Carol Leonnig is an investigative reporter at the Washington Post. She has won three Pulitzers for her reporting on misconduct in the Secret Service, Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and government surveillance. She is a regular contributor to NBC News and MSNBC.
Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at the Washington Post. He and a team of Post reporters won the 2016 Pulitzer for their reportage of Russian meddling in the 2016 US election. Rucker is an on-air political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
A Very Stable Genius (2020) is the definitive account of Donald Trump’s time in the White House. After three years of silence, dozens of public officials and other first-hand witnesses familiar with the workings of the Trump administration went on record with reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker. Their testimony forms the backbone of these blinks, which reveal the forty-fifth president of the United States up close.
I Alone Can Fix It (2021) is the definitive behind-the-scenes account of Donald Trump’s final 12 months in the White House. Drawing on in-depth interviews with participants in the drama, it charts how a president who was on course for reelection ended up presiding over a doomed and bloody attempt to cling on to power. Along the way, it reveals the thinking behind Trump’s dysfunctional responses to the coronavirus pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement.