True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump
by Jeffrey Toobin
View on GoodreadsMueller's evidence didn't establish a criminal conspiracy with Russia. That said, Toobin reads it as documenting repeated obstruction, worse in his judgment than Nixon's or Clinton's, and his case is that Mueller's restraint let Trump escape the consequences and handed Bill Barr the chance to set the story.
Core ideas
- No interview: Mueller never compelled Trump to sit down, settled for written answers that leaned on not recalling, and lost the chance to question him about intent.
- Barr's four pages: Mueller's team declined to review Barr's summary letter before release, and his framing of the report as exoneration went largely unanswered for weeks.
- Giuliani's impeachment: Without Rudy Giuliani's ineptitude as a lawyer, the book argues, Trump would not have been impeached over Ukraine.
Published2020
Pages470
ISBN9780385536738
ReadJun 2026
