05182cam a2200625 i 4500 in00024448226 BJBSDDR 20260819175130.0 ta 250819s2025 nyu e b 001 0 eng c 2026349104 9780593831373 (hardcover) 0593831373 (hardcover) 9780593831380 (ebook) (OCoLC)1533709269 IG# eng rda IG# BDX CCPLG OCLCO LE# JFL OCLCO MNX GWL OCLCO SDD IG# BKL YOL MWD KLG YEQ CLU OCLCO WLL MDB DLC eng pcc n-us--- KF 5107 L585i 2025 353.40973 Leonnig, Carol, 1966- 24208 Injustice : how politics and fear vanquished America's Justice Department / Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis. How politics and fear vanquished America's Justice Department New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2025. xxiv, 471 pages ; 25 cm . text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-456) and index. Introduction -- Part one. A righteous prosecution? -- Was Trump beholden to Egypt? -- A trusting Mueller and a failure to see the endgame -- Where did the $10 million go? -- "I'm pretty sure I'm getting indicted today" -- Forced out -- A "very unfair situation" -- "Truth still matters, ok?" -- Winners write the history -- Sowing chaos -- "He's asking you to be wild" -- "A hot mess" -- January 6 -- Part two. An early distraction for investigators -- A prosecutor's plan is batted down -- Family feud -- Unmoved by Trump -- Hill investigators find "the scheme" -- The lone prosecutor -- "I'm not subpoenaing the friggin' Willard" -- One year later -- "Weapon left at the crime scene" -- A new matter -- Operation "Arctic Frost" -- "I don't want anybody looking through my boxes" -- House investigation blindsides DOJ -- Family feud--part II -- No choice -- Part three. Existential threat -- Great story, not a great case -- "The President is now a king" -- "The judiciary failed" -- Servare vitas -- Sign, quit, or get fired -- "At the directive of Donald Trump". "Throughout his first administration, Donald Trump did more than any other president to politicize the nation's top law enforcement agency, pressuring appointees to shield him, to target his enemies, and even to help him cling to power after his 2020 election defeat. The Department, pressed into a defensive crouch, has never fully recovered. Injustice exposes not only the Trump administration's efforts to undermine the Department at every turn but also how delays in investigating Trump's effort to overturn the will of voters under Attorney General Merrick Garland helped prevent the country from holding Trump accountable and enabled his return to power. Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis take readers inside as prosecutors convulsed over Trump's disdain for the rule of law, and FBI agents, the department's storied investigators, at times retreated in fear. They take you to the rooms where Special Counsel Jack Smith's team set off on an all-but-impossible race to investigate Trump for absconding with classified documents and waging an assault on democracy--and inside his prosecution's heroic and fateful choices that ultimately backfired. With a plethora of sources deeply embedded in the ranks of three presidencies, Leonnig and Davis reveal the daily war secretly waged for the soul of the department, how it has been shredded by propaganda and partisanship, and how--if the United States hopes to live on with its same form of government--Trump's war with the Justice Department will mark a turning point from which it will be hard to recover" -- Dust jacket. Trump, Donald, 1946- 10604 United States. Department of Justice. Estados Unidos. Departamento de Justicia 30334 Political culture United States. Administración de justicia Estados Unidos 2854 Cultura política Estados Unidos 2268 Political corruption United States. Corrupción Política Estados Unidos 157 Misconduct in office United States. Mala conducta en el cargo Estados Unidos 42837 Administration of criminal justice United States. sears Administration of justice United States. sears Political corruption United States. sears Rule of law. sears United States Politics and government 21st century. Estados Unidos Política y gobierno Siglo XXI 9887 États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 21e siècle. United States Politics and government. sears Davis, Aaron C. 50119 0 ibc pccadap 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 127883 127883 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2026-08-05 0 KF 5107 L585i 2025 00000201914 2026-08-05 13:42:00 1 2026-08-05 BK