![]() “Like a lot of people working from home during the pandemic, I felt stuck and found myself reassessing my life,” Tur says. “This book isn’t supposed to exist,” she writes in the first line of the prologue, but a perfect storm of events led her to publish it. He is also a towering character in Tur’s autobiography Rough Draft: A Memoir-available now. Katy covering a Trump rally in Northern California the summer of 2016. “He’s still a major story because there was an attempt to overthrow democracy, and he might run again,” says Tur, who has also reported for a number of NBC platforms such as Today, Meet the Press, and Nightly News. In late March, I Zoom with Tur from her office in New York City just after she finished taping her afternoon MSNBC news show, Katy Tur Reports, where amid reporting on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine and yet another wave of the pandemic, she’s still talking about Trump, anchoring a segment on the House Select Committee trying to piece together the seven-hour gap in the former president’s phone logs on the day of the Jan. “I was asked a lot about how I was able to deal with the whiplash between his criticism and his praise and just the erratic nature of his campaign personality.” “It was the same on the campaign trail,” Tur tells me. He routinely called her out, noticeably more often than other reporters, to either compliment or condemn her, depending on his mood. When she was on the press circuit for her first book, about covering the campaign, talk show hosts wanted to know what was up with Trump’s fixation with her. That one-off assignment turned into a job that would change her life-following Trump for 510 days on the campaign trail. ![]() She was just surprised he knew who she was. “He seemed to approve of that,” Tur recalls. Tur yelled back that she was tweeting out what he was saying. “Katy Tur, you’re not paying attention!” the would-be Republican nominee said when he saw her typing into her phone as he was speaking to the crowd. The gig was to report on a Trump campaign event that was being held in the backyard of a house in New Hampshire. It was 2015 and the NBC foreign correspondent-now anchor for the network-was in New York City visiting from London, where she was living at the time, when a colleague volunteered her for a last-minute assignment. The first time Donald Trump spoke to Katy Tur it was to chastise her.
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