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Proof of Collusion

How Trump Betrayed America

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Proof of Collusion

By: Seth Abramson
Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
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 For the first time, the full, explosive record of the unthinkable: how a US president compromised American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance.

Looking back at this moment in history, historians will ask if Americans knew they were living through the first case of criminal conspiracy between an American presidential candidate turned commander in chief and a geopolitical enemy. The answer might be: it was hard to see the whole picture. The stories coming in from around the globe have often seemed fantastical: clandestine meetings in foreign capitals, secret recordings in a Moscow hotel, Kremlin agents infiltrating the Trump inner circle...

Seth Abramson has tracked every one of these far-flung reports and now, in Proof of Collusion, he finally gives us a record of the unthinkable - a president compromising American foreign policy in exchange for the promise of future business and covert election assistance. The attorney, professor and former criminal investigator has used his exacting legal mind and forensic acumen to compile, organise and analyse every piece of the Trump-Russia story. His conclusion is clear: the case for collusion is staring us in the face. Drawing from American and European news outlets, he takes readers through the Trump-Russia scandal chronologically, putting the developments in context and showing how they connect. His extraordinary march through all the public evidence includes:

* How Trump worked for thirty years to expand his real estate empire into Russia even as he was rescued from bankruptcy by Putin’s oligarchs and Kremlin agents.

* How Russian intelligence gathered compromising material on him over multiple trips.

* How Trump recruited Russian allies and business partners while running for president.

* How he surrounded himself with advisers who engaged in clandestine negotiations with Russia.

* How Trump aides and family members held secret meetings with foreign agents and lied about them.

By pulling every last thread of this complicated story together, Abramson argues that - even in the absence of a Congressional investigation or a report from Special Counsel Mueller - the public record already indicates a quid pro quo between Trump and the Kremlin. The most extraordinary part of the case for collusion is that so much of it unfolded in plain sight.©2018 Seth Abramson (P)2018 Simon & Schuster UK Political Science Politics & Government Russia Crime Business American Foreign Policy
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I have been following Seth's analysis on Twitter since late 2016 and even so I am learning new information and seeing connections that were obscured before. A must listen/read for anyone who is out of the loop on the biggest global political scandal likely ever seen. This is not a story you can sum up or dumb down, but I believe what Seth has done is the most thorough compilation of facts to date and deserves to be referenced for years into the future.

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In the years to come, Seth may well be seen by history as the most insightful and clear voice in helping a confused citizenry to comprehend this dark chapter in US history. What’s more, his predictions, based on hard evidence and publicly available facts, combined with his crystal clear understanding of both US law and journalism, have proved almost prophetic. Few people have the gift of being able to unravel such a complex web of corruption and deceit and to then relay it with such clarity to a varied audience.
Adding further weight to his goal of laying out a clear and dispassionate account of the timeline, he has managed to avoid sarcasm and twisting the knife, despite countless opportunities to do so.
What results is an utterly honest and unbiased account of what future generations will know as the darkest chapter in US political history.

Clear, Concise, Exhaustively Researched

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I like Seth's tweets but they don't make a book. Perhaps in written form the reader could skip bits but as a spoken book, it's unintelligible. Summaries, recaps and straight out repeats of great slabs mean this is agony to listen to. Couldn't finish it.

It could literally be half the length and still be repeatitive. A lot of the Trump books are rushed, but this one doesn't seem to have had any attention at all from an Editor.

Saying things over and over doesn't prove collusion, it proves you know how to copy and paste.

horribly repetitive

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