THE CORNERSTONE OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
In America, you are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to overthrow the democratically elected president of the United States and inflict irreparable damage on our country.
That, however, is what Donald Trump’s enemies on the Left and Right are doing. Through a variety of underhanded tactics—lies, leaks, obstruction, and violence—they are waging an all-out war to delegitimize President Trump and drive him from office before he can drain the swamp and take away their power.
Who are these determined and ruthless villains?
You’ve heard of many of them—Elizabeth Warren, Al Franken, George Soros. You’ve seen their names on Facebook and Twitter and heard them on TV—Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, Rachel Maddow. Others may be unfamiliar to you—Neera Tanden, Tom Steyer, Anna Galland. Still others are nameless—members of the permanent government, the so-called Deep State.
What all the villains have in common is their refusal to accept Donald Trump as their president. They live in an alternate universe of if-onlies: Hillary Clinton would have won the election if only the Russians hadn’t meddled in the election, if only FBI Director James Comey hadn’t reopened the investigation of Hillary’s emails shortly before Election Day, if only Bernie Sanders hadn’t damaged Hillary in the primaries, if only male voters hadn’t been women-haters, if only the Democratic National Committee had gotten its act together, if only there weren’t so many “deplorables” in America, if only. . .
“Right up until election night,” writes the Washington Examiner’s Michael Barone, “[the Democrats] believed that the future was forever theirs. Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. on Election Night, it became clear that this was . . . the god that failed.”
The villains have incited so much anti-Trump hysteria that the phenomenon has acquired a name. It’s called Trump Derangement Syndrome, and its symptoms range from the farcical to the terrifying:
• After the election, liberal women in Washington, DC, swarmed the Georgetown Salon & Spa and demanded that their hairdressers chop off their locks or change their hair color as a way to protest the outcome
• Cosmopolitan magazine ran a headline: “I Haven’t Had Sex in Weeks. I Blame Donald Trump”
• ABC’s Martha Raddatz, who hosted a presidential debate, teared up on camera when she learned that Trump won the presidency
• Democrats, including California Congresswoman Maxine Waters, talked openly about impeaching Trump even before he took office
• Reza Aslan, the host of CNN’s “Believer,” tweeted that Trump was “a piece of shit” who is “a stain on the presidency”
• A Bernie Sanders zealot opened fire on congressional Republicans practicing for a baseball game, seriously wounding House Whip Steve Scalise and injuring four others
The villains are prepared to overthrow the Trump presidency even if it undermines the cornerstone of American democracy—the peaceful transfer of power.
For 221 years—ever since John Adams defeated Thomas Jefferson in the election of 1796—the losing party has conceded defeat and moved on. That happened even after elections that were won by the squeakiest of margins—Kennedy vs. Nixon, Carter vs. Ford, Bush vs. Gore. This sacred tradition is being called into question for the first time in our history.
The villains are winning battle after battle against President Trump. He and his aides are the target of several congressional investigations, illegal leaks by the Deep State, daily lashings by the media, and Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is examining charges of obstruction of justice.
“Much of Washington clearly views Mr. Mueller as their agent to rid the country of a President they despise,” writes the Wall Street Journal. “Every political and social incentive in that city will press Mr. Mueller to oblige. But you cannot topple a duly elected President based merely on innuendo or partisan distaste without doing great harm to democracy.”
There are villains on both sides of the political divide. Those on the Left want to impeach Trump. Those on the Right—people in his own party who are disloyal to Trump—want to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, under which the cabinet would remove the president and replace him with Vice President Mike Pence.
Either course of action would amount to a coup d’état.
I wrote this book because the time is getting short to stop the villains from overthrowing our president. If you want to join the effort to prevent the villains from destroying our democracy, then this book—more than a year in the making and based on never-before-published information—is your essential guide.