I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year
by Carol Leonnig
View on GoodreadsThe second Rucker-Leonnig Trump book, focused on 2020 — COVID, the racial-justice protests, the election denial campaign, and January 6 — built on roughly 200 interviews with named senior officials.
Core ideas
- The COVID response failure is treated as a coherent decision-making collapse rather than a sequence of bad calls; the book reconstructs specific meetings where alternatives were dismissed in favor of the political narrative.
- The Lafayette Square clearing and the post-protest militarization-of-government discourse get unusually detailed treatment — Esper's, Milley's, and others' on-the-record accounts of what they thought was being asked of them.
- The election-denial period and January 6 buildup are reconstructed from the perspective of staff who were trying to manage Trump's behavior rather than execute on his demands; the Milley material here predates Woodward's Peril.
Published2021
Pages476
ISBN9780593298947
ReadAug 2024
