Overview
- Senior officials are holding private talks about possible leaks from Oval Office and Situation Room meetings to the authors, according to Axios and other outlets.
- Simon & Schuster plans to publish Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump on June 23, according to Axios.
- The book draws on roughly 1,000 interviews and more than two years of reporting by New York Times journalists Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
- After President Trump attacked Maggie Haberman on Truth Social in March and threatened legal action, he met with Haberman and Swan for an hour-long Oval Office interview later that month.
- Early reporting from the book says top advisers, including John Ratcliffe and Marco Rubio, derided an Israeli briefing on Iran as “farcical” and “bulls***,” pointing to sharp internal debate over Iran policy.