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From David Cay Johnston, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the bestselling The Making of Donald Trump, comes his New York Times bestseller about how the Trump Administration's policies will affect our jobs, savings, taxes, and safety-completed revised and updated.

New York Times bestselling author and longtime Trump observer…

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I think this is an impressive book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning and NYTimes bestselling author about the dangers posed by the first Trump administration destroying norms and damaging democratic institutions and thereby compromising our safety and the finances of the lower-middle class.

Johnston diagnoses the grave mistakes of the first Trump administration and makes us aware of what we can expect from the second.

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