

By the time she offered her brave testimony in the first impeachment inquiry of President Trump, Hill knew that the desperation of forgotten people was driving American politics over the brink-and that we were running out of time to save ourselves from Russia’s fate. But in the heartlands of both Russia and the United States, she saw troubling reflections of her hometown and similar populist impulses. She studied in Moscow and at Harvard, became an American citizen, and served three U.S. The coal-miner’s daughter managed to go further than he ever could have dreamed. Her father urged her to get out of their blighted corner of northern England: “There is nothing for you here, pet,” he said. The last of the local mines had closed, businesses were shuttering, and despair was etched in the faces around her.


Timothy Snyder, New York Times best-selling author of On Tyrannyįiona Hill grew up in a world of terminal decay. "As a memoir this is hard to put down if you are seeking a better American future you should pick it up.” INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A celebrated foreign policy expert and key impeachment witness reveals how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path of modern Russia-and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places. Gosar maintained Trump's tweets about Muslims and a Muslim travel ban, used against him in court after the president created a travel ban targeting only primarily Muslim countries, meant Strzok's texts were also fair game.“Of every book written by anybody associated with the Trump administration, in any way, is absolutely the one to read.”

Republican Representative Paul Gosar of Arizona tried to draw parallels between public tweets by Trump and private texts of political opinions by Strzok. Republican committee members appeared at times surprised that FBI agents are allowed to have opinions on politics like all other citizens. And the proposition that that is going on, that it might occur anywhere in the FBI, deeply corrodes what the FBI is in American society, the effectiveness of their mission, and it is deeply destructive." To that end, Strzok stated in defense of the FBI and the checks and balances of the United States government, The suggestion that I, in some dark chamber somewhere in the FBI would somehow cast aside all of these procedures, all of these safeguards, and somehow be able to do this, is astounding to me." It simply couldn't happen. In the theory, Strzok's involvement in the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails and early involvement in the Special Counsel's investigation into Russian election interference, makes both completely corrupt and tainted because Strzok texted his political opinions to Page.ĭespite clear evidence of ties between Russian interference and the Trump campaign, who admitted to taking meetings with Russian government operatives and lying about it, Strzok's privately expressed opinions taints the investigation.
