Fallout: Nuclear Bribes, Russian Spies, and the Washington Lies That Enriched the Clinton and Biden Dynasties

In 2015, a major story broke exposing Hillary Clinton's role in approving the sale of an American uranium company to the Russian state nuclear agency, Rosatom. Not only did the sale of Uranium One put twenty percent of America's domestic uranium supply under the control of Vladimir Putin, there was also evidence that the Clintons themselves had hugely profited from the deal. When presidential candidate Donald Trump made Uranium One the centerpiece of his "Crooked Hillary" attacks, the Clinton team feared its potential to damage Hillary's campaign. Their desperate need to neutralize the issue led them to launch an unprecedented investigation into the Trump campaign's purported ties to Russia. Instead of ending after the election, the investigation grew bigger, eventually leading to the firing of FBI director James Comey and the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller. When Mueller failed to find grounds for impeachment, Democrats seized on an ambiguous phone call with the Ukrainian president as a pretext to remove Trump from office. An indispensable guide to the hidden background of recent events, Fallout shows how Putin's bid for nuclear dominance produced a series of political scandals that ultimately posed one of the greatest threats to our democracy in modern American history.

John Solomon is the award-winning author of DSK: The Scandal that Brought Down Dominique Strauss-Kahn. During his quarter-century career in print and broadcast media, Solomon has covered a variety of issues, from the convicted serial killer, Jeffrey Dahmer, to an in-depth look at teachers who returned to classrooms after child molestation convictions. In 2008, Solomon joined the Washington Times as executive editor. Before joining the Times, Solomon was a national investigative correspondent at the Washington Post, where he uncovered former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani's secret security firm clients, former senator John Edwards's relationship with a controversial hedge fund, and the FBI's misuse of an anti-terrorism tool that allowed agents to gather phone and computer records of Americans without court approval.