Injustice

How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

De: Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis

Narrado por: January LaVoy, Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

“An amazing piece of work . . . This is not just a series of newly reported anecdotes and pieces of information. It is a remarkable thesis about how Trump effectively broke the Justice Department in his first term by bullying it.” —Rachel Maddow, The Rachel Maddow Show

From Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America’s rule of law as we have long known it

Throughout his first administration, 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. With never-before-told accounts, 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. Injustice is the jaw-dropping account of partisans and enablers undoing democracy, heroes still battling to preserve a nation governed by laws, and a call to action for those who believe in liberty and justice for all.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Most legal stories rely on the inherent drama of trials, but in Injustice Leonnig and Davis take on the more challenging assignment of depicting a bureaucracy. Zoom meetings, as a rule, are less riveting than cross-examinations, but their upshots, especially here, can be more consequential. The heart of Injustice is the authors’ reconstruction of how Garland led the investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attempt to overturn the 2020 election . . . If Injustice has heroes, it’s the investigators from the House Select Committee on the events of Jan. 6, who did what Garland forbade his subordinates to do: examine the role of Trump and his White House in the attack on the Capitol . . . The disturbing takeaway of Injustice is that, at the Justice Department, political independence has been replaced by abject servility to Trump." —Jeffrey Toobin, The New York Times Book Review

"The most detailed account yet of the Justice Department’s disastrous effort to bring Donald Trump to trial during Joe Biden’s administration, which is likely to long rank among U.S. law enforcement’s greatest failures. History will not judge this effort kindly, but perhaps more importantly — at this fractious and precarious moment in American politics — [Injustice] contains critical lessons for a future administration that wants to focus on serious legal accountability for powerful political figures . . . If Democrats are to avoid making the same mistakes all over again, Leonnig and Davis’ book offers both an engaging and enraging opportunity to learn. It’s a journalistic tour-de-force." —Politico

Gripping, depressing, yet motivational!

This book is a fascinating behind the scenes look at what we all saw playing out before our very eyes, and which some of us did not take seriously enough. While many of us berated Merrick Garland for being a weak AG who was dragging his feet on bringing a traitor to justice, he was trying to not look like his actions were politically motivated (as they weren’t); more worried about demonstrating integrity in the system than about bringing swift justice to a
man who’d tried to run a coup to keep the presidency he’d lost. But all the delay didn’t have the effect Garland wanted. Instead, trump was able to use the drawn out process to present himself as a political martyr, just as he would have during a swifter process, only having more time to gain sympathetic ears and sympathetic votes that got him back into the oval office.
The excellent research and relating of the events that got us where we are today

The Truth

while this book should open the eyes of Trumpers, it probably will not. Leonnig is such a superb writer that when you finish the book, you know for a fact that every word is the truth and an alarming reminder of the evil within Trump.

well wtitten

Some people might disagree with the opinions expressed by the authors, but the adjectives are not what make this book worth reading.. The background information learned about the participants is. Even if you disagree with some of the premises I see no reason to disavow the morives if the people written about.. I call this kind of book opinion history. Anyone can develop their own views as long as they read books from both sides of the spectrum. The narration was good.

Comprehensive yet succinct account

Enjoyed the inside view of what happened at the DOJ. Sadly it shows that the DOJ failed us

A historical narrative

And amazing historical and accurate narration of what our country has been experiencing, and now facing the end of our democracy.

Most important book of the year!

Facts matter. The dissolution of democracy matters. impartial law and order matter. What are we as citizens of the United States going to do about our authoritarian government? This book, carefully researched, presents alarming facts about our nation that need to be shouted from the rooftops!

Complete injustice-great listen

Shocking storytelling of behind the scenes details that surrounded(s) this criminal administration. A foreboding of what we are to expect for the next few years. Continuing criminality.

Chilling

A small amount of learning to read to an audience but quickly caught on. This is a chilling true story about the destruction of the DOJ.

Well written and performed. A story of how evil has taken over much of our government

Despite the Evelyn’s in our
Government there are still people willing to stand for the constitution and the rule of law. It is sad how far our democracy has deteriorated. We must all stand firm.

concise. easy read.

Blame John Roberts is my take home after reading this book. He and his conservative SCOTUS by creating out of thin air Presidential immunity have ruined this country and the concept of equal justice under the law.