Maddow brings her intensity and intelligence into this investigative journalism. Her subject matter is the evidence of Russian tampering in the 2016 United States presidential elections. Why would powerful people in Russia want for Donald Trump to be the president of the United States? That is the question she wants to answer. She begins by examining the oil and gas industry, both in America and abroad, examining Donald Trump's publicly available history of dealings with Russia.
The political corruption of the oil and gas industry brings Maddow into a closer examination of corruption in that industry. She discovers that the industry is consistently costing the environment in even untold ways, and she sees that there is deception at the highest ranks of that industry. The ulterior motives might be connected to potential business opportunities in Russia which leads to the now-president's own involvement.
The book involves a lot of analysis of facts, a lot of research, and a lot of complicated arguments from which conclusions are derived. The signs of Russian interference were simply rumors back in the election season, but ever since the lengthy investigations conducted by the United States government have slowly shown that although Donald Trump could not be personally connected by a court to those tamperings (which might constitute treason and certainly impeachable), there was indeed Russian interference which supported his election.
