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Proof of corruption : bribery, impeachment, and pandemic in the age of Trump / Seth Abramson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 561 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250272997
  • 1250272998
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Contents:
Introduction: The rule of law -- Manafort -- Euromaiden and Crimea -- Parnas and Fruman -- Shokin -- Kilimnik -- The Black Ledger and the Javelins -- DiGenova and Toensing -- Stone -- Giuliani -- Naftogaz -- Flirtash -- Trump-Venezuela -- Vogel and Stern -- Orban and Soros -- Leshchenko -- CrowdStrike, Onyshchenko, and Kolomoisky -- Nunes and the BLT Prime Team -- Solomon -- Poroshenko and Artemenko -- Yovanovich -- Parnas -- Hyde -- The first Trump-Zelensky call -- Zelensky and Lutsenko -- Taylor -- ABC News and the hold -- Sondland and Pompeo -- The second Trump-Zelensky call -- Sondland and Giuliani -- Trump-China -- Vindman -- The whistleblower -- Pence -- September -- Barr, Durham, and Horowitz -- Trump-Turkey -- Trump and Zelensky -- Trump-Iran -- The impeachment -- The trial -- The aftermath -- COVID-19 -- Epilogue: The unrest and the election.
Summary: The Harvard-educated defense attorney and "Newsweek" political columnist presents an in-depth account of the Ukraine scandal that exposes years of clandestine activities, explaining why Trump's corrupt international deals have been particularly consequential during the COVID-19 pandemic.Summary: Abramson traces in exacting detail the clandestine schemes of Trump and his cadre of agents and advisers from 2015 onward. While the facts of each Trump bribery scandal are complex, the pattern of corruption remains the same: seeking to appease Vladimir Putin by returning Ukraine's energy industry to Kremlin control; freezing aid to Ukraine to extort bogus "intelligence" on Joe Biden from corrupt Ukrainian prosecutors; ignoring November 2019 intelligence warning of a dangerous virus outbreak in China due to his business interests in Beijing; promoting a dangerous and ineffective treatment for COVID-19 at the behest of his richest campaign donors. With Donald Trump, all roads lead-- by design-- to personal enrichment. -- adapted from jacket
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the third volume of his Proof series, New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson takes readers on a deep dive into the Ukraine scandal, revealing it to be more sinister, complex, and transnational than previously thought. Abramson's research on Trump administration corruption positions the Ukraine scandal as the foreseeable culmination of years of clandestine machinations involving scores of players, from Beijing to Budapest, Ankara to Caracas, Warsaw to Jerusalem, Kyiv to Riyadh, and Moscow to D.C.

While many know about the July 2019 telephone call that ignited the Ukraine scandal, most don't know about the concurrent attempts by members of Trump's inner circle to take over Ukraine's national gas company and bolster dangerous pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarchs--moves that would have benefited Putin and destabilized Ukraine's government and economy.

In Beijing, Trump's dealings with the Chinese government not only enriched him and his family, but also culminated in him successfully seeking 2020 election interference from Xi Jinping in the form of closely held information about Joe Biden. In Venezuela, many of the actors involved in the Ukraine scandal engaged in similarly secretive, Kremlin-friendly negotiations that undermined U.S. policy. In Syria and Iraq, Trump's personal indebtedness to autocrats in Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE cost untold lives. And Abramson brings the story back to an increasingly fractured and depleted United States, where the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the staggering domestic consequences of the Trump administration's foreign machinations.

In Proof of Corruption , Seth Abramson lays bare Trump's decades-long pattern of corruption. This globe-spanning narrative is an urgent warning about the unprecedented threat posed by a corrupt president and his administration.

Introduction: The rule of law -- Manafort -- Euromaiden and Crimea -- Parnas and Fruman -- Shokin -- Kilimnik -- The Black Ledger and the Javelins -- DiGenova and Toensing -- Stone -- Giuliani -- Naftogaz -- Flirtash -- Trump-Venezuela -- Vogel and Stern -- Orban and Soros -- Leshchenko -- CrowdStrike, Onyshchenko, and Kolomoisky -- Nunes and the BLT Prime Team -- Solomon -- Poroshenko and Artemenko -- Yovanovich -- Parnas -- Hyde -- The first Trump-Zelensky call -- Zelensky and Lutsenko -- Taylor -- ABC News and the hold -- Sondland and Pompeo -- The second Trump-Zelensky call -- Sondland and Giuliani -- Trump-China -- Vindman -- The whistleblower -- Pence -- September -- Barr, Durham, and Horowitz -- Trump-Turkey -- Trump and Zelensky -- Trump-Iran -- The impeachment -- The trial -- The aftermath -- COVID-19 -- Epilogue: The unrest and the election.

The Harvard-educated defense attorney and "Newsweek" political columnist presents an in-depth account of the Ukraine scandal that exposes years of clandestine activities, explaining why Trump's corrupt international deals have been particularly consequential during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Includes index.

Abramson traces in exacting detail the clandestine schemes of Trump and his cadre of agents and advisers from 2015 onward. While the facts of each Trump bribery scandal are complex, the pattern of corruption remains the same: seeking to appease Vladimir Putin by returning Ukraine's energy industry to Kremlin control; freezing aid to Ukraine to extort bogus "intelligence" on Joe Biden from corrupt Ukrainian prosecutors; ignoring November 2019 intelligence warning of a dangerous virus outbreak in China due to his business interests in Beijing; promoting a dangerous and ineffective treatment for COVID-19 at the behest of his richest campaign donors. With Donald Trump, all roads lead-- by design-- to personal enrichment. -- adapted from jacket

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