![]() Jeff Sessions steps into the attorney general role “terrified and shaken, like a beagle in a thunderstorm.” Former House Speaker Paul Ryan recalls sobbing over the Capitol insurrection while dodging his complicity in Trump’s rise. For example, a panicky Spicer, Trump’s first lie-peddling press secretary, demanded that Leibovich not write that he puts on makeup before going on TV. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, is light on analysis and heavier on portraits of the cowards. As a result, the author’s chronicle of the Trump era, from the early debates through the Jan. It doesn’t take deep political acumen to figure out the root of this hypocrisy: Playing nice with a demonstrably inept, petty, and heartless leader was a path to power. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trump.” Everywhere he looks, he finds White House aides and GOP leaders privately bemoaning the president while publicly defending him. ![]() Veteran New York Times Washington reporter Leibovich focuses the narrative on “the Sean Spicers, Kellyanne Conways, any of the other Washington C-listers who were bumped temporarily up to B-list status by their proximity to Donald J. Relive the Trump administration from the perspectives of the toadies who enabled it. ![]()
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