The MeidasTouch Podcast

Let's give people health care. Let's support our troops. Let's support our allies abroad. Let's build our NATO coalition. Let's be safer home and abroad. Let's improve our education. Here's how we're going to do it. Very specific plans to the Democratic platform or The Communist Manifesto.

the book was to Melania. I dedicated it to Melania. And the reason was for that was everything I wrote about, she knows about. And she knows that I have the documentation, the communication to back it up.

the Department of Justice was scary. They sued me for the book, trying to stop it from actually being published, but they couldn't stop that.

the book was to Melania. I dedicated it to Melania. And the reason was for that was everything I wrote about, she knows about. And she knows that I have the documentation, the communication to back it up.

I've written my first book, Disloyal, about what I've seen and lived through during this whole saga.

I'm also working on my next book, The DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, which dives into the corruption of the Justice Department under Trump.

I will turn around and say that I went to prison simply because Donald Trump ensured that I went to prison. And that's again, I have a second book that's going to be coming out relatively soon called The Department of Injustice. And I give you all the facts and I lay the whole thing out. And I will let each individual reader decide for themselves. But one thing for certain, every single aspect of that book is backed up by documentation.

He basically admitted in the new This Will Not Pass book that he used Donald Trump as a vessel to get those two things.

And I really want to write a whole book on it. When Mike left the interview, I'm like the worst at keeping trade secrets. I'm like, I told Mike, I said, that should be a book that we should write together or figure out a way to write it. Because it's actually, you know, there are books that come along, you know, whether it's, you know, Francis Fukuyama's The World is Flat. You know, that talks about the interconnectivity of countries that kind of shake the landscape of how we view, you know, the international order.

My book, We the Students, has been banned in Texas public schools by the theocrats there.

We are joined by Craig Unger, who is a veteran investigative journalist, bestselling author of five books on how the GOP waged war on our democracy, including the critically acclaimed American Compromise, how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power, and treachery.

Let's go start with really your most famous, probably most prescient book right now that everyone's talking about, American Compromise.

Everybody go out and buy them. I'm sure people have it already. I might as mighty know you, Craig. But if you don't have it, you got to get it immediately. American Compromise, how the KGB cultivated Donald Trump and related tales of sex, greed, power and treachery. Go and buy that right after the interview.

He was actually the ambassador of Ukraine to Austria from 2014 to 2021 and is the author of the book Undiplomatic Thoughts, Ukraine vs. Darkness.

author of the book, Undiplomatic Thoughts, Ukraine Versus Darkness.

people have written books literally called the authoritarian playbook about how obvious through the last hundred years, especially those movements have been.

If you look at Ruth Ben God's book, which is like my Bible.

I read the Rupert Murdoch biography. The Man Who Owns the News, just wanting to get insight into, you know, and, you know, just try to learn a masochist. No, not a masochist is written by Matthew Michael Wolfe.

They broke down these books, like some of my favorite nonfiction books. For example, The 5 Second Rule, The 5 AM Club, 5 AM Club by Robin Sharma, The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins.

I also listened to the audio of the 5 a.m. club on Blinkist, which broke down the importance of waking up at 5 a.m.

I've read the 5 a.m. Club, which is one of my favorite books. I read the actual book and then I read the Blinkist and then I read the 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins.

The 5 a.m. Club by Robin Sharma, all about waking up earlier, starting your day by working out, by reading something new, and starting that motivational day with that early boost. I read that on Blinkist.

Brian Karam... has a new book out, Free the Press, The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It, which is out now anywhere. Books are sold.

But Brian, now that you're promoting this book, it's a bestseller. I love this book.

Reading your book, Free the Press, I think the story that you told when you drew the through line from Nixon to Reagan to Fox News, I didn't really know about. That's something a lot of people didn't know.

Brian, your book is called Free the Press, The Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It.

Brian's new book, Free the Press, the Death of American Journalism and How to Revive It is out now anywhere. Books are sold.

Huma Abedin is now the best-selling author of the book, Both End, A Life in Many Worlds, a memoir about her own experiences from her childhood in Saudi Arabia, interning for then First Lady Hillary Clinton, being a senior advisor to Senator Clinton, a deputy chief of staff in the U.S. Department of State, to then Secretary of State Clinton, Vice Chair of Hillary for America in 2016.

Welcome back to the Midas Touch podcast. We are joined by a very special guest, Huma Abedin, now a best-selling author of the book Both End, A Life in Many Worlds. You need to buy this book immediately.

Make sure you buy the book, both end a life in many worlds. Again, both end a life in many worlds. Make sure you buy the book, both end a life in many worlds.

And it was, I credit Robert J. Lifton, who wrote the seminal book called Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, which came out in 1961.

Ann Nelson wrote a book called Shadow Network about the Council for National Policy.