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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Charles Kaiser

Untouchable review: Trump as ‘lawless Houdini’ above US justice

Donald Trump during a deposition released by the New York attorney general.
Donald Trump during a deposition released by the New York attorney general. Photograph: New York attorney general's office via reuters

This book by a former federal prosecutor is subtitled “How Powerful People Get Away With It” but its overwhelming focus is Donald Trump and Merrick Garland, the most famous unindicted miscreant of modern times and the attorney general most responsible for the failure, so far, to prosecute any of his offences.

Elie Honig writes that a “staggering parade” of Trump’s henchmen have been indicted, convicted, imprisoned or all three: Michael Cohen, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Rick Gates, George Papadopoulos, Lev Parnas, Igor Fruman, Thomas Barrack, Elliott Broidy, Sam Patten, George Nader, Allen Weisselberg and – last but not least – the Trump Organization itself.

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