Find Me the Votes

A Hard-Charging Georgia Prosecutor, a Rogue President, and the Plot to Steal an American Election

By: Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper

Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins

Publisher's summary

From veteran award-winning investigative journalists Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman, the epic inside story of the prosecution of a president.

In Find Me the Votes, two years of immersive reporting by Isikoff and Klaidman has produced the most authoritative and dramatic account yet of a defeated president’s conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and how a local Georgia prosecutor—a daughter of the civil rights movement—decided to indict him and his allies for his desperate attempt to hold on to power. From the beginning, Fani Willis saw Donald Trump’s crimes as a voting rights case, and an attempt by the former president to deprive the citizens of Georgia of the franchise, a right for which her forebears had bled.

Isikoff and Klaidman take us deep inside both the nerve center of Trump’s effort to steal the election and the DA’s team of prosecutors as they build their case against the president. Their reporting reveals new information on the plot to criminally seize voting equipment in several states; Sidney Powell’s attempt to obtain preemptive pardons from Trump; and revelatory communications between the president and his co-conspirators. We see the prosecution take shape in Willis’s office in the face of heinous threats of violent retaliation from Trump’s supporters.

With blockbuster original reporting and exclusive access to thousands of secret documents, emails, text messages, and audio recordings, Find Me the Votes is investigative journalism at its finest. The authors also conducted exclusive interviews with key sources in the Trump conspiracy, as well as with the president’s top targets, including Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger and the Fulton County DA’s team–featuring hours of interviews with Fani Willis herself. This is riveting contemporary history, and a lasting account of the prosecution of a president who tested the rule of law as no president ever had before. Isikoff and Klaidman have written a story for the ages.

©2024 Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman (P)2024 Twelve

Conspiracy to overturn election planned well before voting began.

The book could or should become a movie. It has a fascinating plot that is frighteningly close to being successful. It has well developed characters. Finally, it answered lots of questions that many of us who follow politics closely had not been answered like why is all of this taken so long and will Trump ever be brought to trial.

He probably will unless he has a stroke or heart attack that ends his life. But, at least, he has been successfully indicted by both a special grand jury and criminal grand jury which could bring the actual charges. So even a criminal president or past president is not above the law.

A most important piece of History

This book provided me with yet another angle of Trumps attempts to break American democracy and stay in power.
It proved that sometimes even individuals like Fanny Willis, can step up to the challenge and impact the course of history, even if almost nobody head their name before

Connecting the dots!

I thank the authors for connecting the dots in the most complex case facing our country. I thank Ms Willis for having the cajones to take these conspirators to trial. You go girl!!!

The timelines

I love where this story starts and end. It didn’t try to crowd the facts because there are a lot of facts in this case that was never mentioned.

Pretty thorough

Even though Ms Willis is a democrat, a woman, black, spiritual and an attorney, the only one that make a difference is the strength of conviction to the law and seeking truth beyond all else.
You can remove the descriptors which I put deliberately because some might not be able to get past the woman and black of the forest to see the trees, In this case a formative tree, and might dismiss her because of their shortsightedness. That would be a mistake.

One might see someone like the former potus who is a rich, privileged, white man raised with others who have money but lack morals, courage, ethics and focus on their money to get them through problems of which has served the former potus well….

*[such resources which the majority
of us lack ]

right up until they get caught ….
and find themselves without enough money, and/or privileged resources to stop the flow of accountability that is staring them in the face. That accountability being the American Law.
Even though ex-potus & many others have escaped the laws clutches over and again, be careful if you get too dismissive . Your number may be right around the corner.

Truly in this new weird world of alternative facts ie lies, corrupt politicians, corrupt judges and a Supreme Court that has lost its way and allegiance to our Constitution there are still millions of us who haven’t lost our way. We still believe in the law and just as importantly our Country. I personally cannot give up the lessons I grew up with and even though it’s really hard , still have faith that eventually Truth will win out!

In fact I must believe that. For freedom we all must believe!

Badass

A thorough book highlighting a portion of the insanity brought on by deplorable characters trying to further their fake reality.

Fani Willis is a major badass and hero charging against the ever-frustrating, anti-American injustices happening throughout this country, IMO.

The power of higher learning

A David and Goliath tale. Trump will loose his head to Fani Willis or her legal strategies, if she is disqualified. She is an unnatural force of righteousness.
God is with her.

Learned a lot!

The timeline layout of the sprawling mess that has been the GA RICO case was perfect. The background for Fani's upbringing & education really shows that the characterization of her as some kind of liberal bleeding heart who's soft on crime is definitely not who she is. The authors were balanced in their presentations of missteps, bad decisions from an optics perspective, and provided a glimpse of Lin Wood that hasn't been prominent in typical reports. After hearing these accounts & seeing the accompanying police report that confirms it, I'm grateful he's no longer practicing. I can't help but think that this Georgia fiasco isn't the last we'll hear from him or several of the participants who were lucky enough to escape an indictment. Hopefully they'll make better choices henceforth. If not, I'm looking forward to the next book, gentlemen! Thanks to you & all your staff members, editors, publisher & everyone else who made this a fantastic listen!

The detail and the way the story was told

I loved it all. Enjoyed the quotes. I learned a lot! Thank you for writing the book!

Detailed

I enjoyed this book because it lasted out the details and explained background. Better than hearing this info on the news in bits and pieces.