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Trial Balloon · Ep. 191: Blue Wave Update

Whitaker’s Light Book

May 23, 2020 · 2:47 pm ET · Leave a Comment

Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has a new book out, Above the Law: The Inside Story of How the Justice Department Tried to Subvert President Trump, which the HuffPost says is “light on new revelations.”

“In fact, it’s light on new material altogether. A digital copy of Whitaker’s book, published by the conservative Regnery Publishing, clocks in at 266 pages. Whitaker’s actual new material book is about 130 pages; maybe a couple more if you count the acknowledgments. The rest is padding: DOJ documents, copies of Whitaker’s speeches, and even a copy of the U.S. Constitution ‘for reader reference.’ He even toys with the classic margins trick, indenting his text when he republishes (in full!) an August 2017 anti-Mueller op-ed he wrote for CNN two months before he joined the Justice Department.”

Above the Law
The Inside Story of How the Justice Department Tried to Subvert President Trump
by Matthew Whitaker · Regnery · 2020
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