Proof of corruption : bribery, impeachment, and pandemic in the age of Trump
In the third volume of his Proof series, author Seth Abramson takes listeners on a deep dive into the Ukraine scandal, revealing it to be more sinister, complex, and transnational than previously thought. Abramson's research on Trump administration corruption positions the Ukraine scandal as the foreseeable culmination of years of clandestine machinations involving scores of players, from Beijing to Budapest, Ankara to Caracas, Warsaw to Jerusalem, Kyiv to Riyadh, and Moscow to DC. While many know about the July 2019 telephone call that ignited the Ukraine scandal, most don't know about the concurrent attempts by members of Trump's inner circle to take over Ukraine's national gas company and bolster dangerous pro-Kremlin Ukrainian oligarchs - moves that would have benefited Putin and destabilized Ukraine's government and economy. In Beijing, Trump's dealings with the Chinese government not only enriched him and his family, but also culminated in him successfully seeking 2020 election interference from Xi Jinping in the form of closely held information about Joe Biden. In Venezuela, many of the actors involved in the Ukraine scandal engaged in similarly secretive, Kremlin-friendly negotiations that undermined US policy. In Syria and Iraq, Trump's personal indebtedness to autocrats in Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE cost untold lives. And Abramson brings the story back to an increasingly fractured and depleted United States, where the COVID-19 pandemic exposes the staggering domestic consequences of the Trump administration's foreign machinations.
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- ISBN: 9781250272997
- Physical Description viii, 561 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2020.
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General Note: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents
Proof of Corruption : Bribery, Impeachment, and Pandemic in the Age of Trump
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Author's Note | p. ix | |
Introduction: The Rule of Law | p. 1 | |
Chapter 1 | Manafort | p. 5 |
Chapter 2 | Euromaidan and Crimea | p. 19 |
Chapter 3 | Parnas and Fruman | p. 28 |
Chapter 4 | Shokin | p. 48 |
Chapter 5 | Kilimnik | p. 57 |
Chapter 6 | The Black Ledger and the Javelins | p. 67 |
Chapter 7 | DiGenova and Toensing | p. 80 |
Chapter 8 | Stone | p. 87 |
Chapter 9 | Giuliani | p. 99 |
Chapter 10 | Naftogaz | p. 115 |
Chapter 11 | Firtash | p. 129 |
Chapter 12 | Trump-Venezuela | p. 135 |
Chapter 13 | Vogel and Stern | p. 143 |
Chapter 14 | Orban and Soros | p. 154 |
Chapter 15 | Leshchenko | p. 162 |
Chapter 16 | CrowdStrike, Onyshchenko, and Kolomoisky | p. 172 |
Chapter 17 | Nunes and the BLT Prime Team | p. 178 |
Chapter 18 | Solomon | p. 186 |
Chapter 19 | Poroshenko and Artemenko | p. 197 |
Chapter 20 | Yovanovitch | p. 203 |
Chapter 21 | Parnas | p. 216 |
Chapter 22 | Hyde | p. 225 |
Chapter 23 | The First Trump-Zelensky Call | p. 229 |
Chapter 24 | Zelensky and Lutsenko | p. 234 |
Chapter 25 | Taylor | p. 241 |
Chapter 26 | ABC News and the Hold | p. 254 |
Chapter 27 | Sondland and Pompeo | p. 266 |
Chapter 28 | The Second Trump-Zelensky Call | p. 272 |
Chapter 29 | Sondland and Giuliani | p. 286 |
Chapter 30 | Trump-China | p. 295 |
Chapter 31 | Vindman | p. 311 |
Chapter 32 | The Whistleblower | p. 318 |
Chapter 33 | Pence | p. 328 |
Chapter 34 | September | p. 339 |
Chapter 35 | Barr, Durham, and Horowitz | p. 346 |
Chapter 36 | Trump-Turkey | p. 353 |
Chapter 37 | Trump and Zelensky | p. 385 |
Chapter 38 | Trump-Iran | p. 389 |
Chapter 39 | The Impeachment | p. 406 |
Chapter 40 | The Trial | p. 428 |
Chapter 41 | The Aftermath | p. 447 |
Chapter 42 | COVID-19 | p. 456 |
Epilogue: The Unrest and the Election | p. 507 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 540 | |
Index | p. 543 |