The real reason Trump keeps telling the Big Lie
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Michael D'Antonio writes that though the latest books on Donald Trump's presidency vary in style, they share one common theme relevant to America's immediate political future: Trump has an insatiable desire for attention and will continue to sink to whatever depths are necessary to keep the attention focused on him.
In "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," Carol Loennig and Philip Rucker show how the nation's top military leaders were poised to thwart a coup, had Trump or his allies attempted one. In "Landslide," Michael Wolff writes that as late as the morning of January 6, Trump and his former lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, may have believed the election wasn't over. And in "Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost," Michael C. Bender depicts Trump shouting "treason!" and saying those who leaked the story about his family taking cover in the White House bunker during Black Lives Matter protests should be "executed." (Trump has already denied much of the reporting in the new books.)
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