The Memo: Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First

by Rich Higgins

After three short months in 2017 serving on the National Security Council under President's Trump National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, Rich was fired for telling the truth. He sounded the alarm on the Deep State coup to remove President Trump and of the subversives within the ranks. Rich set it all down in his famous memo - POTUS and Political Warfare. And for this, he paid for it with his job. At the time, Rich was labeled as a "conspiracy theorist" but as events played out over the following three years, Rich has been fully vindicated. The Memo is the riveting story of how Rich Higgins' twenty year career fighting for America First within the bowels of the DoD and Pentagon bureaucracy enabled him to discern - well before anyone else - the Deep State's efforts to stop and ultimately remove the President from office. No one was more bold - or more frighteningly accurate - in anticipating the ferocity of the Deep State's assault on the Constitution and President Trump.

216 pages, Hardcover

Published September 29, 2020

Reviews

[Cathy Kildall · Rating 5 out of 5]

A MUST READ FOR ALL AMERICANS

Rich Higgins is an American hero.
This book is an eye-opener.
We need more people like Rich Higgins in this world. He is the epitome of the word "brave." If only more people would stand up & defend what they know is right, we would not be in the horrible mess we are currently in.
There is no end to the depths these evil people will resort to in their efforts to destroy this country. It is a bottomless pit. And look how it has gone into complete overdrive since the STEAL of the 2020 election. I pray every day that God will protect this beautiful country. But until there are many more Rich Higgins in this world, people who are willing to sacrifice their personal comfy positions & do what is right, I fear we may be screwed. It's really hard to imagine there is so much corruption & evil in the souls of people. I said to someone once "I would rather have a president who is a womanizer than one who is a communist." The look of confusion on the face of the person that statement was directed at, said it all. And btw, I do not believe Trump is a womanizer, any more than any other wealthy man. There are many things that are much worse than a womanizer, & we are seeing it in real time.
We love you Rich Higgins. Thank you for the sacrifices you made for this country. I'm going to buy multiple copies of this book in support if his family & give them to the people in my life that have severe cases of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" caused by watching MSM. Yes I recommend this book.

[E W · Rating 4 out of 5]

Higgins writing about his early experiences within the confines of the Deep State were the best part of the book. I would have liked to seen more of what he was doing after his time at National Defense University, but I get why it's not there. Ironically, I think the book hangs up a bit once getting to the 2017 timeframe and the troubles surrounding the Trump administration staffing. Not just because Higgins was done dirty, but because while he identifies the problem, he offers no solution. Maybe there isn't one, but at least I would have appreciated a conclusion rather than a book that feels weirdly out of date already and that just kind of stops.

[Jennifer MacKay · Rating 5 out of 5]

Globalism explained

Excellent easy read into the workings of the Deep State of America and without telling us,why the current Pandemic is the world's biggest con,it's Globalisation people,time to WAKE UP

[Joe Mullin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Detailed revelations of the attempted coup

Americans have been lied to and manipulated by the alphabet agencies and main stream media. They are guilty of subversion and treason. Rich Higgins has given us the details and named those guilty. Bring back the gallows. RIP, brother.

[Jerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve been reading a few books like this lately: books written by inexperienced authors who nevertheless lived through experiences worth writing about. Unlike some, this is dense and concise. Higgins doesn’t ramble aimlessly, probably due to his professional experience advising other people. He’s made his living writing memos, and, in a sense, this book is a long memo to the American people.

So much has changed even since 2020 that the memo itself is pretty tame by today’s standards. It doesn’t say anything that even its targets haven’t since acknowledged. Trump represents the End of Democracy, and any means necessary to prevent his election or remove him from office are not merely justified but virtuous. You can see this in the responses of people like Chris Christie in the latest Republican debates, in the unprecedented twisted legal interpretations by prosecutors like Jack Smith, and in the never-imagined constitutional interpretations of politicians such as in Colorado and Maine. That some people think democracy must be destroyed to save it is no longer controversial, it’s mainstream thinking in the beltway.

Higgins divides his experiences into basically three parts. The first part is how his day-two experiences at the World Trade Center rubble led to his experiences in Iraq and learning to deal with IEDs and other forms of asymmetric warfare.

My bosses at the Justice Department thought we might have something to contribute to what everyone was hoping was a rescue effort… When we got to Manhattan and the scene of the bombing we knew pretty quickly that it was a lost cause. Just hopeless.

…

A 100-foot pile of rubble where the World Trade Center had stood. There were papers sort of floating in the wind, memos and documents from people’s offices. Pulverized concrete covered everything. The leaves had been blown off all the trees in the area and there were blinds from what had been office windows hanging on the branches of those trees where the leaves had been.

