[ad_1]
Labor Day, a public holiday in the United States that falls on the first Monday in September, marks the end of summer and, in an election year, marks the point at which many Americans begin to really participate and pay attention to the race. by the White House.
The first week of September is traditionally when the campaign picks up speed before Election Day in November.
Despite the pandemic, this year has been no different with Donald Trump and Joe Biden both on the campaign trail for the past week.
The start of the election season has also brought a host of new books on the Trump presidency. Most have been negative but not all.
Just last Tuesday, the memoirs were released by Donald Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and former FBI agent Peter Strzok, who led the investigation into the emails from Hillary Clinton and the allegations of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
In his book ‘Disloyal: A Memoir’, Michael Cohen portrays Donald Trump as a mobster who made racist comments about African Americans and Hispanics.
Cohen wrote the book while in prison and claims that the President of the United States is “guilty of the same crimes” that landed him in jail. He writes that Donald Trump is “a cheater, a liar, a fraud, a bully, a racist, a predator, a con man” and someone with the mentality of a “mob boss”.
The White House dismissed the book as a lie.
“Michael Cohen is a disgraced criminal and disbarred attorney who lied to Congress,” White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in a statement.
“He has lost all credibility and it is not surprising to see his latest attempt to profit from the lies,” he added.
One of Ms McEnany’s predecessors in the role of press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, praised the president of the United States in her book ‘Speaking for Myself’, which was published on the same day.
“President Trump is not perfect, it is not always easy, but he loves the American people and is willing to fight for them even if it means fighting alone,” he wrote.
Someone with whom Donald Trump has spent years fighting also published a book on Tuesday.
Former FBI agent Peter Strzok described the US president as a national security danger and wrote that he was compromised, in debt to Russia and vulnerable to pressure from Vladimir Putin.
Strzok was removed from the investigation into ties between the Trump Campaign and Russia after the discovery of text messages between him and his colleague Lisa Page criticizing Donald Trump.
The US president has repeatedly attacked Peter Strzok, describing him as one of the architects of the Russian “witch hunt” against him.
Despite all the headline-grabbing claims in the aforementioned publications, the book that made the biggest news this week hasn’t even come out yet.
“Rage,” by veteran journalist Bob Woodward, will be released on Tuesday and its publishers are no doubt expecting big sales following the publication of drip excerpts during the week.
Woodward conducted 18 interviews with the US President over the course of several months, and in one interview, Donald Trump admitted to downplaying the threat posed by the coronavirus.
He also acknowledged the severity of the virus in recorded conversations while conveying a very different message in public.
The revelations led to a storm of controversy and the US president resorted to his customary tactics of dismissing negative press as fake news and political works from the mainstream media.
However, the problem with that defense is that, this time around, the claims aren’t coming from anonymous White House sources or disgruntled former employees. The controversy has been generated by the president’s own words that are recorded.
The question arises as to why Donald Trump decided to give Bob Woodward so much access and allow interviews to be recorded.
Despite constantly criticizing the media, the president of the United States greatly cares about how he is portrayed in the press.
Bob Woodward, who shared the story of the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein, is one of America’s most respected and well-known journalists.
In 2018, he wrote a scathing best seller about Donald Trump called ‘Fear’.
This time, the US President wanted to try to shape the narrative and work with Bob Woodward, rather than against it, but his efforts seem to have failed with days of negative headlines emanating from a book that has yet to hit the shelves.
The revelations in ‘Rage’ and other books won’t hurt Donald Trump among his strong base of support, but that’s not enough for him to keep the White House.
To close the gap in opinion polls, you need to attract swing voters in swing states as you did in 2016. Controversies and scandals won’t help in that effort.
No doubt there will be plenty of other surprises in the coming weeks in a campaign that has already had all the drama of a memory that says it all.
In this case, the final chapter will not be written until the election results are known.
[ad_2]