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34. Nick Penzenstadler, Steve Reilly, and John Kelly, “Most Trump Real Estate Now Sold to Secretive Buyers,” USA Today, June 13, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/13/trump-property-buyers-make-clear-shift-secretive-llcs/102399558/.
35. Jean Eaglesham and Lisa Schwartz, “Startup That Got a Seat at White House Roundtable Is Part-Owned by Kushner Family,” Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/startup-that-got-a-seat-at-white-house-roundtable-is-part-owned-by-kushner-family-1500045800.
36. Jared Kushner, Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278e), https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3534020/Jared-Kushner-Financial-Disclosure.pdf.
37. Jennifer Calfas, “Eric Trump Says He’ll Give the President Quarterly Updates on Business Empire,” Fortune, March 24, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/03/24/eric-trump-president-business-organization/.
38. Susanne Craig, “Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties,” New York Times, August 21, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html; Robert Costa, “Trump Family Members Met with GOP Leaders to Discuss Strategy,” Washington Post, May 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/27/trump-family-members-met-with-gop-leaders-to-discuss-strategy/.
39. Dave Burke and Erica Tempesta, “‘I Miss Her in New York!’ Eric Trump shares photo of himself and sister Ivanka at the White House, as she posts a sweet snap of her eldest son at the Smithsonian museum,” Daily Mail, March 10, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4300780/Eric-Trump-poses-sister-Ivanka-White-House.html.
40. Associated Press, “President Trump’s Daughter-in-Law Lara Has a New Job Helping the Trump Campaign,” Fortune, March 29, 2017, http://fortune.com/2017/03/29/donald-trump-campaign-lara/.
41. Drew Harwell and Tom Hamburger, “Despite Promise, Trump’s Business Offers Little Information about Foreign Profits,” Washington Post, May 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/despite-promise-trumps-business-offers-little-information-about-foreign-profits/2017/05/24/e4667da4-4091-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html.
42. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Attacks News Media, Which Then Battle Among Themselves,” New York Times, January 12, 2017, A19, http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/business/media/donald-trump-buzzfeed-cnn.html.
43. Kellyanne Conway, interview by George Stephanopoulos, This Week, ABC, January 22, 2017.
44. Susanne Craig, “Trump’s Empire: A Maze of Debts and Opaque Ties,” New York Times, August 21, 2016, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/us/politics/donald-trump-debt.html.
45. Ibid.
46. Timothy O’Brien, interview by Kelly McEvers, All Things Considered, NPR, January 13, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/01/13/509722763/timothy-obrien-trump-could-divest-or-sell-assets-to-avoid-conflicts-of-interest; Theodoric Meyer and Matthew Nussbaum, “Trump reports assets of at least $1.4 billion in financial disclosure,” Politico, June 16, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/16/us-ethics-office-releases-trumps-financial-disclosure-239649.
47. Sam Bloch, Jeremy Olds, Christian Erin-Madsen, and Renata Mosci, “Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump Failed to Disclose Their Multimillion-Dollar Art Collection,” Artnet.com, May 25, 2017, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-art-970010; “Jared Kushner Didn’t Disclose Startup Stake,” WSJ What’s News (podcast), 7:16, Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2017, http://www.wsj.com/podcasts/jared-kushner-didnt-disclose-startup-stake/42D3337E-5265-4C09-BCD5-FE756294FE69.html.
48. Charles Sumner, “Republicanism vs. Grantism,” Speech in the US Senate, May 31, 1872, in Charles Sumner, Charles Sumner: His Complete Works, vol. 20, ed. George Frisbie Hoar (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1900; Project Gutenberg, 2016), 145, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51025/51025-h/51025-h.htm#REPUBLICANISM_VS_GRANTISM.
49. Hui Chen, “Mission Matters,” LinkedIn, June 25, 2017, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mission-matters-hui-chen.
50. Adam Edelman, “Trump Has Offered up 1 Replacement Nearly 3 Months after Firing 46 Remaining Obama-Era U.S. Attorneys,” New York Daily News, June 4, 2017, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-1-replacement-3-months-firing-46-u-s-attorneys-article-1.3217910.
