Rep. Adam Schiff will tell the story of the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump in a new book, Politico reports.
Random House will publish the California Democrat’s Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could this fall. On a webpage for the book, the publisher describes it as “the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever.”
Schiff, who represents parts of Los Angeles and surrounding areas in the U.S. House, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and was the lead impeachment manager in the ex-president’s first impeachment trial in 2020.
In a news release, Schiff says, “I wanted to relate the private struggles, the triumphs of courage, but more often, the slow surrender of people I worked with and admired to the shameful immorality of a president who could not be trusted.”
“In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism,” Random House says.
Midnight in Washington is slated for publication on Oct. 26.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.
