Overview
- Regime Change was published Tuesday, June 23, 2026, and the authors promoted it with broadcast interviews that highlighted its central claims.
- Haberman and Swan report that a ‘tiny group’ of five or six loyalists around President Trump made major national security and policy choices rather than full institutional teams.
- The book says Treasury and Energy secretaries and the director of national intelligence were excluded from high-level Iran war planning, a lapse the authors link to untested economic and operational risks.
- The authors identify Susie Wiles and a close core of political loyalists as gatekeepers who reshaped access to the president and centralized power inside the West Wing.
- Reporting is based on hundreds of insider interviews and has prompted wide media attention and requests for White House comment, though some operational details and private motives cited in the book remain unverified.