Author(s): Peter Navarro

Politics

Why Trump lost the White House in 2020 and how he will win it back in 2024--and none too soon.

Steve Bannon, the chief architect of Trump's 2016 win, describes Taking Back Trump's America as "half Hunter Thompson, all David Halberstam" and a "beautiful, brass knuckles, Roman candle of a book that will endure in history as the definitive insider's account of the 2020 fall and 2024 rise of the White House of Trump."

In Peter Navarro's telling--he was in all of the rooms where it happened--Trump's fall may be laid squarely at the feet of a coterie of incompetent and disloyal "bad personnel" inside the White House. They continually sought to undermine the commander in chief they putatively served and included everyone from Attorney General Bill Barr, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, and National Economic Council Directors Gary Cohn and Larry Kudlow, to National Security Advisors H.R. McMaster and John "Dr. Strangelove" Bolton, Jared "Rasputin" Kushner, the Four-Star Traitors in Generals John Kelly and Jim Mattis, and four of the worst chiefs of staff in White House history.

This confederacy of predatory globalists, Never-Trump Republicans, wild-eyed Freedom Caucus nut jobs, and self-absorbed Wall Street transactionalists would constantly delay, disrupt, and deter a set of populist, economic, nationalist, and "tough on China" actions and policies that would have otherwise carried Donald Trump to a landslide victory.