by David Frum
46. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, June 29, 2017, 8:52 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/880408582310776832.
47. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, June 29, 2017, 8:58 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/880410114456465411.
48. Christian Holub, “White House Defends Trump Tweets: He ‘Fights Fire with Fire,’” EW.com, June 29, 2017, http://ew.com/tv/2017/06/29/donald-trump-white-house-mika-brzezinski/.
49. Rush Limbaugh Show, June 13, 2017, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/06/13/a-deep-dive-into-shakespeare-in-the-park-madness/.
50. Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, No. 68, March 14, 1788, in The Federalist (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1998), 509.
Chapter 3: Appeasers
1. Michael Barbaro, “Jeb Bush’s Image Gives G.O.P. Something to Think About Before 2016,” New York Times, May 25, 2014, A19, https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/us/politics/jeb-bush-gives-party-something-to-think-about.html.
2. Ibid.
3. “Greatest Century | Jeb Bush,” YouTube video, 1:04, posted by “Jeb Bush,” June 15, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vet1HHyYtZQr.
4. Only 3 percent of the donations to Jeb Bush’s presidential fund arrived in increments of $200 or less. More than one-quarter of the $103 million collected by Jeb Bush’s super PAC arrived in gifts of $1 million or more.
5. Alexandra Jaffe, “CNN/ORC Poll: Bush Surges to 2016 GOP Frontrunner,” CNN.com, December 28, 2014, http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/28/politics/bush-leads-gop-field-poll/index.html.
6. Donald Trump, presidential campaign announcement, New York, NY, June 16, 2015. See “Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 47:08, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 16, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM.
7. Ryan Struyk, “Ben Carson Falls from Frontrunner Status in a New National Poll,” ABC News, December 2, 2015, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ben-carson-falls-frontrunner-status-national-poll/story?id=35521989.
8. Charles Krauthammer, “The Way Forward,” Washington Post, November 9, 2012, A29.
9. Benjamin Hart, “Sean Hannity Flips on Immigration Reform, Now Supports Pathway to Citizenship,” Huffington Post, November 8, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/08/sean-hannity-immigration-pathway-to-citizenship_n_2096255.html.
10. Rupert Murdoch, Twitter, November 7, 2012, 4:55 p.m., https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/266343060265377794.
11. Alicia Mundy, “Sheldon Adelson: ‘I’m Basically a Social Liberal,’” Washington Wire (blog), Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2012, https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/12/05/sheldon-adelson-im-basically-a-social-liberal/.
12. Chris Cillizza, “Three Sentences on Immigration That Will Haunt Republicans in 2016,” Washington Post, July 1, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/07/01/three-sentences-on-immigration-that-will-haunt-republicans-in-2016/, citing Republican National Committee, “Growth and Opportunity Project,” https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/623664/republican-national-committees-growth-and.pdf.
13. Donald Trump, presidential campaign announcement, New York, June 16, 2015. See “Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 47:08, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 16, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM.
14. Ronald Brownstein, “How Obama Won: Marrying Old and New Democratic Coalitions,” Atlantic, November 7, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/how-obama-won-marrying-old-and-new-democratic-coalitions/264884/. Brownstein did not explicitly include the latter three groups in the coalition, but any definition of the “ascendant” in 2010s America must include them.
15. David Brady and Douglas Rivers, “Decoding Trump’s Supporters,” Defining Ideas, September 15, 2015, http://www.hoover.org/research/decoding-trumps-supporters.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. “Trump Supporters Think Obama Is a Muslim Born in Another Country,” Public Policy Polling, September 1, 2015, http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/08/trump-supporters-think-obama-is-a-muslim-born-in-another-country.html.
19. Ibid.
20. Donald Trump, presidential campaign announcement, New York, NY, June 16, 2015. See “Donald Trump Presidential Campaign Announcement Full Speech (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 47:08, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 16, 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apjNfkysjbM.
21. Republican primary debate, Cleveland, OH, televised by Fox News Network, August 6, 2015. See “First Republican Primary Debate—Main Stage—August 6 2015 on Fox News,” YouTube video, 1:55:17, posted by “2016 US Presidential Debates,” April 15, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rU4W3yfd58.
