Trump's Trials
One started with a phone call. The other with a deadly riot. Here is the story.
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2020
560 pages
978-1-9821-5301-4 (ISBN)
Description
"Sets a standard for political storytelling with impeccable research and lively writing." ?Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Page-turning…riveting…colorful and detailed…a barometer of the health of our democracy." ?Barbara McQuade, The Washington Post
Two investigations. Two impeachments. Two acquittals. One president. The full story.
Unprecedented. Unimaginable. Until Donald Trump's presidency.
A year apart, two ferocious political dramas challenged American democracy. As Pulitzer Prize?winning Washington Post reporters Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan show in this gripping account, the two Trump impeachments and acquittals shared common threads: An American president, relentless in his drive to win re-election, willing to disregard the laws that limit his powers, no matter the cost. A divided Congress, split along party lines, unable to agree on whether Trump's actions met the Constitutional standard for removal from office. The Constitution itself, tested in ways that its framers had not anticipated.
Trump's Trials is an expanded version of Trump on Trial, Sullivan and Jordan's compelling and masterful 2020 account of the first impeachment. That narrative, a crisp page-turner with exquisite detail and vivid scenes, deftly conveyed the calculations of the central figures, in particular Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. The authors have added three new chapters, and revised others, to carry the narrative through the 2020 presidential election of Joe Biden; Trump's feverish attempts to overturn Biden's victory; his supporters' deadly attack on the Capitol as Congress was certifying the electoral votes; Trump's second impeachment and acquittal?but this time, with seven Republican senators voting against him.
Sullivan and Jordan, aided by editor Steve Luxenberg, have written a fast-paced, authoritative account of the historic events that rocked America?an invaluable examination of what happened and why.
"Page-turning…riveting…colorful and detailed…a barometer of the health of our democracy." ?Barbara McQuade, The Washington Post
Two investigations. Two impeachments. Two acquittals. One president. The full story.
Unprecedented. Unimaginable. Until Donald Trump's presidency.
A year apart, two ferocious political dramas challenged American democracy. As Pulitzer Prize?winning Washington Post reporters Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan show in this gripping account, the two Trump impeachments and acquittals shared common threads: An American president, relentless in his drive to win re-election, willing to disregard the laws that limit his powers, no matter the cost. A divided Congress, split along party lines, unable to agree on whether Trump's actions met the Constitutional standard for removal from office. The Constitution itself, tested in ways that its framers had not anticipated.
Trump's Trials is an expanded version of Trump on Trial, Sullivan and Jordan's compelling and masterful 2020 account of the first impeachment. That narrative, a crisp page-turner with exquisite detail and vivid scenes, deftly conveyed the calculations of the central figures, in particular Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell. The authors have added three new chapters, and revised others, to carry the narrative through the 2020 presidential election of Joe Biden; Trump's feverish attempts to overturn Biden's victory; his supporters' deadly attack on the Capitol as Congress was certifying the electoral votes; Trump's second impeachment and acquittal?but this time, with seven Republican senators voting against him.
Sullivan and Jordan, aided by editor Steve Luxenberg, have written a fast-paced, authoritative account of the historic events that rocked America?an invaluable examination of what happened and why.
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Kevin Sullivan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post and a bestselling author. His book, Trump on Trial, coauthored with his wife and Washington Post colleague Mary Jordan, features reporting from dozens of Washington Post journalists, and traces the investigation, acquittal, and aftermath of the impeachment of Donald Trump. The last book Sullivan and Jordan wrote was the #1 New York Times bestseller, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, the story of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who were kidnapped in Cleveland and held for a decade. They previously wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. They were the Washington Post's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City, and London for fourteen years.
Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post and a bestselling author. Her book, Trump on Trial, coauthored with her husband and Washington Post colleague Kevin Sullivan, features reporting from dozens of Washington Post journalists, and traces the investigation, acquittal, and aftermath of the impeachment of Donald Trump. Jordan's New York Times bestselling book, The Art of Her Deal, an unauthorized biography of Melania Trump, was published in June 2020. Jordan and Sullivan are also authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, the story of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who were kidnapped in Cleveland and held for a decade. They previously wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. They were the Washington Post's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City, and London for fourteen years.
