House of Trump, House of Putin

 

Book Review

House of Trump, House of Putin   by Craig Unger

Some time after polls closed in the USA following the 2016 Presidential election, Deputy Nikonov of the pro-Putin United Russia Party made the following announcement:

"Three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton admitted her defeat in US presidential elections and a second ago Trump started his speech as an elected president of the United States of America and I congratulate you on this."

"His statement was greeted by enthusiastic applause.  Donald J. Trump had just become Vladimir Putin's man in the White House."

This was just another step in a long-range plan of Putin's, as described by the US Senate:

"Ultimately, Putin's goal ... was to attack the democracies of Europe and the United States and undermine the transatlantic alliance upon which Europe's peace and prosperity have depended on for over 70 years."

Over the course of this exceptionally well researched and documented book, the author outlines how Trump, the Trump organization and the people around him, including many members of the Republican Party, cultivated relations with Russia and Putin.  The author also examines what is known about Putin's rise to power and how destabilizing the West was one of his primary objectives and how well he succeeded.

The question remains:

 "Are millions of Americans actually going to accept allegations that the president of the United States was serving the interests of a hostile foreign power?  I still wonder if the truth is too transgressive for the American public to accept"

We are still waiting to find out.