Other sections of the book, meanwhile, are hard to get through without a creeping sense of dread.

And October 7 was Vladimir Putin’s sixty-fourth birthday.” presidential race was essentially in chaos. But they couldn’t resist dropping a delicious, last detail: “The U.S. Isikoff and Corn play it mostly straight, recounting how that train wreck of an afternoon played out at Clinton campaign headquarters and at Trump Tower. Soon reporters would be mining a document dump that included both serious campaign communications and Podesta’s risotto recipe. Some 2,000 messages from Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta’s personal Gmail account were posted immediately WikiLeaks claimed to have tens of thousands more.

Just when you thought the afternoon could not possibly get nuttier, 4:32 p.m. At 4:02 p.m., David Fahrenthold of the Washington Post tweeted, “stand by for some news about One minute later, his story on the “Access Hollywood,” “Grab ‘em by the pussy” video went live, instantly imperiling Trump’s candidacy.Īnd still the news gods were not done. But before I finished filing for the NPR newscast, another shoe dropped. 7 off, and I have a vivid memory of standing on the sideline of my son’s soccer practice, scanning the statement on my phone and realizing that my weekend was shot. political organizations.” In other words, the leaders of the intelligence community were for the first time publicly fingering Russia for the Democratic National Committee hack, and not only that: “Only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.” persons and institutions, including from U.S. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security released a terse statement, declaring that Russia had “directed the recent compromises of emails from U.S.

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