In this podcast episode, Asian Insider host Nirmal Ghosh (left) speaks to Steve Herman (right), former Voice of America White House Bureau Chief. A book by a veteran correspondent who covered the Donald Trump presidency closely, offers lessons as the embattled former President fights back with a bid for a second term. In ST’s Asian Insider Podcast, Nirmal Ghosh hosts author Steven L.
Herman, former Voice of America (VOA) White House Bureau Chief during the Trump presidency. Mr Herman, also a longstanding foreign correspondent with past assignments in Tokyo, Seoul, New Delhi and Bangkok, is currently VOA’s chief national correspondent. Notwithstanding one conviction, and other pending cases against him, Mr Trump remains the frontrunner for the Republican nomination this year - and thus has a realistic chance of being elected United States President again in November.
The Republican Party’s Convention is set for July 15-18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and thus far, no credible challenger to Trump has emerged. Mr Trump has been roughly neck and neck with his rival - President Joe Biden - in polls in a bitterly divided nation. This raises the question of what to expect in an albeit hypothetical second Trump administration.
A look back at Trump’s tumultuous four years in office (2017 through 2020) through the pages of the new book - Behind The White House Curtain: A Senior Journalist’s Story Of Covering the President - And Why It Matters - holds some clues as to what to expe.
