Bombshell book will be "damaging" to Trump: analyst After a year of scandals from the White House, the claims in a new bombshell book will be taken seriously according to Elaine Kamarck, a Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution. But Kamarck says that claims that Donald Trump personally met with Russian contacts will be more damaging to him, as will the president distancing himself from former aide Stave Bannon and his supporters. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES