Trump on Trial: The Investigation, Impeachment, Acquittal and Aftermath

The book begins in Spring of 2019, when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says she will not impeach Trump, and traces the breaking of the Ukraine story that summer, which triggers Pelosi’s decision to impeach the president. Next come the secret impeachment hearings, the public hearings presided over by Congressman Adam Schiff, the highly partisan vote to impeach, the January 2020 trial in the Senate, which is marked by a narrow vote against bringing witnesses, and then the vote for acquittal along partisan lines. An epilogue details Trump’s vindictive revenge against those whom he feels betrayed him as the country tips into the pandemic crisis and nationwide protests, all presaging a bitter, dramatic 2020 presidential election.