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Proof of Corruption: Bribery, Impeachment, and Pandemic in the Age of Trump Hardcover – September 8, 2020
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While the facts of each Trump bribery scandal are complex, the pattern of corruption remains the same, whether it involves Trump seeking to appease Vladimir Putin by returning Ukraine's energy industry to Kremlin control; Trump freezing aid to Ukraine to extort bogus "intelligence" on Joe Biden from corrupt Ukrainian prosecutors; Trump escalating a trade war with China while privately cutting election-dirt deals with Xi Jinping; Trump ignoring November 2019 intelligence warning of a dangerous virus outbreak in China due to his business interests in Beijing; or Trump promoting a dangerous and ineffective treatment for COVID-19 at the behest of his richest campaign donors.
With Donald Trump, all roads lead (by design) to personal enrichment. Sometimes he's seeking to fill his 2020 reelection coffers, and sometimes his illicit self-dealing and epic corruption center on his personal business relationships; sometimes the crimes and their subsequent cover-ups are domestic, and sometimes they're international. But the audacity of Trump's offenses and the need for byzantine schemes to hide them remains the same.
With thousands of citations from the world's most respected media outlets, Proof of Corruption tells the story of a bribery and election-tampering scheme that crosses years and stretches from China to Ukraine, Turkey to Venezuela, Hungary to Israel, Russia to Saudi Arabia. It is a plot that empowers America's adversaries to author U.S. foreign policy and tamper with our elections even as it frees Donald Trump to replace America's national interest with his own.
Proof of Corruption reveals a harrowing pattern of international and domestic bribery that is shocking, criminal, and a clear and present danger to America.
- Print length576 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSt. Martin's Press
- Publication dateSeptember 8, 2020
- Dimensions6.42 x 1.72 x 9.55 inches
- ISBN-101250272998
- ISBN-13978-1250272997
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"Careful and exhaustive ... Abramson’s catalog makes a strong case for Trump’s outsized, boundless corruption." ―Kirkus Reviews on Proof of Corruption
“Detailed . . . there’s much to ponder here, and many will want to do just that.” ―Booklist on Proof of Conspiracy
“A richly documented indictment of power and corruption that bears urgent discussion in the coming electoral cycle.” ―Kirkus Reviews on Proof of Conspiracy
“Chilling . . . a useful guidebook to the still-unfolding crisis. Abramson . . . methodically assembles the most important pieces of the puzzle to present a comprehensive picture of what [he] calls the most significant criminal investigation of our lives.” ―Gothamist on Proof of Collusion
“A detailed, labyrinthine chronicle of contacts between Trump and his associates on the one hand and Russian officials, oligarchs, and fixers on the other. . . . Abramson's exhaustive amassing of published evidence is useful.” ―Publishers Weekly on Proof of Collusion
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- Publisher : St. Martin's Press (September 8, 2020)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250272998
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250272997
- Item Weight : 1.8 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.42 x 1.72 x 9.55 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #169,113 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #202 in Elections
- #267 in Political Intelligence
- #340 in United States Executive Government
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Seth Abramson is a former criminal defense attorney and criminal investigator who teaches digital journalism, legal advocacy, and cultural theory at the University of New Hampshire. A regular political and legal analyst on CNN and the BBC during the Trump presidency, he is the author of eight books and editor of five anthologies. Abramson is a graduate of Dartmouth College, Harvard Law School, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the Ph.D. program in English at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two one-year-old rescue hounds, Quinn and Scout.
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Customers find the book informative and well-researched. They appreciate the detailed footnotes and investigative work. The book is described as a unique work in any news or political context, providing a documented history of the current administration.
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"Seth Abramson's Proof trilogy is a collection of MUST READ books. So much info all packed into 3 books. I'm Honoured to have these in my collection." Read more
"A must read, and hopefully not an autopsy on the final days of American democracy. Seth Abramson's best book yet." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2020The proof trilogy is so exhaustively sourced that it is embarrassing, embarrassing that there is so much public information and yet somehow Trump got elected, is still in office and may still be re-elected. This is the most thorough fact checked book out there on the Tump presidency. Seth Abramson has right wing critics I dare anyone to find a single inaccurate or false statement in this book. Everyone should read what will inevitably be the text book series of the last four years
- Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2020Proof of Corruption is the final book in the Proof trilogy, 2400 pages that together provide a thoroughly footnoted condemnation of the criminal in the White House. Although this book reprises a few of the themes introduced in the first two books, millennia have passed since Proof of Conspiracy was published almost exactly a year ago. Right after that, the United States withdrew troops from Syria, leaving our Kurd allies to be slaughtered. Everyone was outraged; now it's a distant memory for most. The Ukraine machinations that led to the president's impeachment last year, also dimming. The book reconstructs the behind-the-scenes negotiations and manipulations for each notable episode and incident, relying on published sources. (The author, who describes himself as a curatorial journalist, does not conduct interviews himself. Thanks to the volume of tweets this president posts and his constant boasting, no need for a one-on-one conversation.)
