2 Stars — Defamatory with Malice — Authors Started with a List of “Crazy” and Built Book Around Their Maliciously-Contrived Outline
Reviewed by Robert David Steele
This is in my view a defamatory work, and President Donald Trump, despite being the most public of figures, can and should sue the authors and the publishers for defamation because I am sure that discovery (the emails, calls, sworn testimony) will document malice — this book was designed to defame the President with a total disregard for the truth. Indeed, as best I can tell, this book STARTED with a checklist for “crazy” and was built from the ground up to document — with selective materials and the deliberate exclusion of all countervailing materials — that the President is “crazy.”
I examined the endnotes and the index very carefully, and what I found — given that I follow the news on Trump carefully — is that this book is based mostly on cherry-picked online sources and a pre-conceived outline of the following”mental illness characteristics” that the authors have sought to portray (and carefully indexed, conveniently revealing their starting point):
- Abuse of Subordinates
- Addition to Media
- Alignment with Authoritarian Leaders
- Avoiding Payment
- Belief That He Is Above the Law
- Childishness
- Cohen’s Testimony On
- Competitiveness
- Exclusive Dependence on Own Ability
- Hunger for Praise and Recognition
- Ignorance
- Image Focus
- Impulsivity
- Insecurity
- Loyalty Focus
- Lying
- Paranoia
- Racism
- Rages
- Reading Difficulty
- Short Attention Span
- Solipsism (pretentious word for self-centered)
- Transgression
- Tranparency
- Unwillingness to Take Responsibility
It just makes me sick to see The Washington Post (and The New York Times) respresented by such dishonorable cretins.
This book is a media hit job and the authors’ claim to be truth seekers is clearly a lie — the book is out of touch with both the President’s actual accomplishments, and with today’s reality — the Manafort case thrown out on appeal; Flynn about to be exonerated, a nothing burger of a Mueller report, the impeachment farce about to end and in passing, the unification and denuclearization of the Koreas and peace in the Middle East coming soon. Add accomplishments related to family, economy, immigration, and trade and you get everything that is NOT in this book.
I read this book carefully, in part to get a sense of the sources. The sources generally do not actually appear in the endnotes (neither by name nor by referred anonymous interview) but based on my reading I think the sources were, in alphabetical order
- Bannon
- Brennan
- Clapper
- Conway (Husband)
- Kelly
- Mattis
- McGahn
- McMaster
- Mueller
- Pence
- Preibus
- Rosenstein
- Tillerson
- Sessions
Kelly, Mattis, and Tillerson strike me as especially attentive to the authors’ search for dirt. I have no doubt missed a few including the obvious morons in Congress such as Schiff the dick and Nadler the (very large) ass. Schumer is probably in here as well, but not obviously.
Yes, our President has his flaws, including being very willful and abrupt with those who do not meet his standards, but given the state of the country when he took over, I think he has shown restraint and enormous patience.
I must also say that there is a very strong reek of plagarism in this book. I don’t have the time to compare and contrast passages, but I list the other books I have reviewed on Trump below and it is my conclusion that the authors have copied liberally from others — they started with the outline above , the goal being to “frame” the President, cherry picked some online sources, and then filled in with material from selective interviews and relevant books available to them.
I will make just three points in dismissing this book:
01 within the book the authors express shock, dismay, angst, and more over the President demanding that South Korea pay the costs of US military systems and personnel, specifically the $10 billion anti-missile defense system. What kind of moron do you have to be to not see the sense of that?
02 the authors do not include either of the following as a reference because it does not fit their despicable defamatory narrative:
Yoda: A List of Accomplishments by President Donald Trump
03 Here are two bits from a book (Team of Vipers) that the authors did NOT copy:
Jack Welch on Donald Trump (132): “They can say what they want about him, but I don’t know if any president has been more prepared to sit in that room and talk business. It was like talking to a peer, not a politician. Hell of a meeting.”
