True crimes and misdemeanors : the investigation of Donald Trump / Jeffrey Toobin.
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- ISBN: 9780385536738
- ISBN: 0385536739
- Physical Description: pages cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York City : Doubleday, [2020]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | October Surprises -- Loyalty and Honest Loyalty -- Lifting the Cloud -- "I faced great pressure ..." -- "This is the worst thing that ever happened to me." -- Patriots Plaza -- "Do you think Putin will ... become my new best friend?" -- " ... this dumb meeting which your father insisted on" -- "I would love to speak, I would love to ..." -- The $15,000 Ostrich Jacket -- "Being Patriotic" -- Doing a Frank Pentangeli -- Flipping Rick Gates -- "Cut the bullshit, Bob" -- "Michael Avenatti's Presidential Campaign -- "A TOTAL WITCH HUNT!!!" -- "Truth Isn't Truth" -- "There's tears in your eyes" -- Friends in High Places -- There's nothing ambiguous about crosshairs -- " ... the immense burden the process imposed on the President and his Office" -- "Thank you to my new friend Rudy Giuliani for your ..." -- Fraud Guaranteed -- "Ultimate Conclusions" -- "Talk to Rudy, Talk to Rudy" -- "I would like you to do us a favor though" -- "The Times Have Found Us" -- "It reads like a classic organized crime shakedown . . ." -- "the deep disappointment and dismay I have felt as these events have unfolded" -- Two Kinds of Pizza -- "I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative . . ." -- " ... in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America . . ." -- "Speaker Pelosi wanted leverage . . ." -- "Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery . . ." -- "A lot of people forget Abe Lincoln." |
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Publishers Weekly Review
True Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Investigation of Donald Trump
Publishers Weekly
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CNN legal analyst Toobin (American Heiress) delivers a vivid and doggedly reported rundown of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and the impeachment of Donald Trump over the Ukraine affair. Drawing on interviews with more than 100 people, Toobin crafts an immersive narrative rich with insider details and astute observations. He credits teams led by Mueller and Congressman Adam Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, with doing excellent work under difficult circumstances, yet contends that Mueller's "caution and reticence led him to fail at his two most important tasks": getting a consequential interview with Trump, and delivering a comprehensible final report that couldn't be misrepresented by the president's allies, in particular Attorney General William Barr. Mueller established multiple instances of obstruction of justice, Toobin notes, yet "placed Trump effectively above the law" by refusing to say whether he should be prosecuted. Lucid prose, trenchant analysis, and colorful anecdotes--including the time Schiff's 13-year-old son asked if he could call his dad "sleazy" because the president had just done so--will keep readers engrossed despite knowing the outcome. The result is a definitive behind-the-scenes portrait of what these investigations accomplished, and why they didn't bring Trump down. (Aug.)
Kirkus Review
True Crimes and Misdemeanors : The Investigation of Donald Trump
Kirkus Reviews
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Has Donald Trump committed impeachable offenses? Yes--and then some, as New Yorker writer and CNN legal analyst Toobin chronicles in this catalog of crime. Robert Mueller concluded his investigation of the president's misdoings by grouping them into two broad categories. One, examining Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin, was inconclusive even though Mueller "had uncovered a genuinely massive conspiracy in Russia, stretching from the military to the private sector, to interfere in the most solid rite of our democracy"--namely, the 2016 presidential election. The other was Trump's flagrant obstruction of justice in acts committed before, during, and after the investigation, as when he fired FBI director James Comey soon after entering office. Trump has never bothered to even give the impression that he is not corrupt; when the impeachment proceedings began in 2019, he reacted by threatening and blustering while taking care not to leave a paper trail. That has always been his way, as his former attorney Michael Cohen has documented, and "Mueller's report, if read carefully, establishes that Trump committed several acts of criminal obstruction of justice." Toobin delivers a painstakingly constructed record of Trump's crimes, never mincing words: For example, were it not for Rudolph Giuliani's ineptitude as an attorney, "Donald Trump would not have been impeached." In the months since his impeachment, Trump has bungled everything he's touched. For one, writes Toobin, "Trump addressed the coronavirus the same way that he confronted his Russia and Ukraine scandals--with bluster, blame shifting, vindictiveness, and lies." It's a depressing record, and Toobin's careful narrative yields mostly despair for the fate of the republic. As he concludes, "For Trump, his presidency was more about him that what he could accomplish," and what Trump has accomplished is mostly destruction. Think of it as a user-friendly--and utterly damning--explication of the Mueller Report. Read it. Then vote. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.