The FRONTLINE Interviews:
Trump's Takeover
In Trump's Takeover, FRONTLINE set out to examine President Donald Trump's first year in office and his intense war for control of the GOP. While making the documentary, our journalists spoke to longtime Republican lawmakers, senior White House officials, Trump confidantes, authors and journalists. Here, you can read 16 of those interviews. The collection is part of FRONTLINE's ongoing Transparency Project. As part of that effort, we are also releasing an interactive version of Trump's Takeover (available here), which allows you to see how select quotes from the interviews below were incorporated into the documentary.
Interviews
Dave Brat
R-Va.
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Eric Cantor
Fmr. House Majority Leader
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Tom Cole
R-Okla.
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Kellyanne Conway
Counselor to the President
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Susan Davis
Congressional Correspondent, NPR
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Charlie Dent
R-Penn.
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Lisa Desjardins
PBS NewsHour
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Jeff Flake
R-Ariz.
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Josh Holmes
Fmr. McConnell Chief of Staff
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Steven Law
CEO, American Crossroads
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Corey Lewandowski
Former Trump Campaign Manager
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Frank Luntz
Republican pollster
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Mark Meadows
R-N.C., Freedom Caucus
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Ed O'Keefe
The Washington Post
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Sean Spicer
Fmr. Trump Press Secretary
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Charlie Sykes
Author, How the Right Lost its Mind
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