Rucker joined the Post in 2005 and previously has covered Congress, the Obama White House, and the 20 presidential campaigns. In 2021, the White House Correspondents’ Association honored Rucker with the Aldo Beckman Award for overall excellence in White House coverage. He and a team of Post reporters won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. Philip Rucker is the senior Washington correspondent at The Washington Post and led its coverage of President Trump and his administration as White House Bureau chief.

Here, for the first time, certain officials who felt honor-bound not to divulge what they witnessed in positions of trust tell the truth for the benefit of history.Ī peerless and gripping narrative, A Very Stable Genius not only reveals President Trump at his most unvarnished but shows how he tested the strength of America’s democracy and its common heart as a nation. With deep and unmatched sources throughout Washington, D.C., Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker reveal the forty-fifth president up close. The universal value of the Trump administration was loyalty-not to the country, but to the president himself-and Trump’s North Star was always the perpetuation of his own power. In fact, there were patterns to his behavior and that of his associates. Yet as he undertook the actual work of the commander in chief, it became nearly impossible to see beyond the daily chaos of scandal, investigation, and constant bluster. Trump on July 21, 2016, accepting the Republican presidential nomination and promising to restore what he described as a fallen nation. “I alone can fix it.” So proclaimed Donald J. Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House bureau chief Philip Rucker, both Pulitzer Prize winners, provide the definitive insider narrative of Donald Trump’s presidency Trump’s shambolic tenure in office to date.'

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