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Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency [Kõva köide]

  • Formaat: Hardback, 456 pages, kõrgus x laius: 228x152 mm, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Sep-2019
  • Kirjastus: Encounter Books,USA
  • ISBN-10: 1641770252
  • ISBN-13: 9781641770255
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 456 pages, kõrgus x laius: 228x152 mm, Illustrations
  • Ilmumisaeg: 26-Sep-2019
  • Kirjastus: Encounter Books,USA
  • ISBN-10: 1641770252
  • ISBN-13: 9781641770255
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Argues that corruption within the Obama administration and the illegal activities of the Clinton campaign were the real reasons behind the presidential election outcome of 2016. 30,000 first printing.

The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration. The law-enforcement and intelligence arms of government were placed in the service of the Democratic presidential bid and, failing that, were deployed against the incoming Republican administration, with the goal of strangling it in the cradle.

The media-Democrat “collusion narrative,” scandalizing Donald Trump as cat’s paw of the Russian regime, is a studiously crafted illusion.

As Secretary of State, Mrs. Clinton fashioned a homebrew email system to conduct State Department business. Inevitably, she illegally transmitted classified intelligence, destroyed tens of thousands of government files, and obstructed investigations. Yet, the Justice Department and FBI “exonerated” her, carrying out the will of President Obama, who had endorsed Clinton to be his successor and freely exchanged sensitive emails with her.

Despite Clinton’s commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an “insurance policy” against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the Trump-Russia collusion narrative: built on an anonymously sourced “dossier,” secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy with links to the FBI and the Obama Justice Department. Though acknowledged to be “salacious and unverified” at the FBI’s highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump’s campaign. Desperate to derail Trump’s candidacy, political and intelligence operatives leaked the probe to the media.

Miraculously, Trump won anyway. His rabid political opponents refused to accept the voters’ decision. Though the collusion narrative had barely registered with the electorate, it was now peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents, Justice Department officials, and media ideologues – the vanguard of the “Trump Resistance.” Through secret surveillance, a sophisticated scheme to enable intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was led to believe the Trump campaign had conspired with Russia to steal the election.

Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head when he fired the FBI director, who had given explosive Senate testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite privately assuring Trump that he was not. The resulting firestorm of partisan protest cowed the Justice to appoint a special counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation has bedeviled the administration ever since.

Yet as months passed, concrete evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom? Against Democrat-media caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and accusers. It has exposed the thoroughgoing politicization of American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. The institutions on which our nation depends for objective policing and clear-eyed analysis had injected themselves into the divisive politics of the 2016 election.

They failed to forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing down President Trump?

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Praise for Ball of Collusion

This is exactly what the Mueller investigation should have been.  Rush Limbaugh





A critically important read for thoughtful people.  The Chicago Tribune





The best book of its kind since Woodward and Bernsteins All the Presidents Men. Powerline







Previous Praise for Andrew C. McCarthy





His contentions deserve debate.  The Wall Street Journal





His background distinguishes him from pundits on the left and the right.  The New York Times





Everything Andy writes is must-reading, and must-heeding.  William J. Bennett





A fearless fighter for freedom.  Mark R. Levin

Introduction vii
Chapter One The Collusion Fable
1(20)
Chapter Two What Investigation ... and What Started It?
21(14)
Chapter Three An Old Story: Beltway Consultants as Agents of the Kremlin
35(19)
Chapter Four Intel ... the Obama Way
54(25)
Chapter Five `An Institutional Lack of Candor'
79(20)
Chapter Six Collusion: Foreign Governments, the Obama Administration, and the Clinton Campaign
99(26)
Chapter Seven A Maltese Professor, an Australian Diplomat, and a Sap ... in London
125(16)
Chapter Eight The Brennan Clearinghouse
141(12)
Chapter Nine Narrative as `Intelligence' as Disinformation: The Steele Dossier
153(22)
Chapter Ten There's No Collusion Case ... Just Ask Julian Assange
175(16)
Chapter Eleven Crossfire Hurricane
191(20)
Chapter Twelve I Spy
211(20)
Chapter Thirteen Amateur Hour
231(12)
Chapter Fourteen Insurance Policy
243(16)
Chapter Fifteen FISA Warrants: Targeting Trump, Not Page
259(28)
Chapter Sixteen `Flood Is Coming'
287(22)
Chapter Seventeen Not a Suspect?
309(14)
Chapter Eighteen Nine Days in May
323(28)
Notes 351(74)
Index 425
Andrew C. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor who received the Justice Departments highest honors. He is a contributing editor to National Review, a Fox News contributor, and nationally renowned commentator on legal and national security issues. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Willful Blindness and The Grand Jihad.