THE UNMAKING OF THE PRESIDENT 2016

A longtime Washington insider argues that there was one determining factor that threw the election to Donald Trump: FBI Director James Comey’s October 28th letter to Congress, sent during the crucial eleven days before election day on November 8, 2016.

In The Unmaking of the President, longtime Washington insider Lanny J. Davis sets out to prove with hard data that FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress on October 24, 2016 caused Hillary Clinton's defeat during the last ten days of the 2016 election. Davis traces Clinton's email controversy and Comey's July 2016 appearance before congress in which he said that Clinton had displayed poor judgment but the matter was not going to be further investigated by the Justice Department. From that moment until Comey's late October declaration, Davis says, there were irregularitiesthat raise questions about his decision to inform Congress in October of the discovery of more emails. Davis will show state by state, using polls data before October 24th and on election day, how voter support for Hillary Clinton eroded quickly.


Lanny J. Davis is a lawyer, crisis manager, consultant, author, and television commentator who counsels individuals, corporations, and others under scrutiny on crisis management and legal issues with developing legal, media and governmental strategies that are designed to best produce successful results for his clients. His former clients haveincluded CEOs, world leaders, and both national and international companies.During the Clinton administration, Lanny served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign finance investigations and other legal issues. In 2005 President George W. Bush appointed Lanny to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, created by the U.S. Congress as part of the 2005 Intelligence Reform Act.He graduated from Yale Law School, where he won the prestigious Thurman Arnold Moot Court prize and served on The Yale Law Journal.