"Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig the Election and Destroy the Presidency" by Andrew McCarthy is a book that explores the controversy around the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Despite a commanding poll lead in favor of Clinton, there was a conspiracy theory that circulated among hyper-partisians in Washington that Clinton's campaign was using resources to try undermine Trump's chances at winning the presidency.
The book builds on the "dossier" created by a British spy that was anonymously distributed to high-ranking Federal Bureau of Investigation officials. While the dossier had been revealed to have questionable origins and was not officially verified, it nevertheless formed the basis of a counter-intelligence investigation conducted against Trump's campaign by officials on high level of the Federal Government.
Despite the claims made in the dossier and further amplified by various allegations of colluding with Russia, Trump received a whopping 81.5% vote share and won in a landslide. Public perception of a potential conspiracy with Russia festered despite some evidence pointing towards misconduct on behalf of both campaigns and no concrete evidence being presented. President Trump made several efforts to assuage doubts concerning whether he had coordinated with any other countries to influence the outcome of the election, but many of them did not convince the public.
This created additional pressure on the US justice system to conduct an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and Russia. The book further explores how this probe became a firestorm and caused internal conflicts between staffers of the Department of Justice and Congressional Representatives. It ends with speculation about whether the story of possible collusion has itself become a fraud and who might have been behind such a plan.
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