The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It

by Malcolm Nance

Overview

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***


An Explosive, Revelatory Assessment of the Greatest Betrayal in American History, Newly Revised and Updated


William Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions · And More!




"Impressive... a persuasive whodunit narrative." -Washington Post




In The Plot to Betray America, New York Times bestselling author and renowned intelligence expert Malcolm Nance reveals exactly how President Trump and his inner circle conspired, coordinated, communicated, and eventually strategized to commit the greatest acts of treachery in the history of the United States: compromising the presidential oath of office in exchange for power and personal enrichment. Seduced by the promises of riches dangled in front of them by Vladimir Putin, the Trump administration eagerly decided to reap the rewards of the plan to put a Kremlin-friendly crony in the Oval Office. Even after his impeachment, Trump continues to defend Putin and jeopardize American intelligence. And instead of interfering, Trump's powerful Republican allies have done everything they can to facilitate Trump's irreparable damage to national security.

Through in-depth research and interviews with intelligence experts and insiders, Nance charts Trump's deep financial ties to Russia through his family's investments-including those of Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Jared Kushner-and exposes the corrupt behavior of Trump's other double-crossing pro-Moscow associates. In doing so, Nance also draws a portrait of a venal and selfish president, one who willingly sells American national security to dictators, strongmen, and the ultra-rich at the expense, and sometimes the lives, of American citizens.

In this newly revised and updated edition, The Plot to Betray America ultimately sketches the blueprint of the Trump administration's conspiracy against our country-and shows us how we can still fight to defend democracy, protect our national security, and save the Constitution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316535786
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	11/10/2020
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	267,595
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

MALCOLM NANCE is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Plot to Hack America and The Plot to Destroy Democracy. He is a globally recognized intelligence communitymember and a counterterrorism analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.

Table of Contents

Foreword Martin Sheen vii

Introduction 1

Section I Organizing to Steal an Election

1 Betraying the Oath…in Plain Sight 7

2 The Super Villain with a Leash 22

3 Trump: The Dog to Be Walked 44

4 Swimming in Rubles 59

5 Team Trump 70

6 The Dynastic Crime Family 83

7 The Five Dangles 102

8 Team Dirty Tricks 120

Section II The Mischief Begins

9 The Worst Presidency in History 141

10 Masters of Fake News 151

11 The Good Guys 165

12 All the (Russian) President's Men 182

13 The Trump Doctrine: Buying This American, Buys America 195

14 Hydra 2.0-Destroying America's Security from Within 209

Section III Obstruction of Justice

15 The Asteroid of Awfulness 229

16 "The End of My Presidency…" 238

17 Fixing a Fractured Democracy 273

Epilogue: Benedict Arnold Vindicated 289

The Players Glossary 295

Notes 307

Index 353

Editorial Reviews

***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***


AN EXPLOSIVE , REVELATORY ASSESSMENT OF THE GREATEST BETRAYAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY


William Barr · Paul Manafort · Michael Cohen · Steve Bannon · Rudy Giuliani · Mitch McConnell · Roger Stone · George Papadopoulos · Jeff Sessions · And More!




"[Nance] does a good job of showing how the Russian campaign to infiltrate the Trump campaign was staged and was so willingly accepted, with key agents taking roles in the Miss Universe contest, swaying the National Rifle Association, and conning Donald Trump Jr... and the book is timely."—Kirkus Reviews

"Succinctly recapping the many interconnected Trump scandals and instances of irresponsible and dangerous behavior, Nance methodically illuminates established facts and their consequences and offers new revelations and insights in an evidential fashion. The result is sobering, consequential, and urgent."—Booklist

"All in all, Nance has produced an impressive clip job, assembling scores of reliable media reports, congressional hearings and the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into a persuasive whodunit narrative."—The Washington Post

From the Publisher

2019-10-07
Thirty pieces of silver or a few billion rubles: By counterterrorism expert Nance's account, either adds up to treason.

In his predecessor volume The Plot To Destroy Democracy: How Putin's Spies Are Winning Control of America and Dismantling the West (2018), the author gave Donald Trump some benefit of the doubt with the thought that perhaps he'd unwittingly fallen into schemes on the part of Russian intelligence, being "too stupid to suss it out." Here, in an account that begins with Trump's plea during the 2016 campaign for Russia, "if you're listening…to find the 30,000 emails that are missing," Nance holds that Trump's open act of soliciting the aid of a foreign and rival government was an act of treason—and a knowing one as well. The pairing was natural, by the author's account, since Russia harbored the same hatred for nonheterosexuals and nonwhites that the Republican Party so openly manifests. Nance's argument is scattershot and heated, but he does a good job of showing how the Russian campaign to infiltrate the Trump campaign was staged and was so willingly accepted, with key agents taking roles in the Miss Universe contest, swaying the National Rifle Association, and conning Donald Trump Jr., "an avid shooter of defenseless animals." Moreover, he shows that Trump had opened the door for all of this collusion decades earlier, when he signaled that only he could make the decisions necessary to fix the world's problems, taking out a full-page New York Times ad in 1987 to condemn NATO and demand that the U.S. "stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves," exactly in keeping with the Russian line. Trump emerges as treasonous, to be sure, as do others in his administration, notably Attorney General William Barr—and the book is timely, inasmuch as they're now busily explaining new charges of collusion with Ukraine and other nations in the 2020 campaign.

Occasionally overwrought but right on the money in enumerating Trump's high crimes and misdemeanors.

Kirkus Reviews