Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump

by Dan Bongino, D.C. McAllister, Matt Palumbo (Editor)

Overview

As seen on The Ben Shapiro Show!

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

"'Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump,' is terrific. He's tough, he's smart, and he really gets it. His book is on sale now. I highly recommend!" —President of the United States, Donald J. Trump

“An explosive account of the biggest scandal in American history, and the political players that tried to pull it off.”—Sean Hannity

The comprehensive story of how the Obama administration, Hillary Clinton campaign, and foreign entities tried to sabotage the Trump campaign in the 2016 presidential election.

Everyone has an opinion about whether or not Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016. The number of actors involved is staggering, the events are complicated, and it’s hard to know who or what to believe. Spygate bypasses opinion and brings facts together to expose the greatest political scandal in American history.

Former Secret Service agent and NYPD police officer Dan Bongino joins forces with journalist D.C. McAllister to clear away fake news and show you how Trump’s political opponents, both foreign and domestic, tried to sabotage his campaign and delegitimize his presidency. By following the names and connections of significant actors, the authors reveal:

• Why the Obama administration sent a spy connected to the Deep State into the Trump campaign
• How Russians were connected to the opposition research firm hired by the Clinton campaign to find dirt on Trump
• How the FBI failed to examine DNC computers after they were hacked, relying instead on the findings of a private company connected to the DNC and the Obama administraton
• Why British intelligence played a role in building the collusion narrative
• What role Ukrainians played in legitimizing the perception that Trump was conspiring with the Russians
• How foreign players in the two events that kickstarted the Trump-Russia collusion investigation were connected to the Clinton Foundation, and
• What motivated the major actors who sought to frame the Trump campaign and secure a win for Hillary Clinton

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642935370
Publisher:	Post Hill Press
Publication date:	01/21/2020
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	268,715
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Dan Bongino’s public service career began with the NYPD in 1995. Dan subsequently joined the US Secret Service in 1999. In 2006, Dan joined the Presidential Protective Division during the administration of President Bush, and he remained on protective duty with President Obama.

Dan is a multiple-time bestselling author, and he is the host of The Dan Bongino Show podcast and radio show. Dan earned his MBA from Penn State University, and both his MA and BA from the City University of New York.

Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros (2022), Dumb and Dumber: How Cuomo and de Blasio Ruined New York (2021), Debunk This!: Shattering Liberal Lies (2019), and Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump (2018).

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part 1 Making of the Trump-Russia Collusion Narrative 1

Paul Manafort 3

Alexandra Chalupa 10

Serhiy Leshchenko 17

Victor Pinchuk 19

George Papadopoulos 31

Joseph Mifsud 31

Alexander Downer 46

Trump Tower Meeting 54

The Backstory 55

Natalia Veselnitskaya 58

Glenn Simpson 63

Rinat Akhmetshin 69

The Steele Dossier 73

DNC Servers and CrowdStrike 80

Perkins Coie 88

Christopher Steele 91

The "Dossier" 98

First Contact 102

State Department and the FBI 102

John Brennan and GCHQ 106

Robby Mook and the Media 113

Part 2 The Investigations 117

Counterintelligence 119

Stages of the Investigation 124

No Warnings, No Prevention 127

No Facts on "Collusion" 132

CIA Contributions 134

Stefan Harper 138

Carter Page 143

"Least Intrusive Methods" 145

Halper's History 153

Crossfire Hurricane 158

Michael Flynn 162

NSA Surveillance Expands 167

Special Counsel Probe 174

Where's the Crime? 177

A Flood of Leaks 186

What Hath the Investigation Wrought? 196

Part 3 The Real Story 203

Russian Interference 207

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama 210

Clinton's Private Server 211

Russia and Iran 217

British Intelligence 220

Ukraine and Manafort 229

A Failed Scheme Keeps Going 232

Appendix I Timeline 235

Appendix II Media Leaks 257

Appendix III Charts of Connections 273

Endnotes 279

About the Authors 308