CLOSE TO ZERO , for the first time, tells the full story of Donald Trump's personal, biological warfare attack against the country - the very people - he was sworn to protect. That attack was the COVID-19 pandemic. What did Trump know and when did he know it? And more importantly - why did he do it? Why did the purported leader of the free world inflict the world's worst pandemic response on his own people? Award-winning journalist Jonathan Vankin explores those questions, and offers some shocking answers. From a mysterious golf course phone call from Vladimir Putin two days before the existence of a deadly new virus was revealed to the world, through his repeated declarations that the pandemic would "disappear" when he knew exactly the extreme dangers of the novel coronavirus, to his final attempt to use the COVID-19 crisis to stage a coup and install himself in power indefinitely, CLOSE TO ZERO builds the case against Trump, ultimately indicting him for deliberately causing a disaster that took more than a half-million American lives.