Summary of Lee Smith's The Plot Against the President

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In front of millions of people at home, Devin Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, met with special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller had spent more than $30 million on the investigation, and still, no evidence of collusion was found.
#2 On March 22, 2017, Nunes went to the White House to inform Trump about what he’d seen. He’d seen evidence of a plot against the president. While he said there was no physical wiretap of Trump Tower, he was concerned that other surveillance activities were used against Trump and his associates.
#3 The media campaign against Trump was backed by leaks of classified information and political dirt provided by Clinton operatives. This was all designed to undermine Trump’s campaign, and later, to bring down the president.
#4 Keith ripped into the first few licks of Jumpin’ Jack Flash, and the singer tipped his driving cap toward Nunes. The crowd erupted in cheers. Crossfire Hurricane was the name that the FBI gave to its investigation into the Trump campaign.

Sujets

• Politique
• Ideology

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669381778
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Lee Smith's The Plot Against the President
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In front of millions of people at home, Devin Nunes, the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, met with special counsel Robert Mueller. Mueller had spent more than $30 million on the investigation, and still, no evidence of collusion was found.

#2

On March 22, 2017, Nunes went to the White House to inform Trump about what he’d seen. He’d seen evidence of a plot against the president. While he said there was no physical wiretap of Trump Tower, he was concerned that other surveillance activities were used against Trump and his associates.

#3

The media campaign against Trump was backed by leaks of classified information and political dirt provided by Clinton operatives. This was all designed to undermine Trump’s campaign, and later, to bring down the president.

#4

Keith ripped into the first few licks of Jumpin’ Jack Flash, and the singer tipped his driving cap toward Nunes. The crowd erupted in cheers. Crossfire Hurricane was the name that the FBI gave to its investigation into the Trump campaign.

#5

The Nunes family is originally from the Azores, an autonomous region of Portugal consisting of a chain of islands 850 miles west of the Iberian Peninsula. They were poor but always made it through, even through the depression.

#6

The objective was achieved when the team uncovered the role played by DOJ official Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie in pushing the anti-Trump operation. They also discovered the text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and his mistress, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, that evidence the extent and nature of the anti-Trump operation.

#7

Without the efforts of the eight people in the Objective Medusa team, no one would have known what happened. They were outgunned by a confederation with unlimited financial resources and far superior numbers: the national security bureaucracy, political operatives, and the media. But they brought the truth to light.

#8

The FBI claims that the Trump investigation began on July 31, 2016. But according to Nunes and Patel, the anti-Trump operation began in winter 2015–2016. Their business concerns were related to Russia and Trump.

#9

Lieutenant General Michael Flynn was regarded as the top military intelligence officer of his generation. He revolutionized the nature of intelligence collection in battlefield settings by circumventing the intelligence bureaucracy.

#10

As 2015 came to a close, Flynn’s Beltway adversaries saw an opportunity to take down Flynn and Trump. They used a picture of the two men sitting next to Putin to do so.

#11

The operatives targeting Flynn needed to assemble a backstory to explain how the former US general had come to sit near Putin. They drew on data points scattered throughout his past. In 2014, Flynn had hosted a dinner in his campus apartment to celebrate a joint initiative between the DIA and the Cambridge Security Initiative.

#12

The university has a reputation for producing spies. In the 1980s, five of its students were recruited to serve communism, and one of them was Christopher Steele, who was tapped to fight the Cold War.

#13

Stefan Halper, a well-known figure in the Washington, DC, policy community, was hired by the Trump campaign in 2016. He was paid by the American government to gather information on strategic threats facing the United States. His work did not meet the standards of the Office of Net Assessment or merit the money he was paid.

#14

It appears that Halper was paid not for his research but rather for pet projects that were best kept off the books. He was used as an informant to spy on Trump campaign advisers, including Flynn.

#15

The narrative that Flynn had been compromised by the Russians was created and pushed by anti-Trump operators. The photograph of him seated with Putin became the first piece of falsified evidence in the dirty tricks campaign alleging that the Trump team had been compromised by the Kremlin.

#16

In early 2016, the media began to report on Trump’s often favorable opinions of Putin, who was then occupying the White House. Obama had turned a blind eye to Putin’s aggressions, as he needed him on board for the Iran deal.

#17

Obama scrapped the program in September 2012 because he believed he was dealing from a position of strength with Russia, despite their disagreements over Syria. Obama saw Moscow as a partner rather than an adversary.

#18

In late summer 2013, Putin was willing to work with Obama so long as it helped Russian interests. In exchange for Putin’s favor, Obama turned a blind eye when the Russians escalated their troop presence in Syria in September 2015.

#19

Trump’s foreign policy team was extremely thin in 2016, and the campaign suffered as a result. The first story about Carter Page appeared in the Washington Free Beacon on May 2, two days after Trump’s interview with the Post.

#20

In March 2016, the Washington, DC-based firm Fusion GPS was contracted by hedge fund manager Paul Singer to compile research on Trump. By April, a media campaign tying the New York billionaire to Russian interests was in full swing.

#21

As the Trump/Russia story grew in April, so did the media frenzy. But as with Obama’s Russia policies, none of this was news or analysis. It was simply evidence that top media organizations had become the platform for an information operation targeting the Trump campaign.

#22