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The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History Hardcover – 28 Nov. 2019

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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 not only the president, but also the rest of the country.

The plot officially began July 31, 2016 with the counterintelligence investigation that the FBI opened to probe Russian infiltration of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. But the bureau never followed any Russians. In fact, it was an operation to sabotage Trump, the candidate, then president-elect, and finally the presidency. The conspirators included political operatives, law enforcement and intelligence officials, and the press.

The plot was uncovered by Nunes, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and his investigative team. They understood that the target of the operation wasn't just Trump, but rather the institutions that sustain our republic. A country where operatives use the intelligence and security services to protect their privileges by spying on Americans, coordinating with the press, and using extra-constitutional means to undermine an election then undo a presidency is more like the third world than the republic envisioned by the founding fathers.

Without Nunes and his team, the plot against the president -- and against the country -- never would have been revealed. Told from the perspective of Nunes and his crack investigators -- men and women who banded together to do the right thing at a crucial moment for our democracy -- the story of the biggest political scandal in a generation reads like a great detective novel, feels like a classic cowboy movie. The congressman from the cattle capital of California really did fight corruption in Washington. Devin Nunes took on the "deep state."

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28 Nov. 2019
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1546085025
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Investigative journalist Lee Smith uses his unprecedented access to Congressman Devin Nunes, former head of the House Intelligence Committee, to expose the deep state operation against the president--and the American people.

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Lee Smith is a veteran journalist whose work appears in Real Clear Investigations, the Federalist, and Tablet. He's worked in media for thirty years, writing about national politics, foreign policy, and the press. Smith reported from the Middle East for a decade after the 9/11 attacks and wrote the critically acclaimed The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations. A Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Smith is a frequent guest on television and radio, national and international, including Fox News, CNN, and France 24. Smith was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was raised in New York City. He now lives in Washington, DC.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Center Street (28 Nov. 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1546085025
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1546085027
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.3 x 3 x 23 cm

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LEE SMITH is a Middle East correspondent for The Weekly Standard. He has written for Slate, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and a variety of Arab media outlets. He is also a visiting fellow of the Hudson Institute. A native of New York, he lives in Beirut.

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Mad3ab

Riveting, revealing i

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2020

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How Obama and Clinton orchestrated corruption to deliver a coup d’tate. How mainstream media can no longer be trusted and how Fake News is used to frame innocent people fuelled from leaks the DOJ, FBI, CIA and Special Counsels. The despicable self-serving role of the Democratic Party in all of this is damning.

Trump is spot on calling out Fake News and their operatives.

It’s amazing that so many Americans have fallen in love with the narrative.

When Trump got elected by millions of ordinary Joe Americans it is clear that the criminals orchestrating these demeanours are no longer in the majority. It also explains why Trump never stops campaigning and users Twitter to by-pass the Fake News MSM.

Brilliant piece of legal investigation uncovering the truth.

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Practical exposition.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 August 2022

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Wonderful. Each page a golden nuget.

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Mary Chid

Truthful and accurate account of recent American history.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2021

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Outstanding work by Devin Nunes has led to this fantastic book by Lee Smith. Frightening to see how a great democratic nation like the United States can be so hoodwinked by a few crooked people at the top in government.

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A well written book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 May 2021

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This book open my eyes to many truths and facts, a good read.

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K J Jones

Really good book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 April 2021

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My husband really enjoyed this book.Informative and interesting.Nice hardback.

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Hammerdel1

A must read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 June 2020

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Great read and Devin Nunis is a brilliant republican senator and lays out America's biggest coup de etate since Lincoln

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aileen p smith

Truth

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2020

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Brilliant book. A must read for any political student

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Flat earth Christian

Probably all true

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 December 2020

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This book is probably all true but I found it unreadable. Too erratic, detailed and unnecessarily menacing for me.

