and aimed almost totally at his own reelection. Due to Rage (and also Disloyal) I’m convinced that Trump has always been a conniving, amoral narcissist that Woodward has tried to represent honestly. His conclusion matches what Cohen implies: “Trump is the wrong man for the job.” Some quotes from Rage: “And in an interview with President Trump on March 19, six weeks before I learned of O’Brien’s and Pottinger’s warnings, the president said his statements in the early weeks of the virus had been deliberately designed to not draw attention to it. ‘I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told me. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.’” “‘And I think he’s going to have it in good shape,’ Trump said, ‘but you know, it’s a very tricky situation.’ What made it ‘tricky’? ‘It goes through air,’ Trump said. ‘That’s always tougher than the touch. You don’t have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed. And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.” "“Look,” Trump said, “when you’re running a country it’s full of surprises. There’s dynamite behind every door.” Years ago, I had once heard a similar expression used by military forces to describe the hazards and nerve-racking emotions of house-to-house searches in a violent combat zone. I was surprised at this “dynamite behind every door” language from Trump. Instead of being his usual upbeat, cheerleading or angry self, the president sounded foreboding, even unconfident with a touch of unexpected fatalism." “‘There’s dynamite behind every door’ seemed the most self-aware statement about the jeopardy, pressures and responsibilities of the presidency I had heard Trump make in public or private. Yet the unexpected headline from the call was also his detailed knowledge of the virus and his description of it as so deadly so early in February, more than a month before it began to engulf him, his presidency and the United States. And so at odds with his public tone.” “Decision by tweet, often without warning to those charged with executing his policies, was one of the biggest sticks of dynamite behind the door.” “On January 28, 2020, when Trump’s national security adviser and his deputy warned Trump that the virus would be—not might be, but would be—the biggest national security threat to his presidency, the leadership clock had to be reset. It was a detailed forecast, supported by evidence and experience that unfortunately turned out to be correct. Presidents are the executive branch. There was a duty to warn. To listen, to plan, and to take care.” “At the next intelligence briefing, Trump blew up in a rage and began to chew them all out. What was that briefing? he asked, apparently upset about all the focus on Russia. “Why’d you do that?” “Because we were told to do that by you,” Coats said.” “For nearly 50 years, I have written about nine presidents from Nixon to Trump—20 percent of the 45 U.S. presidents. A president must be willing to share the worst with the people, the bad news with the good. All presidents have a large obligation to inform, warn, protect, to define goals and the true national interest. It should be a truth-telling response to the world, especially in crisis. Trump has, instead, enshrined personal impulse as a governing principle of his presidency.” “When his performance as president is taken in its entirety, I can only reach one conclusion: Trump is the wrong man for the job.” ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Woodward’s “Rage” delivers on all levels *by K***S on October 3, 2020* Bob Woodward’s is THE superstar of the insider presidential politics genre. This book, “Rage”, brilliantly shows why. His writing covers 9 presidents, from Nixon to Trump. As I see it if anyone has perspective and an eye to modern presidential history, this journalist is it. Woodward’s previous book about the Trump presidency, “Fear”, didn’t include interviews with the President as either Trump or his staff stonewalled interview requests to speak directly to Trump. Yet, Woodward’s reputation and gravitas isn’t something to be ignored, and Trump wasn’t happy when “Fear” came out and he wasn’t part of it. Whatever one thinks of Trump, he does have a certain genius for self-promotion — living by the mantra that the only bad publicity is no publicity at all. Trump didn’t make the mistake of ignoring Woodward with this book. He granted Woodward 18 interviews over an 8 months in 9 hours of conversations (which the President knew were recorded on tape or notes). Woodward interviewed many current and past insiders in the Trump administration, among them it seems were Rex Tillerson, James Mattis, Dan Coats, and Jared Kushner, as well as insiders who spoke under “deep cover” meaning their words could be used but only anonymously, a standard and understandable practice in this type of book. Yet, what makes “Rage” unique among insider tell-alls is the President’s explicit participation and his approval for others to do the same. That is Woodward’s genius, getting people comfortable enough to open up and tell their story. This is the first book to explore Trump’s relationship with Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s dictator. Woodward had access to 27 letters Trump and Kim exchanged over their bizarre relationship. Reading the gushing letters, especially those coming from Kim, was oddly uncomfortable, yet Trump took great pride in calling them to Woodward’s attention, and perhaps deservedly so because of the historic implications. Despite the thrill of the promise of their meetings, nothing came to pass with their negotiations. While Trump notes with some sense of accmplishment, which Woodward acknowledges, that