Jeffrey Toobin True Crimes & Misdemeanors Hardback Book

What happens when the President of the United States engages in criminal activity? He runs for reelection. Donald Trumps campaign chairman went to jail. So did his personal lawyer. His longtime political consigliere was convicted of serious federal crimes, and his National Security Advisor pleaded guilty to several more. Multiple Russian spies were indicted in absentia. Career intelligence agents and military officers were alarmed enough by his actions as President that they alerted senior government officials and ignited the impeachment process. Yet despite all this, a yearslong inquiry led by Robert Mueller, and the third Presidential impeachment trial in American history, Donald Trump survived to run for presidency again. Why?Jeffrey Toobins highly entertaining, definitive account of the Mueller investigation and the impeachment of the President takes readers behind the scenes of the epic legal and political struggle to call Trump to account for his misdeeds. Toobin recounts the mindboggling twists and turns in the case Trumps son met with a Russian operative promising Kremlin support Trump paid a porn star $130,000 to hush up an affair Rudy Giuliani and a pair of shady UkrainianAmerican businessmen got the Justice Department to look at Russiancreated conspiracy theories. Toobin shows how Trumps canny lawyers used Muellers famous integrity against him, and how Trumps bullying and bluster cowed Republican legislators into ignoring the clear evidence of the impeachment... | Jeffrey Toobin True Crimes & Misdemeanors Hardback Book