The New York Times bestseller from the award-winning author of Den
of Thieves and Unscripted.
Important and stunning. This is must-read material if you want to
understand what the Trump administration is still up to right now.
--Lawrence O'Donnell
There are questions that the Mueller report couldn't--or
wouldn't--answer. What actually happened to instigate the Russia
investigation? Did President Trump's meddling incriminate him? There's
no mystery to what Trump thinks. He claims that the Deep State, a cabal
of career bureaucrats--among them, Andrew McCabe, Lisa Page, and Peter
Strzok, previously little known figures within the FBI whom he has
obsessively and publically reviled--is concerned only with protecting
its own power and undermining the democratic process. Conversely, James
Comey has defended the FBI as incorruptible apolitical public servants
who work tirelessly to uphold the rule of law.
For the first time, bestselling author James B. Stewart sifts these
conflicting accounts to present a clear-eyed view of what exactly
happened inside the FBI in the lead-up to the 2016 election, drawing on
scores of interviews with key FBI, Department of Justice, and White
House officialsand voluminous transcripts, notes, and internal reports.
In full detail, this is the dramatic saga of the FBI's simultaneous
investigations of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump--the first time
in American history the FBI has been thrust into the middle of both
parties' campaigns for the presidency. Stewart shows what exactly was
set in motion when Trump fired Comey, triggering the appointment of
Robert Mueller as an independent special counsel and causing the FBI to
open a formal investigation into the president himself. And how this
unprecedented event joined in ongoing combat two vital institutions of
American democracy: the presidency and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
At stake in this epic battle is the rule of law itself, the foundation
of the U.S. Constitution. There is no room for compromise, but plenty
for collateral damage. The reputations of both sides have already been
harmed, perhaps irrevocably, and at great cost to American democracy.
Deep State goes beyond the limits of the legally constrained Mueller
report, showing how the president's obsession with the idea of a
conspiracy against him is still upending lives and sending shockwaves
through both the FBI and the Department of Justice. In this
world-historical struggle--Trump versus intelligence agencies--Stewart
shows us in rare style what's real and what matters now. And for the
looming 2020 election.