Mary Jordan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post and a bestselling author. Her book, Trump on Trial, coauthored with her husband and Washington Post colleague Kevin Sullivan, features reporting from dozens of Washington Post journalists, and traces the investigation, acquittal, and aftermath of the impeachment of Donald Trump. Jordan's New York Times bestselling book, The Art of Her Deal, an unauthorized biography of Melania Trump, was published in June 2020. Jordan and Sullivan are also authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland, the story of Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, who were kidnapped in Cleveland and held for a decade. They previously wrote The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail. They were the Washington Post's co-bureau chiefs in Tokyo, Mexico City, and London for fourteen years.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Note to Readers
- Prologue
- List of Principal Figures
- Part One: Threats
- Chapter One: Watch Your Back
- Chapter Two: "Ready to Rumble"
- Chapter Three: Walking the Fine Line
- Chapter Four: "Courage Is Contagious"
- Chapter Five: High Fives
- Chapter Six: The I-Word
- Chapter Seven: "They Tried to Take Me Down!"
- Chapter Eight: "I Think Your Boss Doesn't Like Ukraine"
- Chapter Nine: "Who Put You in Charge?"
- Chapter Ten: "Where Exactly Is the Line for You?"
- Chapter Eleven: Flyover
- Chapter Twelve: "Drug Deal"
- Chapter Thirteen: "Stray Voltage"
- Part Two: Risk
- Chapter Fourteen: "Do Us a Favor"
- Chapter Fifteen: The "Big Stuff"
- Chapter Sixteen: Plan B
- Chapter Seventeen: Ukraine in a Box
- Chapter Eighteen: "Credible Urgent Concern"
- Chapter Nineteen: "Dig Very Hard, and Very Fast"
- Chapter Twenty: Nadler's Audition
- Chapter Twenty-One: "Not Waving You Off"
- Chapter Twenty-Two: "The Women Who Kill"
- Chapter Twenty-Three: "You Don't Really Want to Do This"
- Part Three: Impeachment
- Chapter Twenty-Four: "Isn't It a Perfect Call?"
- Chapter Twenty-Five: "That's Close to a Spy"
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Welcome to the SCIF
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Disrupter
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Pointing a Finger
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: "Get Over It"
- Chapter Thirty: Remember Francis Rooney
- Chapter Thirty-One: "Take the Gloves Off"
- Chapter Thirty-Two: "Lock Him Up!"
- Chapter Thirty-Three: "KA BOOM!"
- Chapter Thirty-Four: Live, from Washington
- Chapter Thirty-Five: "It's Very Intimidating"
- Chapter Thirty-Six: "I Will Be Fine for Telling the Truth"
- Chapter Thirty-Seven: Smiles All Around
- Chapter Thirty-Eight: "These Fictions Are Harmful"
- Chapter Thirty-Nine: "Potomac River Fever"
- Chapter Forty: "I Don't Hate Anybody"
- Chapter Forty-One: The Weight of History
- Chapter Forty-Two: "Please Let Her Speak"
- Chapter Forty-Three: "I Am Not an Impartial Juror"
- Chapter Forty-Four: "The President Is Impeached"
- Part Four: Trump on Trial
- Chapter Forty-Five: "Trust Me to Run This"
- Chapter Forty-Six: "We Need to Get This Thing Going"
- Chapter Forty-Seven: "Today, We Will Make History"
- Chapter Forty-Eight: "Do You Solemnly Swear?"
- Chapter Forty-Nine: Virus
- Chapter Fifty: "Will Senators Rise to the Occasion?"
- Chapter Fifty-One: "Your Head Will Be on a Pike"
- Chapter Fifty-Two: A Small Earthquake
- Chapter Fifty-Three: "Every President Believes That"
- Chapter Fifty-Four: "Let the People Decide"
- Chapter Fifty-Five: "This Country Is Our Masterpiece"
- Chapter Fifty-Six: Never Over
- Chapter Fifty-Seven: Payback
- Chapter Fifty-Eight: "Stand Back and Stand By"
- Chapter Fifty-Nine: "Be There, Will Be Wild!"
- Chapter Sixty: Not Going Away
- Epilogue
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
