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Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This book will reveal the heart of the hostile bureaucratic network that has been operating in the shadows until the American people voted Trump into office. Trump's determination to transform the government, wipe out the swamp, and reduce the power of the bureaucratic machine has set him on a collision course with agencies populated by a workforce resistant to the American people's agenda. That collision, however, is one that the president is prepared...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Washington Post journalists Rachael Bade and Karoun Demirjian write about the inner workings of President Trump's impeachment.
"A revealing, behind-the-scenes examination of how Congress twice fumbled its best chance to hold accountable a president many considered one of the most dangerous in American history. The definitive--and only--insider account of both Trump impeachments, as told by the two reporters on the front lines covering them for the...
Author
Publisher
Regnery Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Matthew Whitaker came to Washington to serve as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and following Sessions's resignation, he was appointed Acting Attorney General of the United States. A former football player at the University of Iowa who had been confirmed by the Senate as a U.S. Attorney, Whitaker was devoted to the ideals of public service and the rule of law. But what he found when he led the Department of Justice on behalf of President...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An extraordinary view into the politics of our times, Tired of Winning explores how Donald Trump remade the Republican Party in his own image--and the wreckage he's left in his wake. Packed with new reporting, Tired of Winning: Donald Trump and the End of the Grand Old Party tracks Trump's improbable journey from disgraced and defeated former president to the dominant force, yet again, in the Republican Party. From his exile in Mar-a-Lago, Donald...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major official to endorse Donald Trump. A friend of Trump's for fifteen years, the two-term New Jersey governor understood the future president as well as anyone in the political arena--and Christie quickly became one of Trump's most trusted advisers. Tapped with running Trump's transition team, Christie was nearly named his running mate....
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
America rolled into 2020 like a juggernaut, with the strongest economy in its history and a renewed leadership role on the world stage. President Trump was cruising to reelection on the strength of record low unemployment, phase one of a historic trade deal, and a more stable Middle East after the defeat of ISIS. Then, catastrophe struck. A novel coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China, swept the world, taking hundreds of thousands of lives and wreaking...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based on extensive reporting, a Game of Thrones-like telling of what comes next for the factions and families within the Republican Party as they plot for supremacy in the post-Trump era. With Trump's four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is concluded. The transition, however, has set off a mad scramble for control of a Republican Party that for so long has reflected the domineering...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia's election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"No one is above the law. This belief is as American as freedom of speech and turkey on Thanksgiving--held sacred by Democrats and Republicans alike. But as celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal argues in Impeach, if President Trump is not held accountable for repeatedly asking foreign powers to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, this could very well mark the end of our democracy. To quote President...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
"Por que Donald Trump fue electo presidente de Estados Unidos? Su victoria electoral dice mucho sobre el pais mas poderoso del mundo y sus ciudadanos, pero tambien sobre nosotros como sociedad. Ahora, ante la xenofobia, la misoginia, el nacionalismo, el populismo y otros azotes caracteristicos de ese regimen, cuales son las mayores amenazas para la region? Con el mejor estilo de los panfletos y libelos politicos de los siglos xix y xx, Jorge Volpi...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jarrett, a Fox News legal analyst, reveals the real story behind Hillary Clinton's deep state collaborators in government and exposes their nefarious actions during and after the 2016 election. He reveals how persons within the FBI and Barack Obama's Justice Department worked improperly to help elect Hillary Clinton and defeat Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the spread of the coronavirus to the highs and lows of the economy, the 2020 election will continue America's process of change. Gingrich goes back to the summer to 2015 to show how the radical Democratic Left is continuing its all out efforts to destroy President Trump and his followers. He puts the changes into context, and outlines the choices Americans face in what will be the most decisive election of our lifetimes. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and cohost of Pod Save America, a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump, McConnell, Fox News, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. There is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: first, Trump...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
President Trump tries to convince the American people that he's the greatest, least criminal president in history as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer attempt to win back the Democratic base from newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Trump also tries to get the American people to pay for Trump Tower-Moscow, prove he's mentally fit enough to possess the nuclear codes and solve climate change to stop his sweating problem.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
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,...
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