In addition to publishing a book on Trump/Russia with a major publisher, he's a contributor on CNN and other venues, in addition to being a professor at UNH.
https://medium.com/s/story/learning-to-love-americas-most-reviled-resistance-tweeter-f95e665b1a9a
I got my hands on a review copy, and it turns out — contrary to early indications — not to be a collection of his tweets after all. Instead, Proof of Collusion: How Trump Betrayed America is a straightforward 400-plus page distillation of the available reporting on the subject to this point, culled almost entirely from published news articles and court filings, all boiling down to a simple if troubling contention: “Donald Trump and a core group of ten to twenty aides, associates and allies conspired with a hostile foreign power,” as Abramson put it, “to sell that power control over America’s foreign policy in exchange for financial reward and — eventually — covert election assistance.”
The evidence Abramson assembles is compelling, and we don’t know the half of it.
It is, as the author concedes, merely a “theory of the case” at this point. But it’s the only plausible theory, he adds, that “coordinates with all the existing evidence” and “explains decades of suspicious behavior by Donald Trump, his family, and his closest associates.”
Incredible as the story of Trump’s Russian entanglements always sounds when stated plainly, the evidence Abramson assembles is compelling, and we don’t know the half of it. Robert Mueller, presumably, knows more.
Proof of Collusion may surprise Abramson’s detractors. Written more in the style of a legal criminal complaint than a potboiler, the book is almost entirely devoid of speculative musing or all-caps melodrama. Readers will search in vain for the juicy West Wing backbiting that made airport best-sellers out of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury and Bob Woodward’s Fear. In fact, it’s not even all that entertaining — and that’s to its credit. It’s more like homework. Or more accurately, by pulling together the many strands of a dizzyingly complex story, it offers a meticulous cheat sheet to the homework we should all be doing, diligently prepared by the relentlessly ostracized dork in the front row.
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