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Instant New York Times Bestseller
"A richly documented indictment of power and corruption." -- Kirkus Reviews
Through diligent research, Seth Abramson exposes a story that U.S. media has largely missed: a pre-election geopolitical conspiracy involving Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and Russia that sought to put Trump in the White House--and succeeded.
In late 2015, convicted pedophile, international dealmaker, and cooperating witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation George Nader convened a secret meeting aboard a massive luxury yacht in the Red Sea. Nader pitched Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and other Middle Eastern leaders a plan for a new pro-U.S., pro-Israel alliance of Arab nations that would fundamentally alter the geopolitics of the Middle East while marginalizing Iran, Qatar, and Turkey. To succeed, the plan would need a highly placed American politician willing to drop sanctions on Russia so that Vladimir Putin would in turn agree to end his support for Iran. They agreed the perfect American partner was Donald Trump, who had benefited immensely from his Saudi, Emirati, and Russian dealings for many years, and who, in 2015, became the only U.S. presidential candidate to argue for a unilateral end to Russian sanctions and a far more hostile approach to Iran.
So begins New York Times bestselling author Seth Abramson's explosive new book Proof of Conspiracy: How Trump's International Collusion Threatens American Democracy , a story of international intrigue whose massive cast of characters includes Israeli intelligence operatives, Russian oligarchs, Saudi death squads, American mercenary companies, Trump's innermost circle, and several members of the Trump family as well as Trump himself--all part of a clandestine multinational narrative that takes us from Washington, D.C. and Moscow to the Middle Eastern capitals of Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Jerusalem, Cairo, Tehran, and Doha. Proof of Conspiracy is a chilling and unforgettable depiction of the dangers America and the world now face.
Author Notes
Seth Abramson was born on October 31, 1976. He is an investigative journalist, lawyer, editor and professor. He graduated Dartmouth College in 1998 and Harvard Law School in 2001. After graduation he became an assistant professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at University of New Hampshire. His specialities include digital journalism, post-internet writing, and legal advocacy. He has also been a columnist for The Huffington Post, Indiewire, and Poets and Writers. His title's include Bestr American Experimental Writing , Proof of Collusion, Golden Age, and The Poets and Writers Guide to MFA Handbook.
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Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
CNN analyst Abramson's muddled follow-up to Proof of Collusion alleges a "Red Sea Conspiracy" hatched in 2015 by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates and then Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. Their plan, according to Abramson, was to illicitly help Donald Trump's presidential campaign in order to gain his support for a "grand bargain" that would end U.S. sanctions on Russia in exchange for Vladimir Putin's help in evicting Iran from Syria, pave the way for dozens of new Saudi and Emirati nuclear plants, and forge an anti-Iranian, pro-Israeli military alliance among Sunni Arab nations. Abramson's talk of quid-pro-quo is unconvincing since the "bargain" to end sanctions never materialized and the only specific election meddling he identifies is an unproven theory that the UAE funded pro-Trump social media operations. His disorganized, repetitive, almost unreadable narrative instead traces labyrinths of murky "ties," meetings, and business deals that add up only to nebulous insinuations. Buried beneath the avalanche of conjecture are Abramson's serious criticisms of Trump's foreign policy, including his support of the Saudi regime's brutal war in Yemen. The result is a confused proof of nothing that obscures more than it reveals. (Sept.)
Booklist Review
""Oh what a tangled web we weave ..."" might be the subtitle for this detailed, sometimes obscure, and, yes, tangled look at the corruption Abramson finds as he tries to put Donald Trump's foreign-policy efforts into an understandable package. He begins with secret meetings in 2015 that he dubs ""The Red Sea Conspiracy"" meetings that involved the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, among others. Their plan? To form a coalition that was pro-oil, anti-Iran, and supportive of Israel and in need of a compliant U.S. president; hence, the need to help Donald Trump get elected. With plenty of quid pro quo available, Trump, Abramson argues, eagerly stepped into the role the conspirators envisioned for him. Oh, and Russia is ever present as the plan comes together. Abramson calls his work ""curatorial journalism"": he does not do his own investigative reporting but, rather, pulls together material from other sources. This leads to hundreds of pages of notes, too many to put in the book; the notes appear, instead, on a website, which makes it inconvenient for readers trying to track the narrative. Even those who like to get into the weeds at Trump World will find this weighty tome rough going at times, but, there is much to ponder here and many will want to do just that.--Ilene Cooper Copyright 2019 Booklist
Table of Contents
| Author's Note on Endnotes, Prefatory Material, and Names | p. ix |
| Introduction: The Red Sea Conspiracy and the Grand Bargain | p. 1 |
| Chapter 1 The Pedophile, the Mercenary, and the Flack | p. 22 |
| Chapter 2 The Iran Nuclear Deal, the Center for the National Interest, and the Valdai Discussion Club | p. 61 |
| Chapter 3 The Young Prince, Israeli Spies, the NRA Junket, and the Flynn Intel Group | p. 85 |
| Chapter 4 The Emirati Ambassador, the Mayflower Hotel, and Project Rome | p. 167 |
| Chapter 5 The Grand Havana Room, the Trump-Nader Meeting, and the Middle East Marshall Plan | p. 207 |
| Chapter 6 CSMARC, the Incognito Prince, the Seychelles, and the Chairman's Dinner | p. 260 |
| Chapter 7 The Gang of Six, WhatsApp, and the Qatar Blockade | p. 314 |
| Chapter 8 Tel Aviv, the Purge, the Chairman, and the Spy Army | p. 354 |
| Chapter 9 1MDB, MESA, the Saudi Quartet, the Trump Doctrine, and the Death of Jamal Khashoggi | p. 408 |
| Chapter 10 The Syria Withdrawal, the Yemeni Civil War, Secret Summits, and the Saudi Nuclear Deal | p. 465 |
| Chapter 11 The Mueller Report | p. 527 |
| Epilogue: The Point of Return | p. 544 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 567 |
| Index | p. 571 |