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Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. It develops and expands on the themes of family dynamics, deviance, deception, dishonesty, and the weaponization of the law.
List of contents
Introduction: Defending Crimes, Incendiary Rhetoric, and the Big Lie
PART I
An Absence of Bipartisanism
1 Conspiracy Theories and Mediated Memes in a World of Post- Truth America
2 Scaremongering, Party Politics, and the Crisis in US Democracy
3 Oligarchy, Kleptocracy, and the Maestro of Looting
4 On the Divided House Select Committee Investigation of the Capitol Assault
PART II
Indicting Donald Trump for Vandalizing the Federal Republic
5 The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump
6 The Mar- a- Lago Classified Documents Caper
7 The People of Fulton County, Georgia v. Donald J. Trump et al.
8 Trump’s Conspiracies to Overturn the 2020 Election that Led to the January 6th Assault on the Capitol
PART III
Liberty, Justice, and American Democracy
9 American Mythology, Bipartisan Alienation, and Partisan Politics
10 Tyranny of a Minority or Tyranny of a Majority
About the author
Gregg Barak is an American criminologist, academic, and author. He is Emeritus Professor of criminology and criminal justice at Eastern Michigan University.
Summary
Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. It develops and expands on the themes of family dynamics, deviance, deception, dishonesty, and the weaponization of the law.
