Fred V. Lucas - Abuse of Power: Inside The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump

Advance Praise for Abus e of Power

That the Left tried to undo the results of the 2016 by whatever means necessary is not in doubt. Fred Lucas reminds us of the dangers this approach poses to constitutional government as he dissects what President Trump has rightly called one of the greatest hoaxes in our history.

Cal Thomas, syndicated columnist and bestsell ing author

A devastating and comprehensive takedown of Trumps impeachment, and a thoughtful look at the historical context of past impeachments, with strong reporting and research to combat the Lefts inevitable rewrite of history.

Sara Carter, Fox News Contributor, award-winning corre spondent, host of The Sara C arter Show

Fred Lucas goes beyond the tribalism to the truth. There doesnt need to be any partisan spin here, because the facts of the coup the Democrats attempted speak for the mselves.

Steve Deace, host of the Steve Deace Show on Th eBlaze TV

The attempted coup on President Trump is the biggest political scandal in our nations history. Fred Lucas pulls back the curtain in Abuse of Power . Many of the people involved thought they could get away with itun til now.

Phil Valentine , nationally syndicated talk radio host and bestselli ng author

Readers of mystery fiction may love a good whodunit but readers of historys mysteries seek the when, why, and how. Veteran Washington journalist Fred Lucas offers this definitive account of the Trump impeachment, and in the process, gives us a real page turner.

J.D. Hayworth, member of Congress from Arizona from 19952007

Fred Lucas packs a powerful punch as he breathes new life into the very recent events that are a part of American history. His book is a must-read to understand why Democrats pursued an impeachment the country did not want and why Republicans stood by th eir man.

John Gizzi, White House Correspondent and Chief Political Corresponden t, Newsmax

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Abuse of Power:

Inside The Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump

2020 by Fred V. Lucas

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C O N T E N T S

By Craig Shirley,
New York Times bestselling author
and presidential historian

One of my favorite writers and my favorite wit, Dorothy Parker, once said, If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style . The first greatest is to shoot them now, while they re happy.

Who cant help but love a woman and writer who once quipped, You can lead a horticulture, but you cant make h er think?

Much of Parkers life was spent hanging around with the sodden Lost Generation at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City after World War I. Parker and company had looked at the world and were disappointed to find out that life on this planet was not perfect. She was drinking too much with the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald but once said, I am not a writer with a drinking problem. I am a drinker with a writing problem.

Fortunately for us, Fred Lucas doesnt hang around scruffy hotels or drink too much, both very much to our benefit. What Fred does do is write appreciably and think even more, but not sullenly like members of the Lost G eneration.

Fred Lucas is fast becoming one of the most important political writers in America today, as hes proven after a number of years reporting on the White House and national politics for the Daily Signal , Newsmax , Fox News, and other outlets. His writing style is brisk, bracing, and with a freshness of perspective, looking at politics and life in a different way than others of his g eneration.

Now, this talented journalist has produced Abuse of Power: Inside the Three-Year Campaign to Impeach Donald Trump , an insightful and incisive look at the rationale and reasons behind the impeachment of Donald J. Trump.

Trump is only the third president to have such grave charges brought ag ainst him.

The first, Andrew Johnson, the successor to Abraham Lincoln, was essentially impeached for neither being Lincoln nor pursuing all of the Great Emancipators programs. In other words, Johnson was impeached for politica l reasons.

One hundred and thirty years later, Bill Clinton was impeached for, again, political reasons. Clinton wasnt called Slick Willie for nothing. Calamity after calamitydodging the draft, women, cronyism, Whitewater, and othersthat would have taken down other politicians did not stop Clinton. It only slowed him, and that was not enough for the Republicans. They impeached Clinton for lying about extramarital sex with a young girl, but, again, political reasons. The GOP suffered as a co nsequence.

Then came Trump. The elites of the Democratic Party and the liberal establishment, from Hollywood to academia to the newsroom of the Washington Post , despised Donald Trump and despise him even more today. Trump never paid his dues, they believe; never bowed down to them, they complain; and never respected them. On that score, they are right.

The Democratic Party nominated its worst presidential candidate since George McGovern in 2016. Hillary Clinton spent much of her campaign insulting huge segments of the American people. It was music to the ears of the liberal elites but discordant to Re publicans.

Hillary Clinton simply reminded many men in America of their first wives. No wonder she lost.

American liberals like power and are very comfortable wielding it. They really dont like it when Republicans have power, and they view such a world as illegitimate. But The elite who created the government of the United States believed that they could speak legitimately only in the name of a people each individual of whom was putatively equal, said the landmark book, Populism and Elitism. Whatever one thinks of Trumps fitness for office, that fitness is best determined at the b allot box.

Having lost in the Electoral Collegethat great instrument of genius created by our Founders, a bunch of old, white, privileged malesand fearing that Lincoln, on the other hand, once referred to the Founding as the mystical chords o f memory.

Trump just might successfully do the things he promised on the campaign (and he did do many of these things), the Democrats fell back on imp eachment.

And the political impeachment of Donald Trump failed, and, bitterly, Nancy Pelosi was left with only a fig leaf of im peachment.

The liberal media rightly focus on Trumps childish name-calling, but even so, they overlook all of the insults heaped on Trump and his family. Media commentators and too often news people jumped aboard the narrative that Trump the person was simply unacceptablesomewhat blind to the fact that elections matter in a republic.

Say what you will about Donald Trump, but the Democrats didnt want to wait four years for the next national plebiscite. They wanted to jump ahead of the will of the American people and impeach Trump, and here, in Freds book, is the story behind the story of the reasons for and why illegitimate impeachment was sought. Fred takes the reader through the corridors of power, through the seething hotbeds of hate of the professional hate-Trump industry, through the extreme radicalization of the now dark Democrats, from Elizabeth Warren and Nancy Pelosi to The Squad (the hate-America mongers in the House), and to the first and reliable sources of the powers defend ing Trump.