Proof of Corruption

Proof of Corruption
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Bribery, Impeachment, and Pandemic in the Age of Trump

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ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2020

نویسنده

Seth Abramson

شابک

9781250273000
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Kirkus

August 15, 2020
The third volume in a trilogy devoted to recording Donald Trump's countless misdeeds, civil and criminal. As an exercise in what Abramson calls "curatorial journalism," the narrative is often difficult to stomach due to the author's careful and exhaustive evidence for his contention that the Trump administration exhibits a "perniciously systemic penchant for four types of activity" that are key to the definition of corruption. Three of these are impeachable, and the fourth comprises "nonimpeachable conduct that indicates a president is unfit to serve as a matter of ethics, conformity to democratic norms, and commitment to the rule of law." A critical question is whether Trump has been so thoroughly compromised as a result of foreign entanglements that he constitutes a security risk--that is, he "cannot be trusted to...put the safety and security of the United States ahead of personal avarice or ambition." Abramson, of course, answers that question in the affirmative. At the center of his investigation is the multifaceted matter of Trump's seeking the assistance of foreign governments in order to provide negative material about his political opponents: Russia, Ukraine, even China. Trump's machinations, carried out by means of various lieutenants such as Paul Manafort and supported by legal enablers such as William Barr, make for maddening reading. So do his many missteps, including the curious choice to open negotiations with Taiwan in December 2016 for a Trump-branded airport project, the first direct negotiation with the nation on the part of an American president since 1979. Even so, Trump pressed the government of mainland China for information on Joe Biden and his son, which, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blithely explained, "is what we do." That China did not jump to oblige Trump helps explain his labeling of Covid-19--his handling of which, by Abramson's account, has been both corrupt and inept--the "China plague." Treasonous? Perhaps not--but Abramson's catalog makes a strong case for Trump's outsized, boundless corruption.

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