From the moment Donald Trump was elected presidentâeven before he was inauguratedâDemocrats called for his impeachment. That call, starting on the margins of the party and the press, steadily grew until it became a deafening media and Democratic obsession. It culminated first in the Mueller reportâwhich failed to find any evidence of criminal wrongdoing on the part of the presidentâand then in a failed impeachment.
And yet, even now, the Democrats and their media allies insist that President Trump must be guilty of something. They still accuse him of being a Russian stooge and an obstructer of justice. They claim he was ânot exoneratedâ by the Mueller report. But the truth, as veteran reporter Byron York makes clearâusing his unequaled access to sources inside Congress and the White Houseâis that Democrats and the media were gripped by an anti-Trump hysteria that blinded them to reality.
In a fast-moving story of real-life Washington intrigue, York reveals:
Why Donald Trumpâat firstâresisted advice to fire FBI director James ComeyThe strategy behind the Trump defense teamâs full cooperation with Muellerâs investigatorsâand how they felt betrayed by MuellerHow the Mueller team knew very early in the investigation that there was no evidence of âRussian collusionâWhy the Trump defense team began to suspect that Mueller was not really in charge of the special counsel investigationWhy Nancy Pelosi gave up trying to restrain her impeachment-obsessed partyWhy Trumpâs lawyersâcertain of his innocence in the Mueller investigationâwere even less worried about the Democratsâ Ukraine investigation.Byron York takes you inside the deliberations of the presidentâs defense counsel, interviews congressional Republicans who were shocked at the extremism of their Democratic colleaguesâand resolute in opposing themâand draws an unforgettable portrait of an administration under siege from an implacableâand obsessedâopposition party.
Byron York is chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner, a Fox News contributor, and a veteran presidential campaign, congressional, and White House reporter. His work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs, National Review, and the New Republic. A graduate of the University of Alabama and the University of Chicago, he lives in Washington, DC.