own a smartphone. But we don’t have that with him, and we


have a set of parents that have lawyered up. I think the worst possible scenario, in terms of history, is that we never find out why.


You write a lot about the Trump surge after the shooting that the mainstream media largely missed. Did their kid-gloves treatment of Kamala Harris hurt her campaign? Most importantly, it hurt the readers — be- cause it wasn’t an honest assessment of what was happening. They weren’t given a full understanding of


how this campaign was being conducted, and then they weren’t given a full understanding of who this candidate was. There was no atten- tion to detail and no challenge to her. Look, there was no there there. There still isn’t. It’s insulting to the reader, and it is insulting to the American public, to not put that out there in the most robust way. People often said to me, “I don’t mind if


Trump gets a tough interview. I mind that they didn’t do it to the other people.”


You write that communities and folks who live outside major cities are ignored by major media, yet are central to the American experi- ence. How is Trump, a billionaire from New York, so able to relate? He’s from the outer boroughs, where he had to “punch up” to get the elites to pay attention to him. The elites in New York like old money. They don’t like new money; new money is too brash. And so Trump, because of his experi- ence and immersion, and working with the working class while building what would even- tually become where he drew wealth from, he also understood the importance of place.


How do you think Trump personally dealt with his miraculous brush with death? It really is riveting to watch someone go


through this change, to watch them recognize the importance of faith and God in their lives and embrace it robustly. Oftentimes we talk about the prospect of an awakening, a collec- tive surge toward embracing faith — this has happened in our country before. This was a personal awakening. After you read this book, you cannot doubt that this is what has hap- pened to this man.


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VICTIM Volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore was hit and killed by one of the bullets fired at then-candidate Donald Trump by Thomas Crooks. Comperatore, a veteran, died trying to shield his wife and two daughters in the stands behind the podium. Two other men were critically injured.


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