by Tim Alberta
3. “Exit Polls 2016,” CNN, https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results/exit-polls.
4. “Transcript: Donald Trump’s Victory Speech,” New York Times, November 9, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html.
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: NOVEMBER 2016
1. Lindsey McPherson, “Ryan Re-Elected Speaker with Only 1 GOP Defection,” Roll Call, January 3, 2017, https://www.rollcall.com/politics/ryan-re-elected-Speaker-115th.
2. Gabriella Paiella, “Lena Dunham: ‘I Still Haven’t Had an Abortion, But I Wish I Had,’” The Cut, December 20, 2016, https://www.thecut.com/2016/12/lena-dunham-i-havent-had-an-abortion-but-i-wish-i-had.html.
3. “Democrats’ Platform,” New York Times, August 18, 1996, https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/18/opinion/l-democrats-platform-070246.html.
4. David Wasserman, “Senate Control Could Come Down to Whole Foods vs. Cracker Barrel,” FiveThirtyEight, October 8, 2014, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/senate-control-could-come-down-to-whole-foods-vs-cracker-barrel/.
5. Jamie Gangel and Elise Labott, “First on CNN: Trump Nixes Elliott Abrams at State,” CNN, February 10, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/elliott-abrams-trump-state-department-tillerson/index.html.
6. Max Fisher, “16 Most Hair-Raising General Mattis Quotes,” The Atlantic, July 9, 2010, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/16-most-hair-raising-general-mattis-quotes/340553/.
7. Jonathan Swan, “Exclusive: Trump Campaign CEO Wanted to Destroy Ryan,” The Hill, June 12, 2017, https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/300445-exclusive-trump-campaign-ceo-wanted-to-destroy-ryan.
8. Lisa Hagen, “Trump Compares Ryan to ‘a Fine Wine,’” The Hill, December 14, 2016, https://thehill.com/homenews/news/310307-trump-compares-ryan-to-a-fine-wine.
9. Rachael Bade and Elena Schneider, “Freedom Caucus Agitator Who Pushed Out Boehner Pleads for Ryan’s Help,” Politico, July 12, 2016.
10. Michael Wolff, “Ringside with Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots ‘an Entirely New Political Movement,’” Hollywood Reporter, December 19, 2016, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve.
11. Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, Kevin Uhrmacher, and John Muyskens, “Timeline: The Making of the Christopher Steele Trump-Russia Dossier,” Washington Post, February 6, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/politics/steele-timeline/?utm_term=.e13f4da287d7.
12. Evan Perez, Jim Sciutto, Jake Tapper, and Carl Bernstein, “Intel Chiefs Presented Trump with Claims of Russian Efforts to Compromise Him,” CNN, January 10, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/10/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-report-russia/index.html.
13. Ben Guarino, “Shaking Hands Is ‘Barbaric’: Donald Trump, the Germaphobe in Chief,” Washington Post, January 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/12/shaking-hands-is-barbaric-donald-trump-the-germaphobe-in-chief/?utm_term=.8562afcdf43e.
CHAPTER NINETEEN: JANUARY 2017
1. “The Inaugural Address,” The White House, January 20, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-inaugural-address/.
2. Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Fact-Checking President Trump’s Inaugural Address,” Washington Post, January 20, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/20/fact-checking-president-trumps-inaugural-address/?utm_term=.2fc20523c9c3.
3. “AAPC Statement on U.S. Auto Sector’s Doubling of Exports,” AAPC, February 27, 2015, http://www.americanautocouncil.org/content/aapc-statement-us-auto-sectors-doubling-exports.
4. Federica Cocco, “Most US Manufacturing Jobs Lost to Technology, Not Trade,” Financial Times, December 2, 2016, https://www.ft.com/content/dec677c0-b7e6-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62.
5. Serena Marshall, “Obama Has Deported More People than Any Other President,” ABC News, August 29, 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/obamas-deportation-policy-numbers/story?id=41715661.
6. Yashar Ali, “What George W. Bush Really Thought of Donald Trump’s Inauguration,” New York Magazine, March 29, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/what-george-w-bush-really-thought-of-trumps-inauguration.html.