there hasn’t been war between the US and North Korea, there hasn’t been much else either. In addition, “Rage” is the first insider look into the COVID-19 pandemic response of the Trump administration. The Trump interviews happened between December 2019 to July 2020 as the pandemic unfolded. The President shocked Woodward in early February by telling him how dangerous and contagious the virus was, in very knowledgeable terms, while publicly Trump was telling the people the virus was minor, under control, and would disappear by April (2020). As I was finishing reading this book, the sad and shocking (yet not surprising) announcement that the President, his wife, and many key leaders of the government have all come down with the virus, does not escape ironic notice as he is sidelined by a virus he publicly touted as a hoax. Pride goeth before the fall. As Woodward has extensively interviewed more US presidents and their staffs, his perspective is valuable. The access he has been granted by ALL presidents (except Nixon) is because of his reputation for through and fair reporting. In “Fear”, despite Trump’s criticism, I thought that Woodward was quite fair to Trump, showing him in a sympathetic light. In “Rage” again, he shows fairness, a quality which is why Woodward consistently gets the presidential access he does. He doesn’t blame Trump for the virus, but he does cite Trump’s response to that crisis as the reason for concern and Trump’s unwillingness to acknowledge the problem means to people. It is that same reaction for many issues Trump faces — a failure to see the human cost of the issues at hand. It’s the repeated responses to the crises — the chaos, the rage, the intentional divisiveness — that is the overarching problem. Woodward takes the reader through his reporting process as he interviews the President. Out of abiding concern about the pandemic and it’s cost to the people, Woodward tries to truly uncover Trump’s thinking, which he comes back to again and again over the course of several interviews with the President. Yet in the end, Trump largely misses the point, much to Woodward’s profound concern and bewilderment. After all his interviews and all his reflection about what it means, Woodward reaches one inescapable conclusion which he writes as the last words of this eye-popping book, “When his performance as president is taken in its entirely, I can only reach one conclusion. Trump is the wrong man for the job.” ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “DYNAMITE BEHIND EVERY DOOR” DEMOCRACY IN JEOPARDY *by M***T on September 16, 2020* I always thought that Trump had surrounded himself with mediocre “advisors,”, that he didn’t know the difference and/or the intellectual gurus would be banished. Not so. The more I read about Matt Pottinger, he could have been our hero if Trump would have listened to him from the beginning. Mr. Pottinger had been the Deputy National Security Advisor for three years. He had lived in China for seven years, and was formerly a Wall Street Journal reporter. He is a China scholar and speaks Mandarin enabling him to communicate directly. Apparently, he alerted Trump that China concealed the outbreak for three months. Therefore, we had an in-house expert who alerted the President. In February, 2020, Trump contacted Bob Woodward at 9:00 pm to set up and begin what came to be seventeen interviews. The rest is history as is said, but when we have a President who would prefer to work with despots, our democracy becomes precarious. Woodward uses flashbacks and tells us about former advisors, like Rex Tillerson and General Mattis (Mad Dog). I found it interesting that both men at the beginning of their tenure agreed on a united front before presenting any advice or facts to the President. Dan Coats is quite interesting. I was not aware of his extreme religious fervor or the strong influence of his wife, Marsha Coats, who approved of her husband going to work for Trump. Not because she liked him or his egregious behavior, but that he says he is pro-life. As I was reading the book, I was startled that Trump actually understood the mammoth scale of this oncoming pandemic and how it could ravage the U.S. population. He chose to “play it down,” for what purpose I am still not sure. Did he think it would go away? Nothing vanished, as of this writing there are 190,000 dead and he, with his usual candor, lied and lied to the American people. It is hard to believe the nation is polarized about his re-election or the fact that he has our best interests at heart. He can still win; the Congressional Republicans apparently believe their best gamble for retaining their jobs is with him. It remains difficult for me to accept that Trump consented to be taped, on the record! Is he delusional? Woodward must have a talented, large staff. The editing is superb. Each chapter is just about the right length. It is slick and filled with facts that will become historic. As I think about this “masterpiece,” I found Rosenstein’s role confusing. I remain mystified about his supporters, who allow themselves to be targets for Covid 19, when they attend his rallies. The President, unmasked, is safely on a stage, elevated from the masses. They seem to have the opposite of rage, they are excited and apparently want more lies and deceit. They seem to be racist, anti-immigrant and love their tax breaks. Trump bragged that his affinity for dictators elicits more productive relationships that benefit himself, not the citizens of America. No kidding. Woodward emphasized that Trump was reluctant to propel the massive power of the federal government to eradicate Covid. 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