The Fixers
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
This definitive account reveals the lawyers and media moguls who facilitated Donald Trump's rise, featuring new insights from a Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal team. With his notorious fame and self-created myths, Trump has always inhabited a realm filled with gossip barons, unscrupulous lawyers, and adult film stars. When he became the Republican nominee in 2016, these figures emerged from the shadows of his celebrity to join him on the world stage. The authors, Joe Palazzolo and Michael Rothfeld, present a meticulously researched portrait of this landscape, uncovering secret communications and desperate deals, including the controversial practice of "catch and kill," where Trump associates paid hush money to conceal his affairs. The narrative explores Trump's historical ties to fixers like Roy Cohn, Michael Cohen, David Pecker, and Rudy Giuliani, tracing their interactions from the 1970s through the 2016 campaign and beyond. This distinctly American saga navigates the intersections of reality TV, sensational tabloids, small law firms, celebrity events, high-end real estate, and politics. The book paints a vivid picture of a chaotic circus that spans from New York to L.A. to D.C., offering a terrifying, darkly comedic, and engrossing political adventure where greed, corruption, lust, and ambition converge, ultimately leading to the White House.
