Watching President Donald Trump in the White House Coronavirus Task Force briefing go through company-after-company and government project-after-government project which are fighting the pandemic, it hit me that we were seeing something America has done before. We are mobilizing as a people to win a war.
Vice President Mike Pence has been talking about an “all of America” effort to defeat COVID-19. Now we were beginning to see what all of America can do when it is mobilized.
Small businesses are on the front lines of the economy, and they are among the biggest casualties of the coronavirus pandemic. Fortunately, President Trump signed a $2 trillion stimulus bill last week to provide relief to these job creators.
On this week’s
episode of my podcast Newt’s World, I discuss Shakedown and the geopolitical situation — both historical and current — on which the book is based.
President Trump cuts through the FDA red tape to get hydroxycholorquine and chloroquine, the anti-malaria drugs, distributed to hospitals across the country. This virus will be stopped by American ingenuity.
Order Shakedown: A Novel by Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley
New York Times best-selling authors Newt Gingrich and Pete Earley are back with SHAKEDOWN, the second in their riveting series of ripped-from-the-headlines political thrillers featuring Valerie Mayberry and Brett Garrett. As this unlikely pair—a disgraced former FBI agent and a dishonorably discharged ex-Navy SEAL— team to avert a deadly crisis with Iran, they once again operate outside official channels, caught between competing world powers as they race to avoid both an international incident and certain danger to themselves.
Ellis the Elephant is back, and he’s headed to the White House! In Hail to the Chief, the sixth in Callista Gingrich’s New York Times best-selling series, Ellis meets some of America’s greatest presidents and discovers how they have led our country throughout American history.