The author (of Team of Vipers) bottom line on our President Donald Trump:
QUOTE (247): “I marveled at Trump’s willingness to endure a seemingly limitless amount of criticism and never waiver. He was fearless—the rarest of traits among politicians. If he believed he was doing the right thing, he was willing to weather any storm. And yet Trump always remained a walking contradiction. He was the bravest person I’d ever seen in the face of public scrutiny, but resented relatively mild critiques from his aides. He was arguably the toughest political combatant in modern American history, but often shied away from making much-needed staff changes that would cause conflict in private. He was an idealist—a true believer in his populist, nationalist worldview—but pragmatically cut deals with anyone willing to make an interesting offer. He was less afraid to do the right thing—the difficult thing—than anyone I’d ever met but sometimes seemed to lack the guiding principles that could lead him what exactly the ‘right thing’ was.”
Here are other books I have reviewed. All of them, without exception, are better reads than this book. If I were on the jury, it would not be difficult for me to conclude that this book was designed to defame, to injure, to manipulate voters, without regard to any standard for balanced reporting.
6 Star
Review: Trumped! How Tweets, Trolls, and Memes Won the Presidency for Donald Trump
Review: Team of Vipers – My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House
Review: Kushner Inc. – Greed. Ambition. Corruption
Review: The Great Revolt – Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics
5 Star
Review: Deer Hunting with Jesus–Dispatches from America’s Class War
Review: Trump and the Resurrection of America: Leading America’s Second Revolution
Review: Screwed–The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class — And What We Can Do About It
Review: Leave Us Alone–Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives
Review: Blue Collar Ministry–Facing Economic and Social Realities of Working People
Robert Steele: Book Review Essay – UNHINGED? Donald Trump, His Family, His Appointees, and Everyone Else [Wolff Fire & Fury, Lweandowsky & Bossie Let Trump Be Trump, Gingrich Understanding Trump)
4 Star
Review: One Market Under God–Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy
Review: The Marketing of Evil–How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As FreedomReview: FEAR – Trump & The White House
3 Star
Review: FEAR – Trump & The White House
There is much about the current Administration that troubles me, including unkept promises, no arrests yet, bending to Zionist Israel, and not defending the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments of the Constitution — and not implementing #UNRIG election reform — but on balance I give our President a 4 out of 5 — and a solid 5 given that he is fighting for his life and ours against the Deep State and the Shadow Government that owns the two-party tyranny. The authors are scum. In seeking to portray our president as mentally and emotionally unsuited, they are not only demonstrating that they are scum, they are also challenging the Electoral College and the public majority (once the Google and illegal alien voters are discounted) that elected our President. These two fools probably don’t even know that the Electoral College exists because the President is elected by the STATES, not the public, and the Senators, once we overturn the unratified 17th Amendment, are supposed to represent the STATES, not the public — it is the House that represents the public.
Just shaking my head. The authors will probably get a Pulitzer Prize for this book (one of them got a Pulitzer Prize for getting the Russia Witchhunt wrong) and they will make millions of dollars, all rooted in the deliberate defamation of the President of the United States of America.
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers.
A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today the Chief Enabling Officer (CeO) of Earth Intelligence Network, a 501c3, and now also CeO of Open Source Everything (OSE Inc.). He continues his education with non-fiction reading, posting over 2,000 reviews across 98 categories; his hobbies include off-shore sailing and racketball.
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I just love tormenting all you fools. I got Gordon’s specific permission to post the piece knowing it would rouse the rabble.
Cindy, I rate from 1-7. 1-5 is the normal range, I rarely waste my time writing a review of a book that has not earned a 4 or 5 (6 is top 10% over 2,000+ books, and 7 is cosmic mind-altering value, you can see the below two links for my recent lecture on top books, and all my reviews.
https://tinyurl.com/Steele-Top-Books
https://phibetaiota.net/reviews/
In rare cases, I will review a crap book because it cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged. This is such a book. It is a formula book crafted with malice. FIRST, they made a lost of all the mental issues that the bitch Yale shrink (who should lose her license) and others have put forward, THEN they cherry picked easy to find online sources (no real research into trade, immigration, or anything else), and THEN they filled in the blank spaces with what looks like a mix of plagarism, glibness, and selected interviews from known enemies of The Donald.