22. Robert Costa, Philip Rucker, and Dan Balz, “Donald Trump Plots His Second Act,” Washington Post, October 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-plots-his-second-act/2015/10/06/305790c2-6c68-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html.
23. Javier de Diego, “Despite Having D.C.’s Toughest Job, RNC Chair Priebus Doesn’t Want Pity,” CNN.com, April 20, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/20/politics/reince-priebus-republican-national-committee/index.html.
24. Drew Griffin, Marshall Cohen, and Scott Zamost, “Trump Paid $12.5 Million to His Own Businesses during Race,” CNN.com, December 16, 2016, http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/16/news/companies/donald-trump-campaign-fec/index.html.
25. Christine Wang, “Trump Says Billionaire, Former Critic Paul Singer Visited White House,” CNBC.com, February 16, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/16/trump-says-billionaire-former-critic-paul-singer-visited-white-house.html.
26. Nicholas Fandos, “Corporations Open Spigot to Bankroll Inauguration,” New York Times, January 16, 2017, A12, http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/15/us/politics/trump-inauguration-donations-corporations.html; Fredreka Schouten, “What’s Happened to Trump’s Leftover Inaugural Money? Six Months Later, We Don’t Know,” USA Today, July 20, 2017, modified July 22, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/20/what-happened-president-trumps-leftover-inaugural-money-six-months-later-we-dont-know/493397001/.
27. David Wright, Tal Kopan, and Julia Manchester, “Cruz Unloads with Epic Takedown of ‘Pathological Liar,’ ‘Narcissist’ Donald Trump,” CNN.com, May 3, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/03/politics/donald-trump-rafael-cruz-indiana/index.html.
28. Ted Cruz, Facebook, September 23, 2016, 12:24 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/posts/10154476728267464.
29. Will Jordan, Twitter, October 19, 2016, 10:24 a.m., https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/788792988503769088.
30. Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg, “Inside the Trump Bunker, with Days to Go,” Bloomberg Businessweek, October 27, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go.
31. Mark Levin Show, April 5, 2016. See Josh Feldman, “Mark Levin Rips #NeverTrump ‘Buffoons’: You Would ‘Passively’ Help Hillary Win?,” Mediaite, April 6, 2016, https://www.mediaite.com/online/mark-levin-rips-nevertrump-buffoons-you-would-passively-help-hillary-win/.
32. CNN Tonight, CNN, August 7, 2015.
33. Sam Reisman, “Fox News Responds to Trump’s Latest ‘Twitter Poll’ with First-Rate Trolling,” Mediaite, January 26, 2016, http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-responds-to-trumps-latest-twitter-poll-with-first-rate-trolling/.
34. Sam Reisman, “Trump Attacks Megyn Kelly Again: Nobody Knew Her Before the Debate,” Mediaite, January 25, 2016, http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-attacks-megyn-kelly-again-nobody-knew-her-before-the-debate/.
35. Sam Reisman, “Fox Responds to Trump’s Latest Attack on Megyn Kelly: Trump Is Showing a Lot of Fear,” Mediaite, January 25, 2016, https://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-responds-to-trumps-latest-attack-on-megyn-kelly-trump-is-showing-a-lot-of-fear/.
36. David A. Fahrenthold, “Trump Announced His Gifts to Veterans. Here’s What We Learned,” Washington Post, May 30, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/05/30/tomorrow-trump-will-give-more-detai
ls-about-his-donations-to-vets-heres-what-we-still-dont-know/.
37. The Kelly File, Fox News Network, October 25, 2016.
38. Chris Spargo, “Megyn Kelly Says Trump Aide Dan Scavino Is Responsible for Inciting Violent Threats against Her—and That She and Her Kids Have Needed Armed Guards to Protect Them for 16 Months,” Daily Mail, December 8, 2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4014680/Megyn-Kelly-says-Trump-aide-Dan-Scavino-responsible-inciting-violent-threats-against-kids-needed-armed-guards-protect-16-months.html.
39. Dan Gunderman, “Sean Hannity Brings up Seth Rich Again, Alludes to DNC Emails and Suspicious Murder,” New York Daily News, June 23, 2017, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sean-hannity-brings-seth-rich-alludes-dnc-emails-article-1.3272124.
