The Persuasion Game

The Influence Peddlers to the Trump Administration Who Jeopardized America

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Pub Date 15 Oct 2024 | Archive Date 17 Dec 2024
Amplify Publishing Group | Amplify Publishing

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In late 2019, as Donald Trump’s impeachment investigation was underway, numerous reports of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, began to appear. While their roles as the president’s henchmen in Ukraine were closely scrutinized, their other activities drew less attention.

Chad Lewis seeks to remedy that in his first book The Persuasion Game, by providing a deep dive into the influence schemes that Giuliani, Parnas, and others ran from the very beginning of Donald Trump’s presidency. In pursuit of self-enrichment, Giuliani and Parnas clandestinely peddled foreign influence from corrupt autocrats and oligarchs that originated in Turkey, Venezuela, and Ukraine.

Using Giuliani’s connections at the Department of Justice and his proximity to the president, the two became key conduits into the Trump White House, advocating for dismissal of criminal investigations that involved corrupt foreign billionaires and promoting actions beneficial to autocrats.

Gradually, Giuliani and Parnas’s corrupt schemes spread into various chambers of the Trump administration, entangling officials at the highest positions along the way and eroding American institutions. The Persuasion Game connects the dots within that web of quid-pro-quos into a coherent story that should draw the attention of anyone concerned about the future of American democracy.

In late 2019, as Donald Trump’s impeachment investigation was underway, numerous reports of his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and his associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, began to appear. While...


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Chad Lewis uses his background in Foreign Policy to give an analysis of the Turkey, Venezuela, Giuliani and how Russia influenced the Trump campaign with the goal of toppling democracy. His history of Russian observation helped him to through research for this book using primary sources, infographics and the nuances of the Russian writing of the English language to accurately detect Russian disinformation. With this information the author gives you a narrative of events that went behind the scenes of the Trump administration. His use of critical analysis of the documents was eye opening. This is a must read if you want a detailed account behind the Russian disinformation scheme and the insurrection planning by Trump administration whose goal was to stay in power. This book ends with an integrated timeline to give a context of the major events involving the United States, Turkey, Ukraine, Russia, and Venezuela. I highly recommend this to readers interested in politics, current events and journalism.

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