Lee Smith is a New York Times-bestselling author with more than thirty years’ experience in journalism, covering a wide range of subjects from US foreign policy to crimes and corruption at the highest levels of the American government. A columnist for Epoch Times, Smith has written several books, including The Strong Horse: Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations, a post-9/11 political travelogue through the Middle East; The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in US History, which was made into an Academy Award-nominated documentary movie; and most recently The Permanent Coup: How Enemies Foreign and Domestic Targeted the American President.