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Martin Pengelly in Washington

James Brown’s cape and Rudy gone wild: key takeaways from Haberman’s Trump book

Donald Trump.
Donald Trump. New book claims former US president hates Mitch McConnell. Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images

Maggie Haberman’s new book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, was published in the US on Tuesday. As is now customary for books about the 45th president, its revelations have been widely reported.

But thanks to the New York Times reporter’s dominance of the Trump beat – before his time in power, through it and after – the intensity of interest has perhaps outweighed that for any other such book.

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