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“If it seems as if this book is going to pull no punches, that’s right. And it shouldn’t. Because, as the contents make clear, Trump didn’t just fail to provide for the nation in the face of a deadly pandemic, he deliberately failed. Making this the greatest crime in modern American history.” — Mark Sumner, Daily Kos
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"Jonathan Vankin adds up what has been gained from the harrowing ordeal of Donald Trump as president these past years. Vankin was a true parapolitical scholar since before Trump turned conspiracy theories into the central American spectacle. Must reading as a guidepost for where we go from here."     
--Kenn Thomas, author, 
Trumpocalypse Now: The Triumph of the Conspiracy Spectacle

"Was Donald Trump America's most incompetent president, or something even worse? Vankin makes a compelling case that the former guy's COVID response wasn't botched,
but a calculated assault against the country he led".  

-- Jeff Wise, author, The Taking of MH370
​

"Books on Donald Trump are becoming a publishing industry.  But one book is different – and possibly more important than most: Jonathan Vankin’s Close to Zero.  Vankin takes a radically new and decidedly alarming view: Trump didn’t simply blunder in enabling Covid’s hundred of thousands of deaths, he intended to cause them.  Vankin’s rigorous analysis of public records, supported by powerful, precise writing and a treasure-trove of footnotes, goes a long way in proving this mens rea and in doing so casts an unforgiving light on the conduct and ultimate legacy of this historically contentious figure."   
--Brent Filson, founder, the Filson Leadership Group, Inc.
and author of the multi-book series, The Leadership Talk
™ System.


"If you need just one book to relive some of the most stomach turning tragedies that occurred during the Trump presidency, look no further than Jonathan Vankin's  Close To Zero, the most in-depth examination yet of Trump's response, or lack thereof, to the Covid-19 virus that seemingly raged unchecked in the U.S. throughout the darkest days of 2020. Close To Zero, while certainly not for the faint hearted, or for those who just want to 'move on,' will serve as a stark reminder to future generations exactly why
​'elections have consequences.'" 

- Adam Gorightly, author Saucers, Spooks and Kooks: UFO Disinformation in the Age of Aquarius​

​CLOSE TO ZERO
How Donald Trump Fulfilled His Apocalyptic Vision
and Paid His Debt to Putin With a Devastating
Biological Warfare Attack on America
By
​Jonathan Vankin

At the start of 2020, COVID-19 was a loaded gun aimed directly at the United States.

Then Donald Trump pulled the trigger. 

​This book tells that story, of what he did and the terrible human tragedy that he caused.

The COVID-19 pandemic is already being memory-holed. It's as if they want you to forget, and just get on with "normal" life. But as journalist Jonathan Vankin argues in 
Close to Zero, if we let this trauma that killed more than 600,000 Americans just fade away, only one thing is certain. It will happen again.

One book is keeping the memory alive. Close To Zero is not only intent on making sure the pandemic doesn't just slip into the mists of history, but the book aims to change the way we talk about this momentous, and horrific calamity -- not as some kind of unfortunate accident or unavoidable twist of fate, but as an unspeakable crime committed by one man. 

Close To Zero, for the first time, tells the full story of Donald Trump's personal, biological warfare attack against the very country, the very people, he was sworn to protect -- the COVID-19 pandemic. What did Trump know and when did he know it? And more importantly -- why did he do it? Why did the purported leader of the free world have the worst pandemic response?

Vankin takes a deep dive into those questions, and emerges with some shocking answers. 

From a mysterious golf course phone call from Vladimir Putin two days before the existence of a deadly new virus was revealed to the world, through his repeated declarations that the pandemic would "disappear" when he knew exactly what the extreme dangers of the novel coronavirus were, to his final attempt to use the COVID-19 crisis to stage a coup and install himself in power indefinitely, Close To Zero builds the case against Trump, ultimately indicting him for deliberately causing a disaster
​that took more than a half-million American lives.

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