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Frankly, We Did Win This Election

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Frankly, We Did Win This Election

The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

by Michael C. Bender

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433 pages
Published
July 13, 2021
Publisher
Twelve
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On Political Wire 8 posts

  • Jul 21, 2021
    Exchange of the Day

    Axios highlights a fiery Oval Office confrontation between Donald Trump and Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley over the general's public apology for appearing in a photo op with Trump at St. John's Church, recounted in the new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election: TRUMP:…

  • Jul 8, 2021
    Pence ‘Lost It’ When Trump Threw Article at Him

    Former Vice President Mike Pence reportedly "lost it" and "snarled" at former President Donald Trump after getting a crumpled up newspaper article thrown at him which reported that his political committee hired Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski in 2018, the Wall Street Journal reports, in an…

  • Jul 6, 2021
    Some RNC Staffers Refused to Vote for Trump

    A new book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election, reports some RNC officials didn't vote for then-President Trump in last November's election, Fox News reports.

  • Jun 30, 2021
    The Blood Feud Between Jared and Kellyanne

    A new excerpt from Frankly, We Did Win This Election says Jared Kushner and Kellyanne Conway "were engaged in a years-long 'blood feud' for most of former President Donald Trump's time in office," the Daily Mail reports.

  • Jun 28, 2021
    Exchange of the Day

    Axios has a passage from the forthcoming book, Frankly, We Did Win This Election, from the Situation Room during the Black Lives Matter protests last summer.

  • Jun 26, 2021
    Trump Regularly Mocked Rudy Giuliani

    "Donald Trump enjoyed tormenting Rudy Giuliani, mocking him for falling asleep in meetings and calling him 'pathetic' after the former mayor's television appearances," the Daily Mail reports.

  • Jun 25, 2021
    Trump Wanted Military to ‘Crack Skulls’ of Protesters

    Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley "repeatedly pushed back on then-President Donald Trump's argument that the military should intervene violently in order to quell the civil unrest that erupted around the country last year," CNN reports.

  • Jun 1, 2021
    The Inside Story of How Trump Lost

    Out this summer: Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael C. Bender.

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