TONIGHT: Get Club food delivery discount, food for thought from two authors on books about Trump, Clinton probes

National Press Club board member Del Wilber continues his virtual COVID Conversations series at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Michael Schmidt and Devlin Barrett talking about their critically acclaimed new books exploring the tumultuous investigations into President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

To join the conversation, please email Wilber at [email protected]. On Oct. 4, he will send you instructions for joining the conversation over Zoom. 

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Schmidt's work, "Donald Trump v. The United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a President," explores Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election and the president's efforts to derail the probe.

The book was described by Kirkus as "a detailed, deeply reported portrait of a president willfully obstructing justice — with plenty of help." The Washington Post said the book "offers a powerful accounting of the lawlessness and chaos that is President Trump."

In "October Surprise: How the FBI Tried to Save Itself and Crashed an Election," Barrett delves into the FBI's inquiry into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and how its bungling changed the outcome of the 2016 campaign. His publisher describes the book as a "pulsating narrative of an agency seized with righteous certainty that waded into the most important political moment in the life of the nation, and has no idea how to back out with dignity."

Schmidt is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington correspondent for The New York Times. Over his 15 years at the Times, he has covered the investigations of the Trump presidency, the Pentagon, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and the war in Iraq. He started his career at the Times as a clerk answering the phones on the foreign desk before becoming a sports reporter covering performance-enhancing drugs and legal issues. He is a graduate of Lafayette College.

Barrett writes about the FBI and the Justice Department. He was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for national reporting, for coverage of Russian interference in the U.S. election. In 2017 he was a co-finalist for both the Pulitzer for Feature Writing and the Pulitzer for International Reporting. He has covered federal law enforcement for more than 20 years, and has worked at The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press and the New York Post.