The New York Times Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt said Tuesday his new book about President Trump’s time in office and his impeachment chronicles the president’s “unusual” use of power, but also the people around Trump who tried at times to stop the president in order to “enforce the law.”
“In this case Trump’s use of power is so unusual and extraordinary that the book chronicles that, but it chronicles something else that I think we’ve rarely if ever seen,” Schmidt said on The Hill.TV’s “Rising.”
“And that’s the people around the president who are there either to help him execute his agenda or enforce the law, try and stop the president,” he added. “So, what is it like to be one of those people, who is standing, literally, between the president and the abyss. And when you’re one of those people there’s no one else to call, you’re the 911 operator there’s no other 911 operator.”
Schmidt’s new book, titled “Donald Trump v The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President,” was released last week.
Watch the full interview above.
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