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56. McKay Coppins, “The Prince of Oversight,” Atlantic, March 31, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/jason-chaffetz-oversight/521271/.
57. Anna Brand, “Pence: Trump Is a Businessman, Not a Career Politician,” NBC News, October 4, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/card/pence-trump-businessman-not-career-politician-n659766.
58. Todd Beamon, “Mitch McConnell on Trump: ‘He’s Learning the Job,’” Newsmax, April 13, 2017, http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/McConnell-Trump/2017/04/13/id/784257/.
59. “Speaker Ryan: ‘The President’s New at This, He’s New to Government.’ (C-SPAN),” YouTube video, 1:13, from the House Speaker’s weekly briefing on June 8, 2017, posted by “C-SPAN,” June 8, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8DmceX5tD4.
60. Face the Nation, Twitter, July 2, 2017, 7:54 a.m., https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/881526435332194305/video/1.
61. Aaron Blake, “Trump Is Starting to Tear the GOP Apart,” Washington Post, August 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/24/trump-is-starting-to-tear-the-gop-apart/.
62. William D. Cohan, “Decades-Old Questions Over Trump’s Wealth and Education,” New York Times, September 29, 2015, http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/business/dealbook/decades-old-questions-over-trumps-wealth-and-education.html.
63. Michael Kruse, “‘He’s a Performance Artist Pretending to Be a Great Manager,’” Politico, February 28, 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/hes-a-performance-artist-pretending-to-be-a-great-manager-214836.
64. Tara Palmeri, “Need to Reach Trump? Call Rhona,” Politico, March 26, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/rhona-graff-trump-conduit-236484.
65. Associated Press, “Trump’s Use of Private Cellphone Raises Security Concerns,” CNBC.com, May 30, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/30/trump-to-world-leaders-call-me-maybe--on-my-cellphone.html.
66. Andrew Exum, “Cheapening a Sacred Space,” Atlantic, January 23, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/no-way-to-honor-sacrifice/514097/; Ashley Parker and David Nakamura, “In tweet storm, Trump decries ‘illegal leaks’ and asserts ‘all agree’ he has complete power to pardon,” Washington Post, July 22, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/07/22/trump-denounces-illegal-leaks-in-new-accounts-of-his-campaigns-contact-with-russia/; Jim Sciutto, Twitter, July 27, 2017, 10:58 a.m., https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/890632536673492993/photo/1.
67. Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “Bannon Vows a Daily Fight for ‘Deconstruction of the Administrative State,’” Washington Post, February 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-wh-strategist-vows-a-daily-fight-for-deconstruction-of-the-administrative-state/2017/02/23/03f6b8da-f9ea-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html.
Chapter 6: Enemies of the People
1. Will Jordan, Twitter, July 26, 2017, 7:29 a.m., https://twitter.com/williamjordann/status/890217480236519426/photo/1.
2. “Large Majorities See Checks and Balances, Right to Protest as Essential for Democracy,” Pew Research Center, March 2, 2017, http://www.people-press.org/2017/03/02/large-majorities-see-checks-and-balances-right-to-protest-as-essential-for-democracy/.
3. Laura Santhanam, “New Poll: 70% of Americans Think Civility Has Gotten Worse since Trump Took Office,” The Rundown (blog), PBS, July 3, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/new-poll-70-americans-think-civility-gotten-worse-since-trump-took-office/.
4. Donald Trump, speech at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, National Harbor, MD, February 24, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/24/remarks-president-trump-conservative-political-action-conference.
5. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, January 8, 2017, 8:05 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/818307689323368448.
6. “Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements,” White House, January 25, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements.
7. Alana Abramson, “Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Think Mexico Will Pay for President Trump’s Border Wall,” Time, March 9, 2017, http://time.com/4696656/mitch-mcconnell-president-trump-mexico-wall/.
8. Jeremy Burke, “Trump Floated a Solar-Paneled Border Wall with Mexico—Here’s What It Would Look Like,” Business Insider, June 22, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-solar-border-wall-mexico-images-2017-6.
9. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, January 18, 2017, 4:34 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/821697182235496450; Twitter, January 18, 2017, 4:44 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/821699672687448064.
10. Ylan Q. Mui and Steven Overly, “The Myth and Reality of Donald Trump’s Job Claims,” Washington Post, January 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/03/trump-reiterates-threat-of-a-border-tax-this-time-general-motors-is-in-the-crosshairs/.
11. Todd Spangler, “Trump Officials Greet Ford’s Plan to Import Chinese Cars,” USA Today, June 20, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2017/06/20/trump-officials-greet-fords-plan-import-chinese-cars/103049064/.
12. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, February 26, 2017, 10:16 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/835916511944523777.
13. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, June 23, 2017, 5:43 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/878413313188802560.
14. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, March 18, 2017, 6:15 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/843088518339612673.
15. Michael Birnbaum and Rick Noack, “Following Trump’s Trip, Merkel Says Europe Can’t Rely On ‘Others.’ She Means the U.S.,” Washington Post, May 28, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/following-trumps-trip-merkel-says-europe-cant-rely-on-us-anymore/2017/05/28/4c6b92cc-43c1-11e7-8de1-cec59a9bf4b1_story.html.
16. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, February 17, 2017, 1:48 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/832708293516632065.
17. David Jackson, “Trump Again Calls Media ‘Enemy of the People,’” USA Today, February 24, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/24/donald-trump-cpac-media-enemy-of-the-people/98347970/.
18. For the record, Trump is not wrong that Amazon’s rise was greatly assisted by online retailing’s exemption from the duty to collect and remit state sales taxes. That exemption has long been upheld as party dogma by congressional Republicans, abetted by outside lobbying groups like Americans for Tax Reform. By 2016, however, Amazon not only collected sales in all forty-five states that have one, but had begun to advocate a federal Internet sales tax too. Amazon does not collect sales taxes from third-party sellers who use its platform. It seems unlikely that President Trump has any awareness of any of these details.
19. Michael M. Grynbaum, “A Network vs. the President,” New York Times, July 6, 2017, B01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/business/media/jeffrey-zucker-cnn-trump.html.
20. Kellyanne Conway, interview by Chuck Todd, Meet the Press, NBC, January 22, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-01-22-17-n710491.
21. Nic Dawes, “Maneuvering a New Reality for US Journalism,” Columbia Journalism Review, November 22, 2016, https://www.cjr.org/the_feature/trump_journalism_press_freedom_global.php.
22. Peter Bull, “Theresa May Has a Very Special Technique for Avoiding Questions,” The Conversation, October 24, 2016, https://theconversation.com/theresa-may-has-a-very-special-technique-for-avoiding-questions-67424.
23. “Never Said That | The Briefing,” YouTube video, 1:42, posted by “The Briefing,” September 28, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHclppeLdi0.
24. Masha Gessen, “The Putin Paradigm,” NYR Daily, New York Review of Books, December 13, 2016, http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2016/12/13/putin-paradigm-how-trump-will-rule/.
25. Kellyanne Conway, interview by Alisyn Camerota, New Day, CNN, September 13, 2016.
26. Lou Cannon, “When Spokesmen Lie,” Washington Post, April 18, 1988, A2, https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch
ive/politics/1988/04/18/when-spokesmen-lie/9dd79b06-2367-4ff2-9aba-07def9479016/.
27. Arthur Sylvester, “The Government Has the Right to Lie,” Saturday Evening Post, November 18, 1967, 10.
28. Jake Tapper, Twitter, June 29, 2017, 6:20 p.m., https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/880596947421278208/photo/1.
29. Gary Langer, “6 Months In, a Record Low for Trump, with Troubles from Russia to Health Care (POLL),” ABC News, July 16, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/months-record-low-trump-troubles-russia-health-care/story?id=48639490.
30. Ibid.
31. Fox & Friends, Fox News Network, June 23, 2017.
32. Fox & Friends, Fox News Network, June 8, 2017.
33. Hannity, Fox News Network, June 29, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/06/29/levin-good-to-know-where-liberals-finally-draw-line-sekulow-speaks-out-about-scandals-that-need-investigation.html.
