This summer features a spate of books offering revelations on President Donald Trump's last year in office:
I Alone Can Fix It - Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
Mike Pence provided enough anecdotal detail for a dramatic, newsworthy account of his last-minute acquisition of a spine in the face of Trump’s attempt to bully him into stopping the electoral college certification. As rioters breached the Capitol and roamed the hallways shouting, “Hang Mike Pence!,” the vice president was evacuated to “a secured subterranean area,” the authors report. But when the head of his security detail, Tim Giebels, tried to persuade him to wait inside an armored limousine, Pence refused, suspecting that the Secret Service would try to drive him to safety, making him look like either a conspirator or a coward unwilling to carry out his constitutional duty to ratify Joe Biden’s victory.
Some readers may balk at seeing Bill Barr get credit for anything, and with good reason. The former attorney general deserves to be forever remembered for helping Trump falsely claim exoneration by the Mueller report and for corrupting the Justice Department in the service of protecting the president’s friends and pursuing his partisan aims. After the election, in key public statements and in several tense private confrontations, Barr drew the line at supporting the “big lie,” depriving Trump of backup in his desperate attempt to mount legal challenges to voting results in the states that put Biden over the top. “We’ve looked into these things and they’re nonsense,” Barr told the president about his election fraud tirades in one of their last meetings, before he conveniently resigned just in time to avoid association with the January 6 riot.
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The Washington Post
07/15/2021
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