I Alone Can Fix It Quotes

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis wrote, also in The Atlantic.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Mr. President,” Milley said, “there are two hundred seventy-six cities in America with over one hundred thousand people in them. We track this all the time.” In the last twenty-four hours, Milley said, there were only two cities with violent protests so large that local authorities might have needed reinforcements. Otherwise, he said, “there was some vandalism and some rioting, but they were handled by local police.” Then he turned back to Miller. “Stephen, that’s not burning the country down,” he said.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“He displayed his ignorance, his rash temper, his pettiness and pique, his malice and cruelty, his utter absence of empathy, his narcissism, his transgressive personality, his disloyalty, his sense of victimhood, his addiction to television, his suspicion and silencing of experts, and his deception and lies.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“A student of history, Milley saw Trump as the classic authoritarian leader with nothing to lose. He described to aides that he kept having this stomach-churning feeling that some of the worrisome early stages of twentieth-century fascism in Germany were replaying in twenty-first-century America. He saw parallels between Trump’s rhetoric of election fraud and Adolf Hitler’s insistence to his followers at the Nuremberg rallies that he was both a victim and their savior. “This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“The pain of preparation is much less than the pain of regret,”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Trump’s rash and retaliatory dismissal of Maguire would compel retired Admiral William McRaven, who oversaw the Navy SEALs raid that killed Osama bin Laden, to write: “As Americans, we should be frightened—deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security—then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“The General Services Administration was the entity that “ascertained” the next president, a determination that would allow Biden’s transition team to use government offices and to prepare for a smooth hand-off at the January 20 inauguration.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“ascertainment.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“In so many ways, Donald Trump represents the death rattle of an old America, and it’s loud and it’s violent.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“As Americans, we should be frightened—deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security—then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.” —”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Trump and his allies in Congress who voted not to certify actually thought that someone could get out there and disrupt the constitutional process of the United States of America... They underestimated their own country and the people in power. They underestimated the strength of the legislature. They underestimated the vice president to do his duty, Georgia representatives, the judiciary. They didn't understand their own country.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“maybe this COVID thing is a good thing because I don’t have to shake hands with people,” the germaphobe president said, according to Troye. “I was a businessperson in New York and I shook a lot of hands, but when you’re a politician, you really have to shake a lot more hands. I have to shake hands with these disgusting people. It’s disgusting. And now I don’t”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Pence also called Lindsey Graham, just in case the senator saw any workaround. “No,” Graham said. “Really?” Pence asked. “I’d tell you if I could, but I don’t. I’ve had my people look at it,” Graham replied. “Mike, I’m no constitutional lawyer, but common sense tells you you can’t do this.” Some of the professionals working for Trump, including Pat Cipollone, tried to talk sense into the boss. “Tell the vice president he needs to send the votes back. He needs to do it,” Trump told Cipollone during a meeting in the president’s private dining room in early January. “He can’t do that,” Cipollone said.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Something else motivated the president at this time. The Lincoln Project aired a viral ad in mid-December that featured a haunting voice-over by a deep-voiced man: “The end is coming, Donald. Even Mike Pence knows. He’s backing away from your train wreck, from your desperate lies and clown lawyers. When Mike Pence is running away from you, you know it’s over. Trying to save his reputation, protect his future.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“It’s the ultimate irony that a guy who acted like a total sycophantic pussy for four years, Trump wants him to be the Six Million Dollar Man at the end,” one of Trump’s advisers later remarked.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“extraordinary capacity to say things that were not true. He always seemed to have complete conviction in whatever product he was selling or argument he was making. He had an uncanny ability to say with a straight face, things are not as you’ve been told or even as you’ve seen with your own eyes. He could commit to a lie in the frame of his body and in the timbre of his voice so fully, despite all statistical and even video evidence to the contrary.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“have to go into your radiation treatments like you own the machine,” Giroir said. “Don’t go in there weak. Don’t go in there with self-pity. Don’t go in there like you’re gonna die. You go in there like you’re the one who’s going to throw the switch and you’ll get through”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“You look great, sir,” Crenshaw said. “What’s your secret”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“She was a lot of work, a real diva with the scarves and shit,” he said.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Pence as his number two was his resemblance to a statue standing adoringly at his side.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“I think it would be hard if George Washington came back from the dead and he chose Abraham Lincoln as his vice president, I think it would have been very hard for them to beat me,” Trump said.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“They’re just reflecting the will of the people.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“If President Trump wouldn’t have tweeted out anything and would have stayed silent, we would have stayed silent as well.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied,”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“American public,” the president said. “This is an”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“it had been a day of inspiration and hope”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“conceit”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“There’s no insurrection.”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“someone who was out of touch with what was happening in the country,”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year

“Kushner’s group was mocked more derisively; “that whizbang crew of numb nuts”
― Carol Leonnig, I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year