My book "It Was All a Lie" will be published on Aug. 4th by @AAKnopf. Leading up to that, thought I'd share some passages to give a sense of the book. Hope you will consider pre-ordering through your local bookstore or here: https://bit.ly/itwasallalie 

"As much as I'd love to go to bed at night reassuring myself that Donald Trump was some freak product of the system - a "black swan," - as his ludicrously unqualified son-in-law says - I can't do it. I can't keep lying to myself to ward off the depressing reality that I had

"been lying to myself for decades. There is nothing strange or unexpected about Donald Trump. He is the logical conclusion of what the Republican Party became over the last fifty years, a natural product of the seeds of race, self-deception, and anger that became the essence of

"the Republican Party. Trump isn't an aberration of the Republican Party, he is the Republican Party in a purified form. Hold Donald Trump up to the mirror and that bulging, grotesque orange face is today's Republican Party."