51. Laura Jarrett, “President Has Rare Meeting with US Attorney Nominee,” CNN.com, July 20, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/20/politics/donald-trump-jessie-liu-dc-us-attorney/index.html.
52. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, July 24, 2017, 5:49 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/889467610332528641.
53. Tim O’Brien, Twitter, July 27, 2017, 12:55 a.m., https://twitter.com/TimOBrien/status/890435464007741442/photo/1.
54. “‘It’s Not on Me, You Know, They’re Looking at a Lot of Things,’” New York Times, July 20, 2017, A12, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html.
55. “From George Washington to Samuel Vaughan, 21 March 1789,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-01-02-0325. Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 1, 24 September 1788 – 31 March 1789, ed. Dorothy Twohig (Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1987), 424–30.
56. Tal Shalev and Lahav Harkov, “Kafe Knesset for May 25,” Jewish Insider, May 25, 2017, http://jewishinsider.com/11762/kafe-knesset-for-may-25/.
57. “Ivanka Trump Takes Donald Trump Seat at G20 Leaders’ Table,” BBC.com, July 8, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-40541611.
58. Eugene Scott, Evan Perez, and Pamela Brown, “DOJ: Hiring Kushner Does Not Violate Anti-Nepotism Law,” CNN.com, January 21, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/21/politics/jared-kushner-white-house-job-justice-department-ruling/index.html.
59. “Thomas Jefferson to John Garland Jefferson, 25 January 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified June 29, 2017, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-02-02-0145. Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 2, 16 November 1809 to 11 August 1810, ed. J. Jefferson Looney (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 183–184.
Chapter 5: Betrayals
1. Glenn Thrush, Twitter, May 24, 2017, 1:29 p.m., https://twitter.com/glennthrush/status/867477564956323840.
2. Maggie Haberman, Twitter, May 24, 2017, 12:51 p.m., https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/867468019882115072.
3. Carrie Dann, “Trump’s Physician Says His Health Is ‘Astonishingly Excellent,’” NBC News, December 14, 2015, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trumps-physician-says-his-health-astonishingly-excellent-n479786.
4. Clemence Michallon, “‘Thank You, Baby’: Donald Trump Pays Tribute to Kellyanne Conway for Going on CNN to ‘Destroy’ His Critics When ‘My Men Are Petrified to Go On,’” Daily Mail, January 19, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4138948/Donald-Trump-pays-tribute-Kellyanne-Conway.html.
5. Saba Hamedy, “Kellyanne Conway: Comey’s Firing ‘Has Nothing to Do with Russia,’” CNN.com, May 9, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/politics/kellyanne-conway-anderson-cooper-comey-firing-cnntv/index.html.
6. Donald Trump, interview by Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News, NBC, May 11, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-reveals-he-asked-comey-whether-he-was-under-investigation-n757821.
7. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, May 12, 2017, 4:59 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/863000553265270786.
8. Mike Pence, interview by John Dickerson, Face the Nation, CBS, January 15, 2017.
9. Shawn Boburg and Aaron C. Davis, “Trump Attorney Jay Sekulow’s Family Has Been Paid Millions from Charities They Control,” Washington Post, June 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-attorney-jay-sekulows-family-has-been-paid-millions-from-charities-they-control/2017/06/27/6428d988-5852-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html.
10. Condoleezza Rice, speech at the 2000 Republican National Convention, Philadelphia, PA, August 1, 2000, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/ricetext080100
.htm.
11. Michael Flynn, speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cleveland, OH, July 18, 2016, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1607/18/se.04.html.
12. James V. Grimaldi, Dion Nissenbaum, and Margaret Coker, “Ex-CIA Director: Mike Flynn and Turkish Officials Discussed Removal of Erdogan Foe from U.S.,” Wall Street Journal, March 24, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/ex-cia-director-mike-flynn-and-turkish-officials-discussed-removal-of-erdogan-foe-from-u-s-1490380426.
