An interesting, intimate, and revealing account of the most radical and influential presidencies of our time.
From two journalists who have covered him closely, perhaps more than anyone else, over the past decade, comes this comprehensive portrait of Donald Trump in the White House. The book *"Regime Change*" covers the first year of Trump's second presidency, a period freed from all the constraints that characterized his first presidency.The generals who had refused his requests were gone, and the remaining lawyers learned to pick their battles. His administration ignored court orders and claimed powers that Congress had limited.
What remains is a president willing to take huge risks that have upended global markets and toppled heads of state; A president with an authoritarian streak who acts on instinct alone.Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented reporting from inside the administration's most secretive corridors, Regime Change takes the reader into the Situation Room and into the secret Oval Office deliberations that ignited a new war in the Middle East, and saw Trump close borders, deploy National Guard troops to cities, and send immigration agents into deadly clashes with protesters. Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan take us on a tour behind the scenes of a presidency that changed the face of culture and turned the Department of Justice into an instrument of revenge against...The president's enemies, and the position itself into a blatant tool for profit.
They reveal a second term driven by an anachronism that Trump himself recognized: that the indictments, convictions, assassination attempts and four years of exile did not make him weaker, but stronger, more vindictive and willing to gamble than any president in modern history.This is the story of how Trump used that power, who tried to stop him, and why most of them failed. It's also the story of something American journalists are more accustomed to documenting in distant capitals than at home: a president who fundamentally changed the nature of the office he holds and, with him, how the world understands America's power. It is an account of regime change here in America - a landmark real-time chronicle of an unparalleled modern presidency.
