The Apprentice: Trump, Mueller and the Subversion of American Democracy

by Greg Miller

Overview

A two-time Pulitzer-winning reporter examines the truth about Putin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency.
It has been called the political crime of the century: a foreign government, led by a brutal authoritarian leader, secretly interfering with the American presidential election to help elect the candidate of its choice. Now two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post national security reporter Greg Miller investigates the truth about the Kremlin's covert attempt to destroy Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump win the presidency, Trump's steadfast allegiance to Vladimir Putin, and Robert Mueller's ensuing investigation.
Based on interviews with hundreds of people in Trump's inner circle, current and former government officials, individuals with close ties to the White House, members of the law enforcement and intelligence communities, and foreign officials, as well as confidential documents, The Apprentice offers striking new information about what happened behind the scenes and in the shadows—and why while Trump may have ended up in the Oval Office, the real victor was Putin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062803726
Publisher:	Custom House
Publication date:	11/21/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	452
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

GREG MILLER is a national security reporter for the Washington Post. He was part of the team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for their groundbreaking stories on Russia's 2016 election interference and also part of the team awarded the 2014 Pulitzer for coverage of American surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden. 

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Part 1

1 The Hack 17

2 Putin's Trolls 33

3 Moths to the Flame 55

Part 2

4 "I Believe You Have Some Information for Us" 93

5 The Missing Emails 113

6 Crossfire Hurricane 135

7 Deep Inside the Kremlin 149

Part 3

8 Dezinformatsiya 175

9 The Russian Ambassador 193

10 Briefing the President 223

Part 4

11 You're Fired 261

12 The Special Counsel Strikes 289

Part 5

13 "I Can't Put on the Charm" 319

14 Helsinki 349

Epilogue 387

Acknowledgments 395

Notes 397

Index 413

Editorial Reviews

Lucid and startling…a scathing portrait of the commander-in-chief’s personal and political failings, compounded by the dismal inability of other politicians and institutions to get to grips with the abundant evidence of Russian meddling….The book is the clearest account yet of what Russia actually did.” — Times (UK)

“We cannot understand what happened in the 2016 election, Russia-gate or the imploding Trump presidency by reading the 24-hour digital news on our phones....Fortunately, we still have a simple technology invented nearly six centuries ago: books. Greg Miller has written a damn good one.” — Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian

From the Publisher

Lucid and startling…a scathing portrait of the commander-in-chief’s personal and political failings, compounded by the dismal inability of other politicians and institutions to get to grips with the abundant evidence of Russian meddling….The book is the clearest account yet of what Russia actually did.

Times (UK)

We cannot understand what happened in the 2016 election, Russia-gate or the imploding Trump presidency by reading the 24-hour digital news on our phones....Fortunately, we still have a simple technology invented nearly six centuries ago: books. Greg Miller has written a damn good one.

Kai Bird

Lucid and startling…a scathing portrait of the commander-in-chief’s personal and political failings, compounded by the dismal inability of other politicians and institutions to get to grips with the abundant evidence of Russian meddling….The book is the clearest account yet of what Russia actually did.

Times (UK)

Lucid and startling…a scathing portrait of the commander-in-chief’s personal and political failings, compounded by the dismal inability of other politicians and institutions to get to grips with the abundant evidence of Russian meddling….The book is the clearest account yet of what Russia actually did.

The Times (UK)