13. Andy Kroll, “Donald Trump’s White House Counsel Has One Main Job—and He’s Failing at It,” Mother Jones, June 2, 2017, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/mcgahn-trump-flynn-russia-white-house/.
14. Tara Palmeri, “Trump’s Aides Build Their Own Empires in the West Wing,” Politico, July 6, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/06/trump-west-wing-staff-kushner-240244.
15. Jonathan Martin and Glenn Thrush, “Trump Steps in with Late Pitch to Wary Senate,” New York Times, June 28, 2017, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/health-care-bill-trump-pence.html.
16. Ibid.
17. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, September 30, 2017, 7:19 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914087234869047296?lang=en.
18. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, September 30, 2017, 7:26 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914089003745468417?lang=en.
19. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, October 1, 2017, 8:22 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/914465475777695744?lang=en.
20. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, July 1, 2017, 3:41 p.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881281755017355264.
21. Donald Trump, speech in Phoenix, AZ, August 22, 2017. See “President Trump Ranted For 77 Minutes in Phoenix. Here’s What He Said,” Time.com, August 23, 2017, http://time.com/4912055/donald-trump-phoenix-arizona-transcript/.
22. Nancy Cook and Josh Dawsey, “‘He Is Stubborn and Doesn’t Realize How Bad This Is Getting,’” Politico, August 16, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721.
23. Rachelle Blinder and Celeste Katz, “WATCH: Donald Trump Security Guard Hits Protester in Face after Taking Banner,” New York Daily News, September 4, 2015, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-security-guard-hits-protester-face-video-article-1.2348516.
24. Kate Bennett, “Trump family hires familiar face as chief usher,” CNN.com, June 23, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/23/politics/trump-timothy-harleth-chief-usher/index.html.
25. Errol Louis, “Trump Hires the Wedding Planner—to Oversee NY Federal Housing Program?,” CNN.com, June 16, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/16/opinions/patton-urban-development-louis-opinion/index.html.
26. Shawn Boburg, “Trump Seeks Sharp Cuts to Housing Aid, except for Program That Brings Him Millions,” Washington Post, June 20, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/trump-seeks-sharp-cuts-to-housing-aid-except-for-program-that-brings-him-millions/2017/06/20/bf1fb2b8-5531-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html.
27. Annie Ropeik, “Hundreds of Carrier Factory Jobs to Move to Mexico,” NPR, June 26, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/06/26/534365565/hundreds-of-carrier-factory-jobs-to-move-to-mexico.
28. Chris Cillizza, “Donald Trump’s Cabinet Members, Ranked by Their Over-the-Top Praise of Trump,” CNN.com, June 12, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/politics/trump-cabinet-ranked/index.html.
29. John McCain, press release, February 20, 2017, https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/2/statement-by-sasc-chairman-john-mccain-on-president-trump-s-selection-of-lt-gen-h-r-mcmaster-for-national-security-advisor.
30. David A. Graham, “Donald Trump Jr.’s Reply to an Offer of Russian Government Attorney: ‘I Love It,’” Atlantic, July 11, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/from-russia-with-love/533235/.
31. “Newt Gingrich Is Not Sure He Would Help Estonia against a Russian Invasion,” YouTube video, 0:43, from an appearance by Newt Gingrich at the 2016 Republican National Convention, posted by “consumer,” July 22, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78JZCvBfuNI.
32. Susan B. Glasser, “Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech,” Politico, June 5, 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/05/trump-nato-speech-national-security-team-215227.
33. Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler, “Trump Expected to Back NATO Mutual Aid Pledge,” New York Times, May 25, 2017, A09, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/world/trump-nato.html.
34. Susan B. Glasser, “Trump National Security Team Blindsided by NATO Speech.”
35. “McMaster Says ‘of Course’ Trump Supports NATO Article 5,” Reuters, May 27, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g7-summit-nato-idUSKBN18N0LV.
