Masters of Corruption
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Masters of Corruption

How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Masters of Corruption

How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency

About this book

An inside perspective of the federal bureaucracy, with personal intrigue and prescriptions for future administrations.

"In the United States you can elect any president you want, but a small group of people you've never heard of still run everything — year after year, administration after administration. That's not democracy. It's oligarchy, and Mark Moyar explains exactly how it works."

— Tucker Carlson

This book tells a remarkable true story of bureaucratic assassination during the Trump presidency, revealing in vivid detail how career federal employees thwarted President Trump's efforts to drain the swamp.

Mark Moyar, a senior political appointee at the US Agency for International Development, discovered evidence of corruption involving five career bureaucrats and reported it to agency officials in 2018. Senior bureaucrats orchestrated a sophisticated retaliatory plot, which began when a Special Operations general fraudulently accused Moyar of divulging classified information, and ended with the termination of Moyar's employment.

The bureau that Moyar had been on track to lead, with an annual budget exceeding $300 million, fell into the hands of one of his bureaucratic assassins. The leading perpetrator of the corruption exposed by Moyar subsequently escaped punishment by transferring to another federal agency.

A multi-agency cover-up followed. Moyar sought help from three Offices of the Inspector General—the government's main bulwarks against whistleblower retaliation—but all three conducted flimsy investigations that absolved the bureaucracy. When Senator Charles Grassley demanded that agency officials fill the gaps in the government's story, he was met with lies and evasions.

This suspense-filled drama provides an insider's view of the federal bureaucracy's corruption, its weaponization of bureaucratic procedures, and its failures to protect employees from retaliation. In telling his story, Moyar reveals how future administrations can drain the swamp and draws a roadmap for the restoration of integrity to the United States government.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Author’s Introduction
  7. Prologue
  8. Chapter 1 | Foundations
  9. Chapter 2 | Crumbling Towers of Ivory
  10. Chapter 3 | The Military
  11. Chapter 4 | Subversion of the First Amendment by Unelected Bureaucrats
  12. Chapter 5 | The Election of Donald Trump
  13. Chapter 6 | The Trump Administration Is Formed
  14. Chapter 7 | Wading into the Swamp
  15. Chapter 8 | Career Bureaucrats
  16. Chapter 9 | Trump Appointees in the Administrative State
  17. Chapter 10 | Fixing a Broken Organization
  18. Chapter 11 | Beyond the Washington Bubble
  19. Chapter 12 | Tribal Warfare
  20. Chapter 13 | The Bureaucracy Strikes Back
  21. Chapter 14 | Administrative Leave
  22. Chapter 15 | Justice in the Administrative State
  23. Chapter 16 | Aftershocks
  24. Chapter 17 | Out on the Streets
  25. Chapter 18 | Dereliction of Duty in the Office of Inspector General
  26. Chapter 19 | Going Outside
  27. Chapter 20 | The Inspector General Reports Again
  28. Chapter 21 | The Department of Defense Inspector General
  29. Chapter 22 | Twilight of the Trump Administration
  30. Chapter 23 | The Worst Day
  31. Chapter 24 | False Dawn
  32. Chapter 25 | Lying to Congress
  33. Chapter 26 | To the Pentagon
  34. Chapter 27 | Star Power
  35. Chapter 28 | Ignoring Orders and Breaking Rules
  36. Chapter 29 | Wheels of Justice
  37. Chapter 30 | The Future
  38. Acknowledgments
  39. Index