The plot to betray America How team Trump embraced our enemies, compromised our security, and how we can fix it

Malcolm W. Nance

Book - 2019

When former FBI Director Robert Mueller III was assigned to the Special Counsel investigation looking into the possibility of Russian interference in the 2016 US election, many Americans felt relieved. But when the report was delivered in April 2019, it was clear that the case was far from closed-and pinning Trump down on conspiracy charges was going to be a lot more difficult than it had first seemed. In The Plot to Betray America, Malcolm Nance, New York Times bestselling author and renowned intelligence expert, reveals exactly how Trump and his inner circle conspired, coordinated, communicated, and eventually strategized to commit the greatest act of treachery in the history of the United States: compromising his presidential oath of off...ice in exchange for power and personal enrichment... In this geopolitical page-turner, The Plot to Betray America ultimately sketches the tracks and blueprint of the Trump administration's conspiracy against our country-and how we can still fight to defend democracy, protect our national security, and save the Constitution.--Provided by publisher.

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Published
New York : Hachette Books 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Malcolm W. Nance (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
ix, 358 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-342) and index.
ISBN
9780316535762
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Review by Booklist Review

A lot has happened during the nearly three years of Donald Trump's presidency, virtually all of it designed to undermine our democracy, counterintelligence expert Nance (The Plot to Hack America, 2018; The Plot to Destroy Democracy, 2016) argues. With this book he concludes a three-part investigation with a compendium of the concerted efforts of Trump and his inner circle to subvert the presidency and turn the White House into a vehicle for personal gain. From Russia's interference in the 2016 election to the spin following the release of the Mueller report, Nance reveals how the Trump administration has operated with deflection and efficiency, deploying a team of dissemblers to tout the president's propaganda about fake news and no collusion while simultaneously obstructing any and all attempts to investigate mounting violations of constitutional law and presidential norms. Succinctly recapping the many interconnected Trump scandals and instances of irresponsible and dangerous behavior, Nance methodically illuminates established facts and their consequences and offers new revelations and insights in an evidential fashion. The result is sobering, consequential, and urgent.--Carol Haggas Copyright 2019 Booklist

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Review by Kirkus Book Review

Thirty pieces of silver or a few billion rubles: By counterterrorism expert Nance's account, either adds up to treason.In his predecessor volume The Plot To Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West (2018), the author gave Donald Trump some benefit of the doubt with the thought that perhaps he'd unwittingly fallen into schemes on the part of Russian intelligence, being "too stupid to suss it out." Here, in an account that begins with Trump's plea during the 2016 campaign for Russia, "if you're listeningto find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Nance holds that Trump's open act of soliciting the aid of a foreign and rival government was an act of treasonand a knowing one as well. The pairing was natural, by the author's account, since Russia harbored the same hatred for nonheterosexuals and nonwhites that the Republican Party so openly manifests. Nance's argument is scattershot and heated, but he does a good job of showing how the Russian campaign to infiltrate the Trump campaign was staged and was so willingly accepted, with key agents taking roles in the Miss Universe contest, swaying the National Rifle Association, and conning Donald Trump Jr., "an avid shooter of defenseless animals." Moreover, he shows that Trump had opened the door for all of this collusion decades earlier, when he signaled that only he could make the decisions necessary to fix the world's problems, taking out a full-page New York Times ad in 1987 to condemn NATO and demand that the U.S. "stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves," exactly in keeping with the Russian line. Trump emerges as treasonous, to be sure, as do others in his administration, notably Attorney General William Barrand the book is timely, inasmuch as they're now busily explaining new charges of collusion with Ukraine and other nations in the 2020 campaign.Occasionally overwrought but right on the money in enumerating Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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