Find me the votes : a hard-charging Georgia prosecutor, a rogue president, and the plot to steal an American election

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Find me the votes : a hard-charging Georgia prosecutor, a rogue president, and the plot to steal an American election

Author:

Isikoff, Michael, author.

ISBN:

9781538739990

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

xv, 329 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Book one: The making of a DA -- Badass -- The law-and-order candidate -- Chaos in Atlanta -- Book two: A conspiracy in plain sight -- A confederate in the attic -- The targeting of innocents -- The QAnon commission -- The Republican stone wall -- The "perfect" phone call from hell -- Book three: The state of Georgia v. Donald John Trump -- The DA speaks -- A raid in rural Georgia -- A threat from Trump -- A very special grand juror -- A true bill -- Epilogue: the mug shot.

Personal Subject:

Trump, Donald, 1946--Trials, litigation, etc.

Trump, Donald, 1946-

Willis, Fani Taifa, 1971-

Corporate Subject:

Georgia. Superior Court (Fulton County) -- Trials, litigations, etc.

Subject Term:

Presidents -- Election -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- Cases.

Elections -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- Cases.

Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2020.

Public prosecutors -- Georgia -- Fulton County.

Elections -- Corrupt practices -- United States.

Political corruption -- United States -- History -- 21st century.

Geographic Term:

Georgia -- Trials, litigation, etc.

United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021.

Genre:

Informational works.

Added Author:

Klaidman, Daniel,

Summary:

"In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump's crimes as a voting rights case, and an attempt by the former president to deprive the citizens of Georgia of the franchise, a right for which her forebears had bled. Isikoff and Klaidman take us deep inside both the nerve center of Trump's effort to steal the election and the DA's team of prosecutors as they build their case against the president. Their reporting reveals new information on the plot to criminally seize voting equipment in several states; Sidney Powell's attempt to obtain preemptive pardons from Trump; and revelatory communications between the president and his co-conspirators. We see the prosecution take shape in Willis's office in the face of heinous threats of violent retaliation from Trump's supporters. With blockbuster original reporting and exclusive access to thousands of secret documents, emails, text messages, and audio recordings, Find Me the Votes is investigative journalism at its finest. The authors also conducted exclusive interviews with key sources in the Trump conspiracy, as well as with the president's top targets, including Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger and the Fulton County DA's team-featuring hours of interviews with Fani Willis herself. This is riveting contemporary history, and a lasting account of the prosecution of a president who tested the rule of law as no president ever had before. Isikoff and Klaidman have written a story for the ages."--

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From veteran award-winning investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, the epic inside story of the prosecution of a president.

In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president's conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor--a daughter of the civil rights movement--decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump's crimes as a voting rights case, and an attempt by the former president to deprive the citizens of Georgia of the franchise, a right for which her forebears had bled.

Isikoff and Klaidman take us deep inside both the nerve center of Trump's effort to steal the election and the DA's team of prosecutors as they build their case against the president. Their reporting reveals new information on the plot to criminally seize voting equipment in several states; Sidney Powell's attempt to obtain preemptive pardons from Trump; and revelatory communications between the president and his co-conspirators. We see the prosecution take shape in Willis's office in the face of heinous threats of violent retaliation from Trump's supporters.

With blockbuster original reporting and exclusive access to thousands of secret documents, emails, text messages, and audio recordings, Find Me the Votes is investigative journalism at its finest. The authors also conducted exclusive interviews with key sources in the Trump conspiracy, as well as with the president's top targets, including Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger and the Fulton County DA's team-featuring hours of interviews with Fani Willis herself. This is riveting contemporary history, and a lasting account of the prosecution of a president who tested the rule of law as no president ever had before. Isikoff and Klaidman have written a story for the ages.

Author Notes

Michael Isikoff is an award-winning Washington investigative journalist and the author of three New York Times bestsellers: Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story ; Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War (with David Corn); and Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (also with David Corn). He has worked for the Washington Post, Newsweek , NBC News, and Yahoo News and is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and other networks. He lives with his wife and son in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Klaidman is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brooklyn. He spent more than a decade at Newsweek, where he served as managing editor, Washington Bureau chief, Middle East correspondent, and investigative reporter. Klaidman was a key part of the teams that won National Magazine Awards for Newsweek 's coverage of 9/11 and the Monica Lewinsky affair. He previously served as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University and is the author of Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency. Most recently he was editor-in-chief of Yahoo News.

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Kirkus Review

The full story behind Donald Trump's alleged efforts to fix the vote in Georgia. The spur for Fani Willis to file charges against Trump, write veteran journalists Isikoff and Klaidman, was Trump's call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, with Trump's much-aired plea, "Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break." Willis, a county prosecutor, has been accused of reaching beyond her bailiwick, but one end of that recorded call happened in her county, the other in Florida--and though Florida requires that both parties to a call consent to its being recorded, that requirement is waived in the case of law enforcement. Isikoff and Klaidman reveal that Trump was fixated on Georgia, which he fervently believed he should have won, overlooking the increasing blueness of the state's most populous counties. He was seemingly obsessed with the thought that two Black election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, had miscounted the vote to deliver the state to Biden. As Freeman later remarked, "Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?" Trump's "laser-focus" on Georgia yielded much illegal activity from his administration and followers, including a plot to plant a slate of false electors, but also threats of violence against election workers and officials. One recipient was Raffensperger, who was oddly reluctant all the same to participate in Willis' case, having "made it clear from the start that if he was going to talk, he wanted a grand jury subpoena first." In many respects, Isikoff and Klaidman make Willis' case for her, though it awaits a courtroom airing, and they document beyond reasonable doubt the desperate efforts of Trump and company to subvert the democratic process. A prime source for those following the chain of trials awaiting the disgraced former president. Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Cast of Characters	ix
Prologue: The Body Double	1
Book 1 The Making of a DA
Chapter 1 Badass	9
Chapter 2 The Law-and-Order Candidate	36
Chapter 3 Chaos in Atlanta	54
Book 2 A Conspiracy in Plain Sight
Chapter 4 A Confederate in the Attic	73
Chapter 5 The Targeting of Innocents	96
Chapter 6 The QAnon Commission	116
Chapter 7 The Republican Stone Wall	145
Chapter 8 The "Perfect" Phone Call from Hell	169
Book 3 The State of Georgia v. Donald John Trump
Chapter 9 The DA Speaks	199
Chapter 10 A Raid in Rural Georgia	211
Chapter 11 A Threat from Trump	224
Chapter 12 A Very Special Grand Juror	235
Chapter 13 A True Bill	255
Epilogue: The Mug Shot	278
Acknowledgments	297
Notes on Reporting and Sources	303
Index	319

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