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Shanika 32

Factual and Well Documented Account

Reviewed in the United States on 22 July 2021

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I rarely read political books, but this one I took a chance on. The book is well written, thoroughly documented, and not difficult to read. It does the job journalists once did. It does not get deep into opinion, as some authors whom I like but cannot read. I do not want opinion, just the facts. This book succeeds well, although there are some irrefutable facts, such as there was a plot by a Democratic administration using a Democrat--funded dossier to spy on a Republican presidential candidate--Trump.
Lee takes the reader through the plot in chronological order. He uses actual investigators like Kash Patel and Rep Nunes to expose the plot. 17 federal--top level officials--such as Comey, Ohr, Strzok, and McCabe, etc.-- were fired, yet only one was prosecuted, and he got probation. Had Hillary won, as she had been predicted to, we would not know anything of this plot even today.
The Steele Dossier was paid for by the Democrats and Clinton. It is the reason for the FISA warrants, yet not one witness before congress testified that they knew of any collusion. It "is not an intelligence
product. it is a fiction," (Smith). Moreover, the Mueller prosecution after two years found no collusion between Russian and the Trump campaign. The FBI committed 17 grievous errors in the FISA warrants. Exculpatory evidence was also withheld from FISA court. Steele lied to the FBI in his dossier and could provide no proof of his allegations, but he told them what they wanted to hear--"allegations from a dark dream world." Justice #2 Ohr's wife worked for the Fusion GPS team building the political opposition research, gave this to her husband, and he fed it to the FBI. It is like the FBI was part of the Democrat Party. They certainly did their work for the them.
Smith does an excellent job showing the real "collusion" of many leaks of classified intelligence to the mainstream media. They printed Steele's unsubstantiated allegations, the Dept of Justice used this as an excuse to prosecute, and media printed this, in a circular win/win. More than two years of Trump/Russian collusion turned out to be a hoax. Crimes were committed such as lying to the FBI and Congress by Steele, Comey, both Ohrs, and others, according to the HPSCI investigation.
In the end credibility of the FBI and Justice Departments and the mainstream media have been wrecked. Trust in media is at the lowest point ever. This book explains just one reason: two years of Trump/Russian touted as legitimate without any evidence. The "rot" at the top of the FBI and Justice Depts put trust in them at the lowest level since Waco. Neither has apologized to America for the 2 1/2 years of false information slandering the elected President Trump, Carter Page, and others.

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Brian

Breathtaking corruption!

Reviewed in Canada on 26 December 2019

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The more I read, the more horrified I became about the coordination amongst heads of the CIA, FBI and Intelligence agencies with several noted media entities like CNN, the Washington Post and The New York Times to spread falsehoods about Trump and his campaign team to try to make him unelectable and, when that failed, to remove him from office.
I now understand why the Durham undertaking has gone from an inquiry to a criminal investigation.

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G.C.Zilverschoon

Een ander geluid

Reviewed in Germany on 18 February 2020

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Dit boek is verplichte kost voor iedereen die in nep-nieuws betreffende de democratisch gekozen president van Amerika is geïnteresseerd. De auteur toont aan dat de verliezende Democraten alles in het werk gesteld hebben om de democratisch gekozen president van Amerika pootje te lichten.
De geschetste activiteiten van ambtenaren van de CIA, van functionarissen van de FBI en van met de Clinton-kliek verbonden personages worden nauwkeurig van openbare bronnen voorzien. De bedenkelijke rol van zowel The New-York Times als The Washington Post komt goed uit de verf. Zelfs een honorable man als Obama komt er niet zonder kleerscheuren van af.
Kortom: Lee Smith produceert een ander geluid dan het in Nederland zo favoriete "Trump-bashen".

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Carol Taylor

President Trump

Reviewed in Canada on 22 October 2020

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How he does it I don't know But The Love of his Country is the answer
Trump 2020 I'm now a Believer in him and what he has done trying to DRAIN THE SWAMP!

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joel e pessa

Fascinating look at behind-the-scenes of how the Russian-collusion narrative was derailed.

Reviewed in the United States on 31 October 2019

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As someone who is fairly apolitical, I found this book absolutely fascinating. Lee Smith’s book is well-written, easy to read, and flows nicely. Although I read it slowly over a few days to absorb his thoughts and research, the book held my attention and was an “enjoyable read”.

A few comments for other readers and/or Lee Smith.

1. Superb summary statement: “For the US media, the collusion narrative is an extinction-level event.” Kudos to Lee Smith!
Having listened to countless bombshells, turning points, and beginnings of the ends, there is no conclusive evidence of collusion by the Trump campaign. My generation was brought up in the days of Cronkite to trust the media. It will be interesting to see how (if?) the media will recover. Russiagate changes one’s basic trust and interpretation of the news. Perhaps that’s a good thing.

2. Very nice of Lee Smith to give such well-deserved credit to Devin Nunes. I remember when Mr Nunes was referred for ethics violation; I thought at the time it might stop him. Kudos to one man who kept going and made a difference. By praising Nunes, Smith shows he has integrity and depth of character.

3. 1st question for Mr. Smith: if after 3 years and 30 million dollars there is no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, conspired, or coordinated with Russia, why was Trump charged (investigated) in the first place? What was the predicate, and who is Joseph Mifsud?

4. 2nd question. Is this really the 1st time this has happened? Lee Smith purposefully steered clear of making any comparisons where he could be accused of “conspiracy theories”. But is this really the first time the intel and media ran an op against a politician?

5. 3rd question. Why now?
Was this a perfect storm one off? Was this a true historical juncture where opposing economic philosophies (eg globalism vs national productivity) raised the stakes such that all these risks were worth taking? The actors knew the stakes...Lisa Page’s text that she was afraid (it) could ‘go off the rails’ (paraphrase). Peoples’ lives have been destroyed. Why take such risks?

6. Last question. Can this happen again?

Good book, enjoyable read. Will await more research with an open mind: the truth always lies somewhere in between.

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