Most of you simply have no clue and are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. No need to get over it, history will leave you by the wayside. The Republic is being reconstituted, the Constitution is coming back, and faith, family, and community are on the anchor leg.
Your ratings on other books starts from 6. Is this rating 6 out of 10? or 6 been the highest rating meaning its awesome, epic, excellent, or whatever adjective one may use to describe something good?
To think that the very stable genius ordered 10,000 copies without having read the book should be enough proof that he, indeed, has a 73 IQ, and rightly deserves to be called a ‘moron’. The whole world knows him as a half-baked blowhard. To stand by this perverted, lowlife who has debased and insulted top military brass, wants to legalize bribery of foreign officials, has downplayed serious veteran brain injuries as headaches, has ordered hit jobs, and is constantly lying about his ties to Parnas, is to worship a mobster and ruin one’s reputation. VT meticulously documented Trump’s past (thank you Mr. Duff). Trump knows only Crime. tinyurl.com/samedon
This is so ridiculous that its insane to think that anyone with braincells can support the GOP or Trump, considering Trumps pedophilia, rapes, murders on and on and of course the Neocon wars and whether abroad or against the American people HAVE BEEN THE REAL DEEP STATE FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, FROM Ronnie Reagan to Newt Gingrich under Clinton to Cheney and Rumsfeld to McCain under Obama to Trump and Pompeo. It’s been the neocon military industrial complex. NEOCONS ARE THE DEEP STATE AND HAVE BEEN FOR THIRTY YEARS AND ‘THEY’ PUT TRUMP THERE, and you want to bloviate about Trump getting fair treatment when HE HIMSELF WAS UNFAIR TO OBAMA, and you yourself disgustingly attacked Obama unfairly for god knows how long? While Trump is KNOWN TO HAVE RAPED PEOPLE, killed people, including Suleimanie (while he falsely sent information to him that he wanted ‘mediated’ peace only for him to send in the bombs), (basically a war crime under the Geneva convention).
Where is the fair treatment Trump is suppose to give people? HOW ABOUT THE IRAN deal which was to suppose to bring peace and yet you endlessly attacked Obama, WHICH IS OUTRIGHT BIGOTRY, by attacking him in trying to create an opening for peace, for only the rapist Trump to tear it up when he becomes president and starve the Iranian people further to death with the Sanctions Weapons? Where is the fairness in him for doing that? Or you for your hypocritical attacks? This article is another sick joke as to why so many of the American people that support Trump have become satanists
Ultimation has had it with the constant liars who support the CONSTANT GOP RE BRANDING SO THEY CAN NEVER be rightfully destroyed. From the ‘moral majority’ in the 80s, to Pat Robertson’s ‘Christian America’ in the 90s, to ‘Patriots in the 00s, to Tea Party in the late 00s to early ’10s to the Trumpers in the late ’10s. These same GOP HAVE destroyed THE youth of this generation EVERYWHERE, IN THE US BY SENDING THEM ABROAD TO BE KILLED AND KILLING THE YOUTH ABROAD AND LABELING THEM ALL TERRORISTS. When the youth come back to America they are THEN FED DRUGS BY GOP BUSINESSMEN, THE YOUTH ABROAD WERE PUT IN CAGES AND ITS ALL BACK THANKS TO TRUMP. Black sites and torture and calling everyone mOzLeM another Terrorist is back. The Democrat demon who sells out has nothing on the Republican monster who DESTROYS EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE IT TOUCHES. THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THOSE WHO SUPPORT THE US MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ITSELF. Whoever supports the ‘FAKE” Trump mask sold themselves for nothing. You should look in the mirror.
RDS , Are You out of your mind ? can’t you see this Freaky Pig called Trump is Destroying Everything and Today We Stand at the Start of WW3 OR maybe you’re a Red Neck
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