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The plot against the president : the true story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the biggest political scandal in US history / Lee Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Center Street, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First editionDescription: 360 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781546085027
  • 1546085025
Subject(s):
Contents:
"Objective Medusa" -- Enemies of the state -- Framing Trump: The Russia job -- The protodossiers -- The fusion Russians -- The avatar -- The insurance policy -- Obama's dossier -- The press breaks -- Blood in the water -- Becoming Deep Throat -- The valley of death -- Objective Medusa on offense -- The paper coup -- Dirty cops -- The deep state digs in -- The decoy -- The Nunes memo -- The cavalry arrives -- The forgers -- The harvest -- The possessed -- A reckoning -- Convictions.
Summary: Investigative journalist Lee Smith tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, the real damage was done not by Moscow or any other foreign actor. Rather, this was a slow-moving coup engineered by a coterie of the American elite, the "deep state," targeting not only the president, but also the rest of the country. The plot officially began July 31, 2016, with the counterintelligence investigation that the FBI opened to probe Russian infiltration of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But the bureau never followed any Russians. In fact, it was an operation to sabotage Trump the candidate, then president-elect, and finally the presidency. The conspirators included political operatives, law enforcement, intelligence officials, and the press.
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Investigative journalist Lee Smith uses his unprecedented access to Congressman Devin Nunes, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, to expose the deep state operation against the president -- and the American people.
Investigative journalist Lee Smith's The Plot Against the President tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, the real damage was done not by Moscow or any other foreign actor. Rather, this was a slow-moving coup engineered by a coterie of the American elite, the "deep state," targeting not only the president, but also the rest of the country.
The plot officially began July 31, 2016 with the counterintelligence investigation that the FBI opened to probe Russian infiltration of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But the bureau never followed any Russians. In fact, it was an operation to sabotage Trump, the candidate, then president-elect, and finally the presidency. The conspirators included political operatives, law enforcement and intelligence officials, and the press.
The plot was uncovered by Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and his investigative team. They understood that the target of the operation wasn't just Trump, but rather the institutions that sustain our republic. A country where operatives use the intelligence and security services to protect their privileges by spying on Americans, coordinating with the press, and using extra-constitutional means to undermine an election then undo a presidency is more like the third world than the republic envisioned by the founding fathers.
Without Nunes and his team, the plot against the president -- and against the country -- never would have been revealed. Told from the perspective of Nunes and his crack investigators -- men and women who banded together to do the right thing at a crucial moment for our democracy -- the story of the biggest political scandal in a generation reads like a great detective novel, feels like a classic cowboy movie. The congressman from the cattle capital of California really did fight corruption in Washington. Devin Nunes took on the "deep state."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Objective Medusa" -- Enemies of the state -- Framing Trump: The Russia job -- The protodossiers -- The fusion Russians -- The avatar -- The insurance policy -- Obama's dossier -- The press breaks -- Blood in the water -- Becoming Deep Throat -- The valley of death -- Objective Medusa on offense -- The paper coup -- Dirty cops -- The deep state digs in -- The decoy -- The Nunes memo -- The cavalry arrives -- The forgers -- The harvest -- The possessed -- A reckoning -- Convictions.

Investigative journalist Lee Smith tells the story of how Congressman Devin Nunes uncovered the operation to bring down the commander-in-chief. While popular opinion holds that Russia subverted democratic processes during the 2016 elections, the real damage was done not by Moscow or any other foreign actor. Rather, this was a slow-moving coup engineered by a coterie of the American elite, the "deep state," targeting not only the president, but also the rest of the country. The plot officially began July 31, 2016, with the counterintelligence investigation that the FBI opened to probe Russian infiltration of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But the bureau never followed any Russians. In fact, it was an operation to sabotage Trump the candidate, then president-elect, and finally the presidency. The conspirators included political operatives, law enforcement, intelligence officials, and the press.

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