Find me the votes : a hard-charging Georgia prosecutor, a rogue president, and the plot to steal an American election

Find me the votes A hard-charging Georgia prosecutor, a rogue president, and the plot to steal an American election

Michael Isikoff

Book - 2024

"In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump's crimes as a voting rights case, and an attempt by the former president to deprive the citizens of Georgia of the franchise, a right for which her forebears had bled. Isikoff and Klaidman take us deep inside both the nerve center of Trump's effort to steal the election and the DA's team of prosecutors as ...they build their case against the president. Their reporting reveals new information on the plot to criminally seize voting equipment in several states; Sidney Powell's attempt to obtain preemptive pardons from Trump; and revelatory communications between the president and his co-conspirators. We see the prosecution take shape in Willis's office in the face of heinous threats of violent retaliation from Trump's supporters. With blockbuster original reporting and exclusive access to thousands of secret documents, emails, text messages, and audio recordings, Find Me the Votes is investigative journalism at its finest. The authors also conducted exclusive interviews with key sources in the Trump conspiracy, as well as with the president's top targets, including Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger and the Fulton County DA's team-featuring hours of interviews with Fani Willis herself. This is riveting contemporary history, and a lasting account of the prosecution of a president who tested the rule of law as no president ever had before. Isikoff and Klaidman have written a story for the ages."--

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Subjects
Trump, Donald, > 1946- > Trials, litigation, etc.
Willis, Fani Taifa, > 1971-
Trump, Donald, > 1946-
Georgia. > Superior Court (Fulton County) > Trials, litigation, etc.
Elections > Corrupt practices > United States > Cases.
Presidents > United States > Election > 2020.
Public prosecutors > Georgia > Fulton County.
Presidents > Election > Corrupt practices > United States > Cases.
Political corruption > United States > History > 21st century.
Elections > Corrupt practices > United States.
Georgia > Trials, litigation, etc.
United States > Politics and government > 2017-2021.
Published
New York, NY : Twelve, Hachette Book Group 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Michael Isikoff (author)
Other Authors
Daniel Klaidman (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
xv, 329 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-318) and index.
ISBN
9781538739990
  • Cast of Characters
  • Prologue: The Body Double
  • Book 1. The Making of a DA
  • Chapter 1. Badass
  • Chapter 2. The Law-and-Order Candidate
  • Chapter 3. Chaos in Atlanta
  • Book 2. A Conspiracy in Plain Sight
  • Chapter 4. A Confederate in the Attic
  • Chapter 5. The Targeting of Innocents
  • Chapter 6. The QAnon Commission
  • Chapter 7. The Republican Stone Wall
  • Chapter 8. The "Perfect" Phone Call from Hell
  • Book 3. The State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump
  • Chapter 9. The DA Speaks
  • Chapter 10. A Raid in Rural Georgia
  • Chapter 11. A Threat from Trump
  • Chapter 12. A Very Special Grand Juror
  • Chapter 13. A True Bill
  • Epilogue: The Mug Shot
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Reporting and Sources
  • Index
Review by Kirkus Book Review

The full story behind Donald Trump's alleged efforts to fix the vote in Georgia. The spur for Fani Willis to file charges against Trump, write veteran journalists Isikoff and Klaidman, was Trump's call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, with Trump's much-aired plea, "Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break." Willis, a county prosecutor, has been accused of reaching beyond her bailiwick, but one end of that recorded call happened in her county, the other in Florida--and though Florida requires that both parties to a call consent to its being recorded, that requirement is waived in the case of law enforcement. Isikoff and Klaidman reveal that Trump was fixated on Georgia, which he fervently believed he should have won, overlooking the increasing blueness of the state's most populous counties. He was seemingly obsessed with the thought that two Black election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, had miscounted the vote to deliver the state to Biden. As Freeman later remarked, "Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?" Trump's "laser-focus" on Georgia yielded much illegal activity from his administration and followers, including a plot to plant a slate of false electors, but also threats of violence against election workers and officials. One recipient was Raffensperger, who was oddly reluctant all the same to participate in Willis' case, having "made it clear from the start that if he was going to talk, he wanted a grand jury subpoena first." In many respects, Isikoff and Klaidman make Willis' case for her, though it awaits a courtroom airing, and they document beyond reasonable doubt the desperate efforts of Trump and company to subvert the democratic process. A prime source for those following the chain of trials awaiting the disgraced former president. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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