34. Sean Hannity, Twitter, November 23, 2016, 12:37 p.m., https://twitter.com/seanhannity/status/801525154740314112.
35. Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush, “‘I’m Right Here!’ Spicer Says, Keeping Podium While Toiling to Find Successor,” New York Times, June 21, 2017, A13, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/us/politics/im-right-here-sean-spicer-says-while-toiling-to-find-successor.html.
36. “White House Briefing Bar: Media Groups Condemn Exclusion,” BBC.com, February 25, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39088770.
37. 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/.
38. Mark Landler and Maggie Haberman, “Trump Again Blames Media in U.S. Divide,” New York Times, August 23, 2017, A01, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/22/us/politics/trump-rally-arizona.html.
39. Chris Bucher, “LISTEN: Police Scanner Audio from Ben Jacobs & Greg Gianforte Incident,” Heavy.com, May 24, 2017, modified May 25, 2017, http://heavy.com/news/2017/05/greg-gianforte-body-slam-ben-jacobs-audio-police-scanner-assault-listen-montana-reporter.
40. Fox News Specialists, Fox News Network, May 25, 2017.
41. Rush Limbaugh Show, May 25, 2017, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2017/05/25/montana-special-election-your-host-joins-the-condemnation-of-the-studly-manly-republican-who-beat-up-a-skinny-millennial-reporter-and-is-running-against-a-radical-leftist-posing-as-a-cowboy/.
42. Thomas Phippen, “Montana Politician Raised $116,000 AFTER He Choke-Slammed a Reporter,” Daily Caller, June 28, 2017, http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/28/montana-politician-raised-116000-after-he-choke-slammed-a-reporter/.
43. Greg Bluestein, “Georgia 6th: Montana Victor Calls for Help Defeating ‘Liberals in Georgia,’” AJC.com, May 27, 2017, http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/05/27/georgia-6th-montana-victor-calls-for-help-defeating-liberals-in-georgia/.
44. Adrian Chen, “The Agency,” New York Times Magazine, June 7, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html.
45. Massimo Calabresi, “Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America,” Time.com, May 18, 2017, http://time.com/4783932/inside-russia-social-media-war-america/.
46. Nancy Gibbs, “A Note to Our Readers,” Time, January 24, 2017, http://time.com/4645541/donald-trump-white-house-oval-office/.
47. Lindsey Ellefson, “Chris Cuomo, Trump Aide Tangle over ‘Travel Ban’ Tweets,” CNN.com, June 5, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/05/politics/cuomo-and-gorka-spar-cnntv/index.html.
48. Hannity, Fox News Network, June 5, 2017.
49. Aaron Blake, “Sarah Huckabee Sanders Lambastes Fake News—and Then Promotes a Journalist Accused of Deceptive Videos,” Washington Post, June 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/27/sarah-huckabee-sanders-lambastes-fake-news-while-promoting-journalist-known-for-deceptive-videos/.
50. “Does Macron Wash His Hands after Shaking Hands with Workers?,” First Draft News, April 28, 2017, https://crosscheck.firstdraftnews.com/checked-french/macron-wash-hands-shaking-hands-workers.
51. Dustin Volz, “U.S. Far-Right Activists, WikiLeaks, and Bots Help Amplify Macron Leaks: Researchers,” Reuters.com, May 6, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-election-cyber/u-s-far-right-activists-wikileaks-and-bots-help-amplify-macron-leaks-researchers-idUSKBN1820QO.
52. Jordan Pearson, “The Same Twitter Bots That Helped Trump Tried to Sink Macron, Researcher Says,” Motherboard, Vice, July 6, 2017, https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwak5/the-same-twitter-bots-that-helped-trump-tried-to-sink-macron-researcher-says.
53. Mike Cernovich, “Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials,” Medium, April 2, 2017, https://medium.com/@Cernovich/susan-rice-requested-unmasking-of-incoming-trump-administration-officials-30085b5cff16.
