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WTH is going on in the White House? Authors of ‘A Very Stable Genius’ on Trump’s genius and not so genius qualities

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In their new bestselling book, “A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America,” Pulitzer Prize winning authors Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker provide detailed reporting on President Donald Trump’s character, his leadership, and his personal and political style.

Leonnig and Rucker recount a number of incidents that have come to shape perceptions of the Trump administration, including the infamous Tank meeting, Trump’s apparent ignorance of what happened at Pearl Harbor, and more. But Dany and Marc also press the authors on the president’s strengths and the qualities that may in fact make him “genius”—though perhaps not always stable.

Carol Leonnig is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner and veteran investigative reporter at the Washington Post. Philip Rucker is the White House Bureau Chief at the Washington Post and part of the team of Post reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize and George Polk Award for their reporting on Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election.

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