40. Fox News Sunday, Fox News Network, June 25, 2017.
41. Kellyanne Conway, interview by Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, NBC, January 22, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/conway-press-secretary-gave-alternative-facts-860142147643.
42. Chris Ariens, “MSNBC Wins Its First Week Ever in Prime Time,” Ad Week, May 22, 2017, http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/for-1st-time-in-17-years-fox-news-was-3rd-in-prime-time-demo/329902.
43. David E. Bernstein, Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law (New York: Encounter, 2015).
44. Kurt Schlichter, Twitter, August 25, 2017, 6:43 p.m., https://twitter.com/KurtSchlichter/status/901258810966200320.
Chapter 4: Plunder
1. Transparency International, “Corruption Perceptions Index 2016,” January 25, 2017, https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016.
2. Peter Applebome, “Gingrich Gives Up $4 Million Advance on His Book Deal,” New York Times, December 31, 1994, A01, http://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/31/us/gingrich-gives-up-4-million-advance-on-his-book-deal.html.
3. Brian Montopoli, “Daschle Withdraws HHS Nomination,” CBS News, February 3, 2009, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/daschle-withdraws-hhs-nomination/.
4. Carol D. Leonning, Tom Hamburger, Rosalind S. Helderman,“Trump’s Business Sought Deal on a Moscow Trump Tower during Campaign,” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/politics/trumps-business-sought-deal-on-a-moscow-trump-tower-during-campaign/2017/08/27/595964f6-8ba0-11e7-9c53-6a169beb0953_video.html.
5. Dan Merica, “Trump on Pace to Surpass 8 Years of Obama’s Travel Spending in 1 Year,” CNN.com, April 11, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/10/politics/donald-trump-obama-travel-costs/index.html.
6. Nicholas Fandos, “Budget Deal Allots $120 Million More for First Family’s Security,” New York Times, May 2, 2017, A18, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/secret-service-trump-protection.html.
7. Kevin Johnson, “Exclusive: Secret Service Depletes Funds to Pay Agents Because of Trump’s Frequent Travel, Large Family,” USA Today, August 21, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/21/secret-service-cant-pay-agents-because-trumps-frequent-travel-large-family/529075001/.
8. Laura Strickler, Analisa Novak, and Julianna Goldman, “Trump Kids’ Ski Vacation Incurs over $300,000 in Security Costs,” CBS News, September 29, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-kids-ski-vacation-incurs-over-300000-in-security-costs/.
9. “Exclusive: Like Mother Like Daughter! Tiffany Trump and Marla Maples Flaunt Their Enviable Figures in Bikinis as They Soak up the Italian Sunshine aboard a Luxury Yacht,” Daily Mail, July 16, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4701466/Tiffany-Trump-Marla-Maples-aboard-luxury-yacht.html.
10. Jonathan O’Connell, “Trump D.C. Hotel Turns $2 Million Profit in Four Months,” Washington Post, August 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-dc-hotel-turns-2-million-profit-in-four-months/2017/08/10/23bd97f0-7e02-11e7-9d08-b79f191668ed_story.html.
11. “Schedule B for ALL Line #’s—Candidate & Committee Viewer,” Committee: REBUILDING AMERICA NOW, Federal Election Commission, accessed September 28, 2017, http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00618876/1177312/sb/ALL.
12. Alexandra Berzon, “Trump Hotel in Washington Saw Strong Profit in First Four Months of 2017,” Wall Street Journal, August 11, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-hotel-in-washington-saw-strong-profit-in-first-four-months-of-2017-1502424589.
13. Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy, “Republican Committees Have Paid Nearly $1.3 Million to Trump-Owned Entities This Year,” Washington Post, August 21, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/21/republican-committees-have-spent-nearly-1-3-million-at-trump-owned-properties-this-year/.
14. Robert Frank, “Mar-a-Lago Membership Fee Doubles to $200,000,” CNBC.com, January 25, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/25/mar-a-lago-membership-fee-doubles-to-200000.html.
