A provocative, comprehensive analysis of Vladimir Putin and Russia's master plan to destroy democracy in the age of Donald Trump. In the greatest intelligence operation in the history of the world, Donald Trump was made President of the United States with the assistance of a foreign power. For the first time, The Plot to Destroy Democracy reveals the dramatic story of how blackmail, espionage, assassination, and psychological warfare were used by Vladimir Putin and his spy agencies to steal the 2016 U.S. election--and attempted to bring about the fall of NATO, the European Union, and western democracy. It will show how Russia and its fifth column allies tried to flip the cornerstones of democracy in order to re-engineer the world political order that has kept most of the world free since 1945. Career U.S. Intelligence officer Malcolm Nance will examine how Russia has used cyber warfare, political propaganda, and manipulation of our perception of reality--and will do so again--to weaponize American news, traditional media, social media, and the workings of the internet to attack and break apart democratic institutions from within, and what we can expect to come should we fail to stop their next attack.

Section I. Cyber bears -- Shots fired -- Reporting to Moscow -- Make Russia great again -- Putin's philosophy -- A rising Russia, a failing America -- Section II. Bullets, lies, laptops, and spies -- Active measures -- Fake news -- Internet Research Agency & Russian cyber weapons -- Hail Hydra! -- The axis of autocracy -- Operation GLOBAL GRIZZLY -- Section III. America under seige...from within -- Russia's American beachhead -- The American fifth column -- A treasonous aspect -- Epilogue: "Freedom is a light"