Unmaking of the President 2016, Lanny J. Davis
Unmaking of the President 2016, Lanny J. Davis
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Unmaking of the President 2016
How FBI Director James Comey Cost Hillary Clinton the Presidency

Author: Lanny J. Davis

Narrator: Arthur Morey

Unabridged: 6 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/06/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The first comprehensive account that proves that James Comey threw the 2016 election to Donald Trump. “Compelling criticism…lapsed Trump supporters might well open their minds to this attorney’s scholarly, entirely convincing proof of the damage done” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

During the week of October 24, 2016, Hillary Clinton was decisively ahead of Donald Trump in most polls. Then FBI Director James Comey sent his infamous letter to Congress on October 28, saying the bureau was investigating additional emails, potentially relevant to the Hillary Clinton email case. In The Unmaking of the President 2016, attorney Lanny J. Davis shows how Comey’s misguided announcement—just eleven days before the election—swung a significant number of voters away from Clinton, winning Trump an Electoral College victory—and the presidency.

Drawing on sources in the intelligence community and Justice Department, Davis challenges Comey's legal rationale for opening a criminal investigation of Clinton's email practices, questions whether Comey received sufficient Justice Department oversight, and cites the odd clairvoyance of Trump ally Rudolph Giuliani, who publicly predicted an "October surprise." Davis proves state by state, using authoritative polling data, how voter support for Clinton dropped after the Comey letter was made public, especially in key battleground states.

Despite so many other issues in the election—Trump’s behavior, the Russian hacking, Clinton's campaign missteps—after the October 28 Comey letter, everything changed. Now Davis proves with raw, indisputable data how Comey’s October letter cost Hillary Clinton the presidency and America turned the course of history in the blink of an eye.

About Lanny J. Davis

Lanny J. Davis is a lawyer who counsels individuals, corporations, and others on crisis management and legal issues. He served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton and was a spokesperson for the president and the White House on matters concerning campaign finance investigations and other legal issues. In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed Davis to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act. He graduated from Yale Law School, where he won the prestigious Thurman Arnold Moot Court prize and served on the Yale Law Journal. He is the author of The Unmaking of the President 2016.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on February 06, 2018

An essential primer on Whitewater, Email server issues and more. The epilogue has much about the Impeacement process, and the 25th Amendment. By itself this chapter is worth the read. Many could be served if more people understood the legal underpinnings and the seriousness of the wishes of the fram......more

Goodreads review by Robin on June 03, 2018

As a preface to reading Comey’s own book, in which he reportedly apologizes for breaching protocol by circulating cleverly-worded fake news about a candidate during the final days before a national election, I wanted to read this short book. Written by lawyer and Washington DC insider Lanny J. Davis......more

Goodreads review by Alec on February 18, 2018

If you’re prepared to revisit the Comey letter and get into the weeds, you must read this book. It all happened so fast we missed much of the detail, and more has been discovered after the fact. A national disaster- read it and weep......more

Goodreads review by Alva on March 11, 2018

Davis makes his cases as a practicing lawyer, as strongly as possible, then explains any qualifications that might need to be made without conceding his stated beliefs. The overall case, that Comey's "re-opening" of the Clinton e-mail investigation scant days before the election was both wrong and d......more

Goodreads review by Judy on November 21, 2022

Interesting to read this book after Trump is out of office and lost the 2022 election. The first part of the book is written like a thesis or dissertation and the author goes to great detail in showing how FBI Director Jim Comey's Oct. 28, 2016 letter to Congress cost Hillary Clinton the election. I......more