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Nightmare Scenario

Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History

by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta

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556 pages
Published
June 29, 2021
Publisher
Harper
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On Political Wire 3 posts

  • Jun 24, 2021
    Inside the Extraordinary Effort to Save Trump’s Life

    The Washington Post reviews the extraordinary effort to save Donald Trump from COVID-19, in an excerpt from Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History.

  • Jun 21, 2021
    Exchange of the Day

    Former President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Alex Azar, are quoted in a new book, Nightmare Scenario on coronavirus testing at the start of the pandemic. TRUMP: I’m going to lose the election because of testing! What idiot had the federal government do testing?

  • Jun 21, 2021
    Inside Trump’s Response to the Pandemic

    Out next week: Nightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration’s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta.

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