36. Eliot A. Cohen, “To an Anxious Friend . . . ,” American Interest, November 10, 2016, https://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/11/10/to-an-anxious-friend/.
37. Eliot A. Cohen, “Don’t Join This Team,” Washington Post, November 17, 2016, A17, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-told-conservatives-to-work-for-trump-one-talk-with-his-team-changed-my-mind/2016/11/15/f02e1fac-ab7c-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html.
38. “Sanders, Scaramucci Full White House Briefing,” YouTube video, 49:07, from a White House press briefing on July 21, 2017, posted by “CNN,” July 21, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQadb9WbDR4.
39. “Press Briefing by White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and Incoming White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci,” White House, July 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/21/press-briefing-white-house-principal-deputy-press-secretary-sarah.
40. Axios, Twitter, March 24, 2017, 8:28 a.m., https://twitter.com/axios/status/845296198839881728.
41. David Frum, “Advice for Those Weighing Jobs in the Trump Administration,” Atlantic, January 28, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-administration-jobs/514805/.
42. Peter Thiel, speech at the National Press Club, Washington, DC, October 31, 2016, http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/31/peter-thiel-on-trump-and-the-crazy-condition-of-our-country/.
43. Donald Trump, speech in Fort Dodge, IA, November 12, 2015; Donald Trump, speech in Greenville, NC, September 6, 2016.
44. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, October 23, 2016, 4:40 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/790337063489040384.
45. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, April 21, 2017, 3:32 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/855368516920332289.
46. Martin Pengelly, “Donald Trump Berates London Mayor over Response to Terror Attacks,” Guardian, June 4, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/04/trump-berates-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-terror-attacks.
47. Stephen J. Adler, Jeff Mason, and Steve Holland, “Exclusive: Trump Vows to Fix or Scrap South Korea Trade Deal, Wants Missile System Payment,” Reuters, April 27, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/politics/article/us-usa-trump-southkorea-exclusive-idUSKBN17U09M.
48. Bryan Harris, Katrina Manson, and Robin Harding, “South Korea Suspends Deployment of US Missile Shield,” Financial Times, June 8, 2017, https://www.ft.com/content/19060384-4b34-11e7-919a-1e14ce4af89b.
49. “Iran Nuclear: Trump Extends Obama’s ‘Worst Deal Ever,’” BBC.com, May 17, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39950827.
50. Ron Nixon, “Homeland Security Will Start Building Border Wall Prototypes This Summer,” New York Times, June 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/politics/homeland-security-will-start-building-border-wall-prototypes-this-summer.html.
51. Eli Stokols, “Jeb Bush: George W. Spent Too Much Money,” Politico, May 21, 2015, http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/jeb-bush-differences-economic-issues-george-w-bush-118179.
52. Grover Norquist, speech at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, DC, February 11, 2012. See “Grover Norquist Remarks,” C-SPAN video, 23:36, https://www.c-span.org/video/?304376-9/grover-norquist-remarks.
53. Jennifer Steinhauer, “Ryan Now Faces Tea Party Forces H
e Helped Unleash,” New York Times, March 3, 2016, A13, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/politics/paul-ryan-faces-tea-party-forces-that-he-helped-unleash.html.
54. Philip Rucker, “Trump Refuses to Endorse Paul Ryan in GOP Primary: ‘I’m Just Not Quite There Yet,’” Washington Post, August 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-refuses-to-endorse-paul-ryan-in-gop-primary-im-just-not-quite-there-yet/2016/08/02/1449f028-58e9-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html; Eric Bradner, “Paul Ryan: ‘I’m just not ready’ to back Donald Trump,” CNN.com, May 5, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/05/politics/paul-ryan-donald-trump-gop-nominee/index.html.
55. Jeffrey M. Jones, “Avg. Midterm Seat Loss 36 for Presidents Below 50% Approval,” Gallup News, August 9, 2010, http://www.gallup.com/poll/141812/avg-midterm-seat-loss-presidents-below-approval.aspx.