The second part is his recognition, with the help of other members of federal law enforcement, that Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are deep enough into American policy, foreign and domestic, that we are paralyzed about responding to real terrorist threats, such as Nidal Hasan’s attack on Fort Hood.

Outreach organizations such as CAIR are tied to the Muslim Brotherhood, he writes; while this may have been controversial when he wrote it, it doesn’t appear to be now.

In fact, the DoD’s entire Muslim chaplain corps was established by a top al-Qaeda fundraiser who was ultimately sentenced to 23 years in jail.

He does not name the fundraiser, but this is likely Abdul Rahman Al-Amoudi. He does name Anwar Al-Awlaki who really had “attended lunches in the Pentagon’s Navy dining facility”.

The third, and most interesting, part of the book is the period, after drawing attention to the above, he was forced to leave government employ and began a career of briefing politicians and businessmen doing business in the middle east on IEDs and on terrorism in general. This led to his becoming involved with Donald Trump during his campaign.

His description of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland is not nearly as rambling as Hunter S. Thompson’s similar description of the Democrat’s 1972 convention in Miami but it is as compelling.

While the copy I have was published in 2023, the book appears to have been written before the 2020 election. Higgins himself apparently died in 2021.

[Peter Corrigan · Rating 4 out of 5]

As another reviewer noted 'The Memo' is essentially a memo to the American people and it is one well worth reading even at this remove. The reader learns in chapter one that Mr.Higgins was fired from the National Security Council in May 2017 by the then head of the NSC, H.R. McMaster for the transgression of writing and disseminating a memo about the power and influence of the Deep State and its intent to remove the POTUS at the time. The book provides a very concise (well, it is a book) summary of his thesis, starting with service at the 9/11 site, then in Iraq as an IED expert and later jobs in Washington within what he calls the Deep State, others call the Blob. Of course left-wing partisans and mainstream media have long resolutely refused to even acknowledge the existence of such an entity. Which must stand as one of the greatest acts of self-delusion (or just plain dishonesty) perpetrated on the American people since, well Islam is a 'Religion of Peace'. And Higgins has plenty to say about that too, all through bitter personal experience in Iraq and the U.S military (see Fort Hood, Chattanooga and other crimes) and his own substantial research into the nature of Islam. A valid criticism may be that the book lacks references but typically a memo would not need them. Nearly all of what he says is either incontrovertible, easily checked or simply his own experience.

This book is a fascinating yet highly disturbing account, but recommended to anyone who wants to gain a better understanding the events of 2016-2017 when the Deep State itself attempted a coup on the duly elected President of the United States. Do not think for a second that another effort is not in the works. Hence, reading 'The Memo' thus provides much better insight into the early operations of Trump 2.0, as the President seeks to avoid the disaster caused by the retention of huge numbers of Deep State 'resistors' the first time around.

I was given a copy of thjs book and Rich Higgins was unknown to me. The book was published in 2020 by a very small house, the Calamo Press. Rest assured that Random House, Harcourt and the rest of the 'big boys' would never publish anything like it. Go to B&N and scan the 'current politics' selections--swimming in anti-Trump tomes, all written by Deep State insiders or the 'reporter' cabal (WaPo, NYT, Politico, etc.) that take Blob leaks, churn out 'news' and then 'brave' journalistic exposes and books, followed by Pulitzer prizes. All of it designed to perpetuate the 'narrative' that Higgins demolishes repeatedly.

Sadly, after finishing the book I learned that Rich Higgins passed away in Feb. 2022 at the very young age of 47 but his book remains a courageous and important statement. I recommend the following webpage after reading the book for some well-earned tributes to this brave man--https://unconstrainedanalytics.org/re.... I would rate the content at 5 stars but the brevity and lack of references more like 3.5 stars (it is a Memo after all!) for a solid overall 4 rating.

[Karan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and he makes a compelling case. There was too much self-aggrandizement.

[Joel Ludwig · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read

This is a great background of what the deep state has been doing for the last several years. The fight goes on.

[CB Luce · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Memo Book review

This book confirms my suspicions of the corrupt, convert Washington politicians on both sides of the aisle, Republicans and Democrats.

[imareader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Succinct and timely.

It was a quick read and it organized well much of the information that I have come to believe over the past several years.

[Clare Dinnocenti · Rating 5 out of 5]

outstanding and frightening

A short book but filled with knowledge about government that EVERY American needs to know. You will be glad you read it.