7. Elias Groll, “Trump Goes to CIA to Attack Media, Lie About Crowd Size, and Suggest Stealing Iraq’s Oil,” Foreign Policy, January 21, 2017, https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/21/trump-goes-to-cia-to-attack-media-lie-about-crowd-size-and-suggest-stealing-iraqs-oil/.
8. Glenn Kessler, “Spicer Earns Four Pinocchios for False Claims on Inauguration Crowd Size,” Washington Post, January 22, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/22/spicer-earns-four-pinocchios-for-a-series-of-false-claims-on-inauguration-crowd-size/?utm_term=.61cd8cb84f74.
9. Erica Chenoweth and Jeremy Pressman, “This Is What We Learned by Counting the Women’s Marches,” Washington Post, February 7, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/02/07/this-is-what-we-learned-by-counting-the-womens-marches/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.03da22c1a2c9.
10. Lydia Saad, “Trump Sets New Low Point for Inaugural Approval Rating,” Gallup.com, January 23, 2017, https://news.gallup.com/poll/202811/trump-sets-new-low-point-inaugural-approval-rating.aspx.
11. Meridith McGraw, “A Timeline of Trump’s Immigration Executive Order and Legal Challenges,” ABC News, June 29, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-president-trumps-immigration-executive-order-legal-challenges/story?id=45332741,
12. Sean Sullivan, “Leading Republican Senators Criticize Trump’s Refugee and Travel Ban-48 Hours Later,” Washington Post, January 29, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/29/leading-republican-senators-criticize-trumps-refugee-and-travel-ban-48-hours-later/?utm_term=.37444a7077df.
13. Leif Reigstad, “Here’s Where Texas Politicians Stand on Donald Trump’s Refugee Ban,” Texas Monthly, February 2, 2017, https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-daily-post/heres-texas-politicians-stand-donald-trumps-refugee-ban/.
14. Amber Phillips, “Rand Paul, a Copy Machine and a ‘secret’ Obamacare Bill,” Washington Post, March 2, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/03/02/rand-paul-a-copy-machine-and-a-secret-obamacare-bill/?utm_term=.1e54b311fe27.
15. Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, “Trump the Dealmaker Projects Bravado, but Behind the Scenes, Faces Rare Self-Doubt,” New York Times, March 23, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/trump-health-care-bill-regrets.html.
16. Madeline Conway, “Ryan: ‘Obamacare Is the Law of the Land’ for Foreseeable Future,” Politico, March 24, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/obamacare-repeal-failed-paul-ryan-reaction-236478.
17. Matt Apuzzo, Maggie Haberman, and Matthew Rosenberg, “Trump Told Russians That Firing ‘Nut Job’ Comey Eased Pressure from Investigation,” New York Times, May 29, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html
18. Miller Greg and Greg Jaffe, “Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Foreign Minister and Ambassador,” Washington Post, May 15, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-revealed-highly-classified-information-to-russian-foreign-minister-and-ambassador/2017/05/15/530c172a-3960-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html?utm_term=.af67f15f565f.
19. Michael S. Schmidt, “Comey Memo Says Trump Asked Him to End Flynn Investigation,” New York Times, May 16, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html.
CHAPTER TWENTY: JUNE 2017
1. Stephanie Armour, “Medicaid Expansion Gains Popularity in Red States,” Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/medicaid-expansion-gains-popularity-in-red-states-1528974001.
2. Letitia Stein, “Angry over U.S. Healthcare Fail, Trump Voters Spare Him Blame,” Reuters, March 26, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-trump-supporters-idUSKBN16X005.
3. Max Siegelbaum and David Steen Martin, “In Trump Country, Voters Don’t Blame President for
the Health Care Bill Debacle,” PBS, March 28, 2017, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/trump-country-voters-dont-blame-president-health-bill-debacle.
4. Gary Langer, ABC News, July 16, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/months-record-low-trump-troubles-russia-health-care/story?id=48639490.
5. Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield, Transcript. CNN, February 18, 2016.
6. Jo Becker, Matt Apuzzo, and Adam Goldman, “Trump Team Met with Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign,” New York Times, July 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner-manafort.html.
7. Jo Becker, Matt Apuzzo, and Adam Goldman, “Trump’s Son Met with Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton,” New York Times, July 9, 2017.
