Mike McCormick
Author of Six Books
Mike McCormick recorded and documented the words of presidents and vice presidents during his time at the White House, traveling the globe aboard Air Force One and Air Force Two, both with and without the American press, while transcribing the official archival record. This background of fifteen years of firsthand experience in the nation’s capital, working near the country’s presidents, has uniquely positioned him to write his four recent books reporting on the contemporary American political landscape of scandal, secrets, and internationally consequential decision-making.
McCormick’s most recent book is the novel The Big Burn, a story set in a funeral camp where families go to nurse their grief—and to burn their dead “Viking style.” It is a tale of a uniquely American business and an ensemble of distinctive characters confronting love, death, and redemption.
McCormick’s up close experience observing America’s political and media leaders—and the international crises shaped by their decisions and reporting—is examined regularly on his Substack, Midnight in the Laptop of Good and Evil.
His 2025 book, An Almost Insurmountable Evil, examined the entanglements between the deep state and the Catholic Church; his 2023 book, The Case to Impeach and Imprison Joe Biden, lays out the facts that accumulated during the president’s years in office, as well as the emerging backstory from the years preceding his presidency, painting a damaging picture of compromise and risk.
In his 2020 book Joe Biden Unauthorized, McCormick recounts his travels while assigned to Biden’s office, including trips to Ukraine, China, Turkey, and elsewhere. He describes deal-making in Hollywood, angry and unrestrained diatribes in which Biden lashes out at his own audiences, and policy debacles that saw American cash shipped directly to narco-traffickers in the Northern Triangle of Central America. From behind the scenes, McCormick traces the origins of the Ukraine corruption story to meetings in Washington, D.C., details how foreign leaders maneuvered Biden into humiliating public spectacles on their own soil, and examines how Biden’s family became entangled in the official duties of the Office of the Vice President.
Mike McCormick is also the author of Fifteen Years A Deplorable: A White House Memoir (2019), which details his years working for Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump, traveling the globe and of working late at night at the White House “until the ghosts come out.”
Mike lives in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
(Photo, lower) Mike McCormick, solo stenographer supporting Vice President Dick Cheney, Al-Asad Air Base, Iraq, December 18, 2005. (White House/David Bohrer)
