Klein is basically an investigative reporter who has written a great book on the efforts to reverse the results of the 2016 presidential election. It is an old fashioned type report based on facts with little opinion.
He details how three major institutions have banded together to destroy the Trump presidency. These are the Deep State (the permanent bureaucratic government in DC), Congress, and the “streets.” There is also most of the media which acts as the propaganda department for these institutions. On Inauguration Day in 2017, the Washington Post announced that the campaign to impeach Trump had begun and then did everything it could to support that campaign.
The main actors have been Democrats, the Washington intelligence bureaucracies, the media, and some RINOs (politicians who are Republican In Name Only). Klein shows how these elements created the whole Russian collusion crisis. First, Obama’s Department of Justice succeeded in obtaining a FISA warrant to surveill Trump’s campaign after twice being denied by the FISA court. Then Susan Rice got Obama to lower the classification level of the information obtained so that it could be disseminated to all Washington intelligence agencies. The Obama bureaucrats there then leaked this information to the media and it has been the basis of the hysteria we see today based on the implication that any contact must be collusion. Before the election the New York Times declared the leaked material to show no collusion, but switched to claiming collusion after Trump had won.
The anti-Trump elites were certain a new “Ascendant America” coalition of minority, Millennial, and single women voters would bring victory. But when Trump won by appealing to mainly…