8. Ryan Lizza, “Anthony Scaramucci Called Me to Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Priebus, and Steve Bannon,” New Yorker, July 27, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/anthony-scaramucci-called-me-to-unload-about-white-house-leakers-reince-priebus-and-steve-bannon.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: AUGUST 2017
1. Shawna Thomas, “Sen. Scott Says Trump’s Moral Authority Was Compromised by His Tues. Comments on Charlottesville,” Vice News, August 17, 2017, https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/j5dab3/tim-scott-trump-charlottesville-race.
2. Jamelle Bouie, “The Secret of Tim Scott’s Success? White Voters,” Slate, November 11, 2014, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/11/tim-scott-won-south-carolinas-senate-seat-the-first-black-republican-senator-elected-from-the-south-since-reconstruction.html.
3. Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades,” New York Times, October 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html.
4. Dan Balz and Scott Clement, “Poll: Trump’s Performance Lags Behind Even Tepid Public Expectations,” Washington Post, November 5, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-trumps-performance-lags-behind-even-tepid-public-expectations/2017/11/04/25d2a912-bf4d-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.b061c8826598.
5. Jugal K. Patel and Alicia Parlapiano, “The Senate’s Official Scorekeeper Says the Republican Tax Plan Would Add $1 Trillion to the Deficit,” New York Times, November 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/28/us/politics/tax-bill-deficits.html.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: JANUARY 2018
1. Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo, “Trump Lawyer Arranged $130,000 Payment for Adult-Film Star’s Silence,” Wall Street Journal, January 12, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-lawyer-arranged-130-000-payment-for-adult-film-stars-silence-1515787678.
2. Maggie Haberman, “Michael D. Cohen, Trump’s Longtime Lawyer, Says He Paid Stormy Daniels Out of His Own Pocket,” New York Times, February 14, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/us/politics/stormy-daniels-michael-cohen-trump.html.
3. Michael S., Schmidt and Adam Goldman, “‘Shaken’ Rosenstein Felt Used by White House in Comey Firing,” New York Times, June 29, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/29/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-comey-firing.html.
4. “Vice President Pence Delivers Naval Academy Commencement Address,” C-SPAN, May 26, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/video/?429079-1/vice-president-pence-delivers-naval-academy-commencement-address.
5. E. J. Montini, “Will All-Talk Jeff Flake Finally Take Action on Supreme Court Nominee?” Azcentral, August 21, 2018, https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/08/20/jeff-flake-brett-kavanaugh-supreme-court-do-something/1038948002/.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: JULY 2018
1. Eli Watkins and Clare Foran, “EPA Chief Scott Pruitt’s Long List of Controversies,” CNN, July 5, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/scott-pruitt-controversies-list/index.html.
2. Philip Bump, “A Summary of the Fruit of the Mueller Investigation, to Date,” Washington Post, July 13, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/13/a-summary-of-the-fruit-of-the-mueller-investigation-to-date/?utm_term=.09721b623365.
3. George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, July 2, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-family-country-president-trump-loyalty/story?id=56304585.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: SEPTEMBER 2018
1. Elena Schneider, “‘Something Has Actually Changed’: Women, Minorities, First-time Candidates Drive Democratic House Hopes,” Politico, September 11, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/11/white-men-democratic-house-candidates-813717.
2. Rachel Ventresca, “Clinton: ‘You Cannot Be Civil with a Political Party that Wants to Destroy What You Stand For,’” CNN, October 9, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/09/politics/hillary-clinton-civility-congress-cnntv/index.html.
3. Zach Montellaro, “O’Rourke Raises Record-Smashing $38 Million in Third Quarter,” Politico, October 12, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/12/orourke-raises-38-million-896833.
4. Jonathan Swan and Stef W. Kight, “Exclusive: Trump Targeting Birthright Citizenship with Executive Order,” Axios, October 30, 2018, https://www.axios.com/trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order-0cf4285a-16c6-48f2-a933-bd71fd72ea82.html.
5. Daniel Dale, “815 False Claims: The Staggering Scale of Donald Trump’s Pre-Midterm Dishonesty,” Toronto Star, November 15, 2018, https://www.thestar.com/news/world/analysis/2018/11/15/815-false-claims-the-staggering-scale-of-donald-trumps-pre-midterm-dishonesty.html.
