The Red Thread

A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy

By: Diana West

Narrated by: Diana West

Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

The first investigation into why a ring of senior Washington officials went rogue to derail the election and the presidency of Donald Trump. 

There was nothing normal about the 2016 presidential election, not when senior US officials were turning the surveillance powers of the federal government - designed to stop terrorist attacks - against the Republican presidential team. These were the ruthless tactics of a Soviet-style police state, not a democratic republic. 

The Red Thread asks the simple question: Why? What is it that motivated these anti-Trump conspirators from inside and around the Obama administration and Clinton networks to depart so drastically from “politics as usual” to participate in a seditious effort to overturn an election? 

Finding clues in an array of sources, Diana West uses her trademark investigative skills, honed in her dazzling work American Betrayal, to construct a fascinating series of ideological profiles of well-known but little-understood anti-Trump actors, from James Comey to Christopher Steele to Nellie Ohr and the rest of the Fusion GPS team; from John Brennan to the numerous Clintonistas still patrolling the Washington Swamp after all these years, and more. 

Once, we knew these officials by august titles and reputation; after The Red Thread, listeners will recognize their multigenerational and interconnecting communist and socialist pedigrees and see them for what they really are: foot soldiers of the left, deployed to take down America’s first “America First” and most anti-communist president. 

If we just give it a pull, the “red thread” is very long and very deep.

©2019 Center for Security Policy (P)2019 Diana West

Welcome addition to "American Betrayal"!

I discovered Diana West by chance on Youtube during an interview with Stephan Moleneux, and it was a delightful exchange, so I thought I'd look up her books. I have both on audio and I listened to this one first. Now, I am almost finished with "American Betrayal", and I must say that the material in the Red Thread makes a lot more sense as I get farther and farther into the earlier work. "Red Thread" is easily understood without the background, but to shamelessly jump on the analogy bandwagon here, the Trump "blanket" turns into a complicated "tapestry" as you go farther back in time. The most impressive and intriguing aspect of both of these books is the volume of material! Just the volume alone, the references, the incredible detail of events long forgotten, is worth the read. Anyone wanting more information about the topic should get a pen and paper ready as you listen (or as you read) and follow the same literary path that Diana West has here: just fascinating, terrifying, and a very large sense of relief: that someone is "doing the work" of trying to map out the past, to see the threads of influence in our country. One of the first books I read was J. Edgar Hoover's book "Masters of Deceit", and then, in 2007, Paul Kengor's excellent book "Dupes: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century".
I would highly recommend both of Diana West's book and I will be picking up "death of the grown up" as well. There's a whole lot to unpack in "Threads" and "Betrayal". Looking forward to it.

Your most dangerous enemy you refuse to see.

Diana West is the foremost researcher on Soviet infiltration into Western governments now that M. Stanton Evans has passed. In this book, she reveals the probable and likely ties that many of the anti-Trump conspirators have to the Kremlin based on their past associations with, and sometimes open praise of the Soviet Empire and its most notorious subversion arm, the KGB.

Diana West Rocks!

Deep dive into the foundations of the perpetrators of the “red scare” against candidate and then President Donald Trump and their ideology
She does an exceptional job with the narration
Love the voices should get 6 stars for performance

No wonder people don't learn about red atrocities

A terrifying overlook on communist influence in US and international politics. A short and straight to the point book

Excellent background on Russiagate Participants

Who could have guessed that so many instigators of the Anti-Trump Russian Collusion disinformation have ties to Russia and Communism? Diana West makes a compelling argument, based on their own words and deeds, for a systematic motivation based on Communist ideology. It is becoming harder to believe that this disruptive undermining of President Trump and the American people was not a coordinated and malicious conspiracy.

Excellent clear history

This book has answered many questions and ties in may actors past and present that is a threat to our country. This is a must read or listen.

Must read. Full of details about spygate plotters

If you are following the USA's current spygate and FISA-gate scandal, this book is an absolute must-read. It is full of background details about the plotters which are seldom or never mentioned elsewhere. John Brennan's communist past is well known, but James Comey's communist influences are a lot less well known. The book also covers Hillary Clinton, Bill Browder, John Kerry, Christopher Steele, David Kramer and Nellie Ohr, along with the people who influenced them.

The book is short, however it is well worth the purchase price or well worth one credit.

Diana West does a splendid job of narrating her own book.

Top Notch!

Fascinating in depth review of todays Top Consiprators and they're roots. Truly eye opening.
Scary.

Holy Crap

If you always suspected something was not right in Washington, this book confirms it. Well written and documented.

It is disheartening how revisionist history has shaped our country over the past century. If there was ever a time to someone to stand up to the swamp, this is it.

Highly recommended to everyone

An inciteful background into modern Western politics. A truly worthwhile read for anyone curious about what's behind the impeachment of Trump.