Bearing Witness to America's Worst President: Essays on the Trump Disaster - Softcover

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Donald Trump is the worst president in American history according to historian Ray Smock. Readers of this book will learn how and why the author came to this unequivocal conclusion.Through a series of critical essays that combine breaking news with historical analysis, the author writes in real time as events unfold. He devoted his time to bearing witness to the Trump Administration through his essays because citizen vigilance is critical and essential in a republic where the people are the ultimate rulers, not elected officials. The Founders of this nation firmly held that the United States could not survive as a great experiment in democratic rule unless its citizens were armed with information and knowledge of how government works, and how it can fail. While journalists are often said to write the first draft of history, Smock demonstrates that historians can weigh in with keen insights as events happen. He concludes that there is already ample evidence to judge the failure of this administration from the public presidential record, the president’s own tweets and speeches, from the Mueller Report, the House Judiciary Committee’s Report on the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump, and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which completed its 5-volume bipartisan report on Russian inference in the 2016 election, with the final volume appearing in August 2020 with damning new evidence of Russian collusion.The president’s lack of leadership in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic is only one of his colossal failures. While many books have been written on Trump and his administration already, with many more to come, few will match the immediacy and the comprehensive analysis that Smock brings to the task based on his experience as a congressional and presidential historian who served as the first official historian of the House of Representatives. This book is the author's third on the Trump presidency. It contains key essays from the first two volumes as an appendix. All three volumes are available through Amazon.

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