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Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Maggie Haberman is the co-author of the new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump. In the book, Haberman and her fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan provide an inside look at how the administration has handled many of the biggest crises of Trump's second term.
Haberman, who has been reporting on Trump since the 1990s, details his frequent attacks on the press over critical reporting, particularly against female reporters. She also discusses the renewed controversy over his close aide Natalie Harp, whom Haberman describes as "something like a human binky" for Trump.
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Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general cleared a major hurdle this week after two Republican senators who had raised concerns agreed to back him. Blanche gave written assurances that a $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" designed to pay Trump allies would not be resurrected, and that a settlement between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service only gave the president retroactive immunity from audits rather than perpetual protection. The Senate Judiciary Committee votes on Blanche's nomination Tuesday, with the full Senate expected to vote later in the week. Blanche, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and acting attorney general since April, has been central in many of the administration's most controversial episodes, including prosecutions of Trump opponents and the botched rollout of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
If confirmed, Blanche would entrench a culture of corruption at the Justice Department, warns legal expert Norm Eisen. "There have been a series of offenses against the rule of law, miscarriages of justice," he tells Democracy Now!
Eisen is co-founder and executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund. He previously served as White House special counsel for ethics and government reform in the Obama administration. The Justice Department recently dropped charges against his client, former Olympic athlete Davey Hearn, who had been accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Reuters/GettyWelcome to October Surprise, the Daily Beast's daily countdown to the biggest election of our lifetime. It's only 20 days until Election Day and here's what's happening in the race to the White House between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
THE DOWNLOADMore than 100 Republican officials who support Kamala Harris for president planned to join the vice president in Pennsylvania on Wednesday for a stunning public rebuke of Donald Trump, their own party's presidential candidate.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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