54. Jim Hoft, “Update=> Erdogan Holds 1,500 US Servicemen Hostage at Incirlik Over Attempted Coup,” Gateway Pundit, July 17, 2016, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/update-erdogan-holds-1500-us-servicemen-hostage-incirlik-attempted-coup/; Michael M. Grynbaum, “A Pro-Trump Blog Gains White House Credentials,” New York Times, February 14, 2017, A18, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/business/the-gateway-pundit-trump.html.
55. “Rex Tillerson and Wilbur Ross Do Sword Dance in Saudi Arabia,” YouTube video, 8:46, posted by “LIVE SATELLITE NEWS,” May 20, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li9dGCC2SdU.
56. Julie Pace and Jonathan Lemire, “Trump’s Frustrations Are Boiling over after Comey Dismissal,” Associated Press, May 13, 2017, https://www.apnews.com/f6b3c3ebe5164c188072f5787357360f.
57. CNN Newsroom, CNN, July 7, 2017. See “CNN’s David Gergen on Trump Putin Meeting: ‘This Was Presidential, This Was Big League Stuff,’” YouTube video, 0:51, posted by “GOP War Room,” July 7, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNpqjRTHskk.
58. “Van Jones: Trump Became President in That Moment,” YouTube video, 1:45, posted by “CNN,” February 28, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPhsSqXHRAs.
59. Donald Trump, joint press event with Polish President Andrzej Duda, Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/06/es.02.html.
60. Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights, “Polish Journalists Face Strict Work Limitations for Covering Parliament,” Civil Liberties Union for Europe, January 31, 2017, https://www.liberties.eu/en/news/limitations-on-work-of-parliamentary-correspondents-poland.
61. Tom Kludt, “Other Presidents Boosted Free Press Abroad; Trump Bashes It,” CNN.com, July 6, 2017, http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/06/media/poland-speech-donald-trump-media-attack/index.html.
62. The phrase was generally reported as “Are these the ones who have insulted you?” but my Atlantic colleague Julia Ioffe, a native speaker of Russian, explained to me that this was not quite right. The phrase Putin used was more something that a parent would say to an upset child than something one man would say to another who had suffered a true affront.
63. Committee to Protect Journalists, “Journalists Detained in Wake of Turkey Referendum,” April 21, 2017, https://cpj.org/2017/04/journalists-detained-in-wake-of-turkey-referendum.php.
64. Committee to Protect Journalists, “South African Reporters Attacked Covering Protests, Broadcaster Suspends Journalists,” June 24, 2016, https://cpj.org/2016/06/south-african-reporters-attacked-covering-protests.php.
65. “NDTV India Ordered off Air on Nov 9 over Coverage of Pathankot Attack,” Hindustan Times (New Delhi), November 3, 2016, http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ndtv-india-to-be-taken-off-air-for-a-day-over-pathankot-attack-coverage/story-ABLkwpoDHpmS4rdg5jSUCK.html.
Chapter 7: Rigged System
1. Jens Manuel Krogstad and Mark Hugo Lopez, “Black Voter Turnout Fell in 2016, Even as a Record Number of Americans Cast Ballots,” Fact Tank (blog), Pew Research Center, May 12, 2016, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/05/12/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots/. This paper is the source for all the numbers cited in
the first three paragraphs of this chapter.
2. Jonathan Martin, “Young Blacks Voice Doubts About Clinton,” New York Times, September 5, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/us/politics/young-blacks-voice-skepticism-on-hillary-clinton-worrying-democrats.html.
3. “FAQ,” VoteTexas.gov, accessed September 28, 2017, http://www.votetexas.gov/faq/#2071.
4. Zachary Roth, “Wisconsin Throws up Major Voter Registration Hurdle,” MSNBC.com, March 25, 2016, http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/wisconsin-throws-major-voter-registration-hurdle.
5. Laura Santhanam, “New Poll: 70% of Americans Think Civility Has Gotten Worse since Trump Took Office,” The Rundown (blog), PBS, July 3, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/new-poll-70-americans-think-civility-gotten-worse-since-trump-took-office/.
6. Paul Ryan, “The Path to Prosperity,” speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, April 5, 2011, http://www.aei.org/publication/the-path-to-prosperity/.