15. Ashley Feinberg, “Trump’s 2020 Campaign Has Already Paid Out $600K—to Trump,” Wired, July 20, 2017, https://www.wired.com/story/trump-2020-campaign-money/.
16. Paul Sonne, “U.S. Military’s Space in Trump Tower Costs $130,000 a Month,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-militarys-space-in-trump-tower-costs-130-000-a-month-1500428508.
17. Steve Eder and Jennifer Medina, “Settlement Is Approved in Trump University Suit,” New York Times, April 1, 2017, A16, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/31/us/trump-university-settlement.html.
18. This account is based on the superb reporting of Bloomberg News. See Caleb Melby and David Kocieniewski, “Inside the Troubled Kushner Tower: Empty Offices and Mounting Debt,” Bloomberg News, March 22, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-22/kushners-troubled-tower-debt-empty-offices-and-rising-fees.
19. Susanne Craig, Jo Becker, and Jesse Drucker, “A Second Empire by Trump’s Side,” New York Times, January 8, 2017, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/us/politics/jared-kushner-trump-business.html.
20. Emily Rauhala and William Wan, “In a Beijing Ballroom, Kushner Family Pushes $500,000 ‘Investor Visa’ to Wealthy Chinese,” Washington Post, May 6, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/in-a-beijing-ballroom-kushner-family-flogs-500000-investor-visa-to-wealthy-chinese/2017/05/06/cf711e53-eb49-4f9a-8dea-3cd836fcf287_story.html.
21. Ned Parker and Jonathan Landay, “Exclusive: Trump Son-in-Law Had Undisclosed Contacts with Russian Envoy—Sources,” Reuters, May 26, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018.
22. A helpful summary (with links) of the Spanish-language reporting on the conversations between Trump and Macri can be found here: https://thinkprogress.org/there-is-a-lot-more-to-the-trump-argentina-story-e4a5026a959c.
23. Kailash Babar, “Donald Trump Meets Indian Partners, Hails PM Modi’s Work,” Economic Times (Mumbai), November 17, 2016, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/donald-trump-meets-indian-partners-hails-pm-modis-work/articleshow/55465060.cms.
24. Tara John, “Ivanka Trump Had Business at Stake When She Met Japan’s Prime Minister,” Fortune, December 5, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/12/05/ivanka-trump-donald-trump-japan-shinzo-abe/.
25. Rachel Abrams, “Trump Brand Scuttles Deal Over Firm’s Official Links,” New York Times, June 13, 2017, B3, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/business/ivanka-trump-brand-japanese-business-deal.html.
26. Jana Winter and Elias Groll, “Here’s the Memo That Blew Up the NSC,” Foreign Policy, August 10, 2017, http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/10/heres-the-memo-that-blew-up-the-nsc/.
27. Michael Sullivan, “Who’s the New Philippine Envoy? The Man Building Trump Tower Manila,” NPR, November 22, 2016, http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/11/22/502895797/whos-the-new-philippine-envoy-the-man-building-trump-tower-manila.
28. “Transcript of Call between President Trump and Philippine President Duterte,” Washington Post, http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/transcript-of-call-between-president-trump-and-philippine-president-duterte/2446/.
29. Steve Eder and Ben Protess, “Snarl of Foreign Ties Arises in Trump Hotel Deal,” New
York Times, March 23, 2017, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/trump-organization-scion-hotel-deal.html.
30. Erika Kinetz, “China Grants Preliminary Approval to 38 New Trump Trademarks,” Associated Press, March 9, 2017, https://apnews.com/8f54b14808a2459f9efcb0089f41f056/china-grants-preliminary-approval-38-new-trump-trademarks.
31. Michael Kruse, “Donald Trump Says He ‘Called’ the ’08 Crash. Here’s What Really Happened,” Politico, October 7, 2016, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump-says-he-called-the-08-crash-heres-what-really-happened-214327.
32. Adam Davidson, “Donald Trump’s Worst Deal,” New Yorker, March 13, 2017, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/13/donald-trumps-worst-deal.
33. Nathan Layne, Ned Parker, Svetlana Reiter, Stephen Grey, and Ryan McNeill, “Russian Elite Invested Nearly $100 Million in Trump Buildings,” Reuters, March 17, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.