Liar's Kingdom
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Liar's Kingdom
From legal analyst and veteran prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, an urgent summons to tackle the scourge of political lies - and prevent a figure like Donald Trump from ever rising again.
"The 2020 election was a total FRAUD!" "I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally." "There is NO WAY Biden got 80,000,000 votes!!!" These and other lies by Donald Trump sparked a historic insurrection to topple our democracy and undermined the public's faith in elections.
The Trump administration's deceit has enabled the use of law enforcement and the military against the people, the unlawful deportation of immigrants, and the disregard of international rules meant to promote a civilised and peaceful world. Other politicians, inspired by the success of the political lie, have flooded the public square with falsehoods of their own.
As Andrew Weissmann reveals, our vulnerability to politicians' lies stems from a flaw in America's legal systemβone that can be fixed. But it will take courage, creativity, and a willingness to look beyond our borders to other countries that have already confronted this crisis.
A slim, elegant treatise, Liar's Kingdom is a playbook for stopping politicians like Trump from holding office in the futureβand for saving our democracy. We are entitled to more from our government, and this book shows how we can get it.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781035447435
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 19 May 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Headline Press
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Andrew Weissmann is an NYU Law School professor and widely respected legal analyst on MS NOW. He was a lead prosecutor in Robert S. Mueller's Special Counsel's Office, Chief of the Fraud Section in the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Director Mueller, a leader of the Enron Task Force, and started out as an organized crime prosecutor in Brooklyn. He is a co-host of MS NOW's award-winning podcast Main Justice and, before that, Prosecuting Donald Trump. He has written two New York Times bestsellers, Where Law Ends: Inside the Mueller Investigation, and, as co-author, The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents With Commentary, and also writes the Substack newsletter Behind the Headlines. He holds degrees from Princeton and Columbia Law School, was a Fulbright scholar, and teaches at NYU School of Law. He is a New Yorker through and through.
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