On November 8, 2016, after an extremely polarizing election campaign and surprising to many, Donald J. Trump was elected President of the USA for the first time and was sworn in as the 45th US President on January 20, 2017. For a year, Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director Liz Garbus accompanied the editorial staff of The New York Times in Washington DC and New York City as they reported on Trump and his administration. From his oath of office to the first signs of Russian election manipulation to Trump’s increasingly vehement attacks on the “fake news” media, journalists quickly realized that they were dealing with the most unusual president of all time. But while the investigative journalists relentlessly expose the machinations of the Trump administration and the White House becomes deeper and deeper entangled in the Russia scandal and internal intrigues, the renowned newspaper is fighting for its economic survival. And this despite the fact that their readership has never been larger. A two-part documentary about perhaps the most dangerous US president of all time, his frontal attack on the foundations of American democracy – and the enormous responsibility of the media as the fourth estate in the state.
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