6. “2018 Midterms: Exit Polling,” CNN, November 6, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/election/2018/exit-polls.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: NOVEMBER 2018
1. “Presidential Job Approval Center,” Gallup.com, https://news.gallup.com/interactives/185273/presidential-job-approval-center.aspx.
2. Kenneth P. Vogel and Katie Rogers, “Nick Ayers Is Rising Fast in Trump’s Washington: How Far Will He Go?” New York Times, November 21, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/nick-ayers-white-house.html.
3. Dexter Filkins, “James Mattis, a Warrior in Washington,” New Yorker, June 20, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/james-mattis-a-warrior-in-washington.
4. “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview with the Wall Street Journal,” Wall Street Journal, November 26, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/transcript-of-president-trumps-interview-with-the-wall-street-journal-1543272091.
5. Quinton Franklin, “I Lost My Job at Carrier After President Trump Promised to Save It,” Vox, February 6, 2018, https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/2/6/16976176/carrier-president-trump-layoffs.
6. Aaron Blake, “The GOP’s Pernicious Link Between Terrorism and the Border Wall,” Washington Post, January 4, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/04/gops-pernicious-link-between-terrorism-border-wall/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6d8fcd3488a7.
7. Danielle Kaeble and Mary Cowhig, “Correctional Populations in the United States, 2016,” Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: DECEMBER 2018
1. Charles Franklin, “New Marquette Law School Poll Finds Clinton Widening Lead over Trump in Wisconsin,” Marquette Law School Poll, August 10, 2016, https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2016/08/10/new-marquette-law-school-poll-finds/.
2. Matthew Sheffield, “Poll: A Majority of Americans Support Raising the Top Tax Rate to 70 Percent,” The Hill, January 15, 2019, https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/425422-a-majority-of-americans-support-raising-the-top-tax-rate-to-70.
3. David Wasserman, “Five Takeaways from Democrats’ House Triumph,” The Cook Political Report, November 8, 2016, https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/five-takeaways-democrats-house-triumph.
4. Aaron Rupar, “Trump’s Unfounded Tweet Stoking Fears About Muslim ‘Prayer Rugs,’ Explained,” Vox, January 18, 2019, https://www.vox.com/2019/1/18/18188476/trump-muslim-prayer-rugs-tweet-border.
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ABC News, 134, 138, 358, 374, 389, 455, 475, 520, 539, 540
ABC TV, 96, 355
Abedin, Huma, 129, 396
abortion, 9, 20, 52, 68, 70, 80, 81, 145, 196, 233, 244, 290, 326–27, 382, 404–5, 431–32, 447, 454, 597, 600
Abrams, Elliott, 407
Abrams, Stacey, 542, 547
Access Hollywood tape, 365–85, 387–88, 400, 468, 485
Adelson, Sheldon, 112
Affordable Care Act (ACA, Obamacare; 2010), 83, 88, 167, 176, 192, 195, 405, 597, 599
AHCA replacement bill, by Ryan, 431–43 (see also American Health Care Act)
AHCA replacement bill, compromise in House, 447–50
AHCA replacement bill, fails in Senate, 449–54, 471
August recess of 2013 and, 167
community rating and, 432
contraceptive coverage and, 121
defunding effort and, 169–80, 182, 230
elections of 2012 and, 122, 127
essential health benefits and, 432, 439
Freedom Caucus and, 346
GOP primaries of 2016 and, 213
individual mandate and, 142
lawsuits vs., 207, 603
Meadows letter on, 171–72
Medicaid compromises and, 218
passage of, 61–63, 67–72
Reid and Pelosi strategy on, 68–69
repeal attempts, 70, 87, 101, 169–70, 210, 431, 432–33, 435, 506
Romney and, 99
Senate “skinny” repeal and, 453–54
shutdown of 2013 and, 169–80, 182, 574
Supreme Court upholds, 121, 170
Tea Party backlash vs., 61–63
Trump and, 213, 431–33
Afghanistan War, 10, 15, 38, 187, 225
African Americans (blacks), 17, 203
Charleston church massacre and, 229, 465, 468–69
Charlottesville protests and, 465–68
criminal justice reform and, 562
elections of 2008 and, 37–38
elections of 2012 and, 137
elections of 2018 and, 549–50
Fourteenth Amendment and, 537