Anyone who's encountered Seth Abramson on Twitter has noted his distinctive style. He doesn't just make one statement and then sit back. He's the master of marathon threads, concatenated tweets that provide logical stepping stones to connect the dots. There are lots of names, places, dates, facts. In a book as long as this one, the amount of information can feel overwhelming, but this is our shared history. We all lived through it, day after relentless day, and seeing it cataloged in one place is both darkly satisfying and terrifying. The author describes it as a "dystopian script of this period."
Before ordering this book, you may want to check out the author's website where he's linked eleven excerpts from this book, covering topics ranging from Covid to Black Lives Matter to Rudy Giuliani. And that's without the 3,000+ endnotes that are posted on the publisher's website for those of us who bought the book in electronic form. (I haven't gotten to those yet. Maybe tomorrow.) It's also worth noting that the book is written mostly in present tense, with some occasional dips into future tense. "Such and such meeting occurs. The media will describe it as..." Using present tense gives the material an immediacy it would not otherwise have.
The book concludes with an epilogue that takes us up to early summer 2020, about three months ago. Protests were just beginning; Covid cases rising. It hasn't gotten a lot better. We can only hope that those of us who care about our democracy are able to make our voices heard, lest the destruction of American laws and values be complete.
Michael Cohen's book was also released today, and I'll get to that one soon. It should be a good complement to this book: a close-up, boots on the ground perspective on the president. For the bigger picture of the nefarious presidency, I doubt anyone will surpass the Proof trilogy.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020I follow the author on Twitter which is both a plus and a minus - PLUS: you know what has been going on before most general public MINUS: your ability to be shocked and outraged by Trump and his cohort gets dissipated. However, reading (and listening) to it all packed into book form brings it all back. You find yourself saying "Oh ... I forgot about that!" but most of the time it is putting meat on the bones of what Seth has already surfaced via his Twitter account.
The thing I most appreciate, intellectually, about Seth's books, is the metajournalism approach of gathering together the articles and journalistic endeavours from around the world to tell the story - items that on their own are often remarkable but get drowned out or forgotten, but when put together support and expand their importance as a historical record, and a warning for a future where Trump has a 2nd term and doesn't have to be constrained by standing for re-election.
The thing I most appreciate, emotionally, about THIS book, is, strangely, the Epilogue. I know from his Twitter feed that Seth is a passionate human being when it comes to human rights and equity - legal, racial, financial, womens, animal etc. etc., but generally with the journalistic side he tries to present "just the facts ma'am" and the supporting information. But the Epilogue - WOW! I admit I cried in the audio book when the Narrator (who is excellent) read the #SayTheirNames section of a selection of the names of "seemingly numberless men, women, and children of color who have been unjustly killed by police...". This segment is an author untethered to using just cold hard facts, but who is unleashing his depth of understanding of the dangers of another 4 years of Trumpism, which he has gained via the years of plunging into the bottomless greed and lack of empathy that characterises Trump and his enablers, both in the USA and internationally. Most of us have a surface or single focus understanding of the harms already done, but the author has put all of the "known" horrors together, and US voters who ignore what that could mean with another term, and therefore the immiment peril to their democracy and freedom, will imperil all of us.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2020This is a third book in the series. This is well written & documented history of our current President’s policies & nonsense.
The writer is a lawyer & law professor, I have read his articles for the past 4 years, he has pointed out the problems legally with this administration’s policies. Good read!
- Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2020This is a massively detailed book with pages upon pages of foot notes.
It is definitely not light reading but an absolutely necessary reading to understand the breath and impact of the trump administration's crimes
I would not be at all surprised if this is required reading in the future at the college level
- Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2020This book provides the information that we all need to understand where we are and how we got here. This is a must read for everyone as we attempt to understand how Trump has affected world politics.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2020I read this as a stand alone without reading the first 2 in the series. This may have made it more difficult to keep all of the names straight i my head. I can't imagine the amount of research required to put this all together and make the information digestible for the average person. It is a complete snapshot of the last 4 years, and should be taught as a history lesson.
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- Amazon CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 21, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars The Teflon Don.
If this were fiction it would be a frightening premise of what might happen when a President had been given unbridled power.
But this not fiction and it is thoroughly frightening that someone so venal should become a President, and that the the party that he heads actually support him and ignore his venality.
Far from electing someone who would set about actually solving the problems facing the United States, they have given Him what he sees as the business opportunity of a lifetime!
And far from lets make America Great Again, his credo has been lets make me richer! and to hell with Democracy!