The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History

In 2016, the FBI opened a counterintelligence probe targeting the Trump campaign, but in The Plot Against the President, investigative journalist Lee Smith argues it was never what it claimed to be. Drawing on unprecedented access, Smith contends the entire Russia collusion narrative was a coordinated political operation designed to sabotage Trump as candidate, president-elect, and commander-in-chief. The man who first pulled the thread was Congressman Devin Nunes, whose team uncovered the involvement of political operatives, senior intelligence officials, and a complicit press in what Smith calls a slow-moving coup. A New York Times bestseller built on documented evidence and firsthand testimony, the account reaches a deeply troubling conclusion: that institutions designed to protect American democracy were turned against it by insiders determined to undo a legitimate election, and that without Nunes and his team, none of it would have come to light.