num_pages: 384
description: Instant New York Times BestsellerImportant and stunning. This is must-read material if you want to understand what the Trump administration is still up to right now. --Lawrence O'DonnellThere are questions that the Mueller report couldn'tor wouldn'tanswer. What actually happened to instigate the Russia investigation? Did President Trumps meddling incriminate him? Theres no mystery to what Trump thinks. He claims that the Deep State a cabal of career bureaucratsamong them Andrew McCabe Lisa Page and Peter Strzok previously little known figures within the FBI whom he has obsessively and publically reviledis 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 FBIs simultaneous investigations of both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trumpthe 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 presidents 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 struggleTrump versus intelligence agenciesStewart shows us in rare style whats real and what matters now. And for the looming 2020 election.
language: English
title: Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law
publisher: Penguin Press