What it’s like to work for an American dictator in the making
Donald Trump saw strongman leaders like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping as an exclusive club, writes former senior US official Fiona Hill in a new memoir.
Many people who tried to work for Donald Trump were either discarded or bitterly disillusioned.
Few have given more eloquent testimony of what it felt like to work closely with the former US president than Fiona Hill, who served as senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council in the Trump White House from 2017 to 2019. Her memoir is a valuable and riveting historic document. She left the Trump administration in no doubt that her erstwhile boss was an American dictator in the making.
Gideon RachmanColumnistGideon Rachman is chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.
