Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey discussed the new book he co-wrote about the 2024 election on ABC’s This Week.
Penguin Press will publish 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, written by Dawsey, Tyler Pager of the New York Times, and Isaac Arnsdorf of the Washington Post, on Tuesday. The press calls the book “the shocking inside story of the election that tested American democracy and would go on to shape the future of the free world.”
This Week host George Stephanopoulos asked Dawsey about President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke security protections for Mike Pompeo, his former secretary of state.
In 2022, Dawsey said, “the Iranians had gotten really close to killing Mike Pompeo….He had to be evacuated from where he was in a European city, because they realized overseas, in the period that he was out of office, that the Iranians had an active plot and knew where he was.”
Stephanopoulos noted that the authors write about Trump’s claim to have used threats of bombings to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Dawsey said he and his co-authors obtained audio recordings of fundraisers Trump spoke at in 2024. “He says to these donors, I would bomb Moscow. I told Vladimir Putin I would bomb the hell out of Moscow. It’s only a 10 percent chance he believes me, but that’s a deterrent.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
