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High crimes : the corruption, impunity, and impeachment of Donald Trump

Title
High crimes : the corruption, impunity, and impeachment of Donald Trump / Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner.
ISBN
9781250766670
1250766672
9781250766687
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York, NY : Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2020.
Copyright Notice Date
©2020.
Physical Description
x, 436 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"Two award-winning journalists offer the most comprehensive inside story behind our most significant modern political drama: the House impeachment of Donald Trump. Having spent a year essentially embedded inside several House committees, Michael D'Antonio and Peter Eisner draw on many sources, including key House leaders, to expose the politicking, playcalling, and strategies debated backstage and to explain the Democrats' successes and apparent public failures during the show itself. High Crimes opens with Nancy Pelosi deciding the House should take up impeachment, then, in part one, leaps back to explain what Ukraine was really all about: not just Joe Biden and election interference, but a money grab and oil. In the second part, the authors recount key meetings throughout the run up to the impeachment hearings, including many of the heated confrontations between the Trump administration and House Democrats. And the third part takes readers behind the scenes of those hearings, showing why certain things happened the way they did for reasons that never came up in public. In the end, having illuminated every step of impeachment, from the schemes that led Giuliani to the Ukraine in 2016 to Fiona Hill's rebuking the Republicans' conspiracy theories, High Crimes promises to be Trump's Final Days"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 19, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [366]-426) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Part one: The call. International man of mystery ; Worlds collide ; Why not get along with Russia? ; Alternative facts and dezinformatsiya ; Forrest Gumps of the GOP ; Men on a (secret) mission ; Ambassadors, oligarchs, and mental midgets ; The three amigos ; The drug deal ; Sho? ; The whistleblower
Part two: Mueller and his report. Waiting for Mueller ; Enter William Barr ; Robert Mueller reporting ; "[Not] full exoneration" ; "You lied, and now we know" ; Conflict escalation ; Self-impeachment ; Barr's predicate ; A partisan thing ; Mueller in the House
Part three: High crimes. A profile in arrogance ; Witch hung garbage ; "Pray for the President" ; The pizza protest ; Angels ; Open hearings ; Scholars in Washington ; House rules ; Impeachment day ; The waiting game ; The real articles
Epilogue: This is what autocracy looks like.
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