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Good Trump, bad Trump

The heart of One Damn Thing After Another concerns the earlier days of Trump's presidency when, apparently, "country and principle" took first place

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ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: Memoirs of an Attorney General

Jeffrey Toobin | NYT
ONE DAMN THING AFTER ANOTHER: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Author: William P Barr
Publisher: William Morrow
Price: $35 
Pages: 608

It’s a rare Washington memoir that makes you gasp in the very second sentence. Here’s the first sentence from William P Barr’s One Damn Thing After Another, an account of his two turns as attorney general: “The first day of December 2020, almost a month after the presidential election, was gray and rainy.” Indeed it was. Here’s the second: “That afternoon, the president, struggling to come to terms with the election result, had heard I was at the White House. …” Uh, “struggling to