by David Frum
7. Donald J. Trump Jr., Twitter, October 3, 2012, 1:23 p.m., https://twitter.com/donaldjtrumpjr/status/253545899958087680.
8. Donald Trump, interview by David Brody, The Brody File, Christian Broadcasting Network, September 9, 2016, http://www1.cbn.com/thebrodyfile/archive/2016/09/09/brody-file-exclusive-donald-trump-says-this-will-be-the-last-election-that-the-republicans-have-a-chance-of-winning.
9. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, November 27, 2016, 3:30 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/802972944532209664.
10. Jesse T. Richman, Gulshan A. Chattha, and David C. Earnest, “Do Non-Citizens Vote in U.S. Elections?,” Electoral Studies 36 (December 2014), 149–57, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2014.09.001.
11. Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Sen. Al Franken Claims That Donald Trump’s New Ad on the Economy Is Anti-Semitic,” Washington Post, November 6, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/06/sen-al-franken-claims-that-donald-trumps-new-ad-on-the-economy-is-anti-semitic/.
12. Anti-Defamation League, Twitter, November 6, 2016, 10:40 a.m., https://twitter.com/ADL_National/status/795289665809088512.
13. Erica R. Hendry, “A Trump Commission Requested Voter Data. Here’s What Every State Is Saying,” The Rundown (blog), PBS, June 30, 2017, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-commission-requested-voter-data-heres-every-state-saying/.
14. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, July 1, 2017, 9:07 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/881137079958241280.
15. Alexa Corse, “South Carolina May Prove a Microcosm of U.S. Election Hacking Efforts,” Wall Street Journal, July 16, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-may-prove-a-microcosm-of-u-s-election-hacking-efforts-1500202806.
16. Alana Abramson, “President Trump’s Lawyer Made a Mistake in Describing James Comey’s Testimony,” Time, June 8, 2017, http://time.com/4811888/comey-testimony-marc-kasowitz-mistake/.
17. Russian assistance to congressional Republicans is an insufficiently appreciated aspect of interference in the 2016 election. See Eric Lipton and Scott Shane, “Russians Hacked Democrats Vying for House Seats,” New York Times, December 15, 2016, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/house-democrats-hacking-dccc.html.
18. Jo Becker, Adam Goldman, and Matt Apuzzo, “Emails Disclose Trump Son’s Glee at Russian Offer,” New York Times, July 12, 2017, A1, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/trump-russia-email-clinton.html.
19. Tom Hamburger, Carol D. Leonnig, and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Trump Campaign Emails Show Aide’s Repeated Efforts to Set up Russia Meetings,” Washington Post, August 14, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-emails-show-aides-repeated-efforts-to-set-up-russia-meetings/2017/08/14/54d08da6-7dc2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html.
20. Issie Lapowsky, “Did Trump’s Data Team Help Russians? Facebook Might Have the Answer,” Wired, July 14, 2017, https://www.wired.com/story/trump-russia-data-parscale-facebook/.
21. Adam Entous, Ellen Nakashima, and Greg Miller, “Secret CIA Assessment Says Russia Was Trying to Help Trump Win White House,” Washington Post, December 9, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-orders-review-of-russian-hacking-during-presidential-campaign/2016/12/09/31d6b300-be2a-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html.
22. Ibid.
23. Domenico Montanaro and Arnie Seipel, “McConnell, Differing with Trump, Says He Has ‘Highest Confidence’ in Intel Agencies,” NPR, December 12, 2016, http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505260062/mcconnell-differing-with-trump-says-he-has-highest-confidence-in-intel-agencies.
24. Rebecca Shabad, “Russia Sanctions Bill Stalls in House as Trump Prepares for First Putin Meeting,” CBS News, July 6, 2017, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sanctions-bill-stalls-in-house-as-trump-prepares-for-first-putin-meeting/.
25. Josh Dawsey and Elana Schor, “Trump Clashed with Multiple GOP Senators over Russia,” Politico, August 23, 2017, http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/23/trump-senate-yell-phone-calls-241950.
26. “‘The Administration Then Chose to Defame Me,’” New York Times, June 9, 2017, A22, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html.
27. David Frum, Twitter, May 25, 2017, 2:55 p.m., https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/867861680591695873.
28. This quote and others were all helpfully compiled by Natasha Bertrand and Maxwell Tani of Business Insider. See Natasha Bertrand and Maxwell Tani, “‘Collusion Is Not a Crime’: Trump’s Media Allies Have a Striking New Talking Point That Experts Say Is ‘Flawed’ and ‘Absurd,’” Business Insider, June 27, 2017, http://www.businessinsider.com/collusion-russia-trump-crime-2017-6.
29. Ibid.
30. Bertrand and Tani, “‘Collusion Is Not a Crime.”
31. Hannity, Fox News Network, June 22, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2017/06/22/gingrich-calls-for-gop-to-focus-on-deep-tax-cuts-tom-price-health-care-bill-move-in-right-direction.html.
32. Ibid.
33. Fox News Sunday, Fox News Network, June 25, 2017.
34. Dennis Prager, Twitter, July 14, 2017, 1:55 p.m., https://twitter.com/dennisprager/status/885920697708564480.
35. Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Carrie Dann, “Putting the Trump-Russia Timeline into Perspective,” First Read (newsletter), NBC News, July 10, 2017, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/putting-trump-russia-timeline-perspective-n781236.
36. “Russian Election: Big Victory for Putin-Backed Party United Russia,” BBC.com, September 19, 2016, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37403242.
37. David Wagner, “Sorry, Conservatives, De Tocqueville Did Not Call the 2012 Election,” Atlantic, November 8, 2012, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/sorry-conservatives-de-tocqueville-did-not-call-2012-election/321393/.
38. Jeffrey Sullivan, “Armed Group Appears at Council to Oppose Statue’s Removal,” Rivard Report, August 16, 2017, https://therivardreport.com/armed-group-appears-at-council-to-oppose-statues-removal/.
39. Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling, August 26, 1863, in The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Joseph R. Fornieri (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2003), 669.
40. Ryan J. Reilly, “A Guy in a Trump Shirt Carried a Gun Outside of a Virginia Polling Place. Authorities Say That’s Fine,” Huffington Post, November 4, 2016, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-supporter-gun-voter-intimidation-virginia_us_581cf16ee4b0aac624846eb5.
41. Christopher Ingraham, “The Average Gun Owner Now Owns 8 Guns—Double What It Used to Be,” Washington Post, October 21, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/21/the-average-gun-owner-now-owns-8-guns-double-what-it-used-to-be/.
42. Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Infrastructure,” New York, NY, August 15, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/08/15/remarks-president-trump-infrastructure.
43. 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/.
44. Ben Schreckinger, “Trump on Protester: ‘I’d like to Punch Him in the Face,’” Politico, February 23, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-punch-protester-219655.
45. Donald Trump, speech in Brentwood, NY, July 28, 2017.
46. Ibid.
47. Asawin Suebsaeng, Twitter, July 28, 2017, 2:34 p.m., https://twitter.com/swin24/status/891003873296490497.
Chapter 8: America Alone
1. H. R. McMaster and Gary D. Cohn, “America First Doesn’t Mean America Alone,” Wall Street Journal, May 30, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-first-doesnt-mean-america-alone-1496187426.
2. “Highlights of Reuters Interview with Trump,” Reuters, April 27, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-interview-highlights-idUSKBN17U0D4.
3. Jeff Zeleny, Dan Merica, and Kevin Liptak, “Trump’s ‘Fire and Fury’ Remark Was Improvised but Fam
iliar,” CNN.com, August 9, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/trump-fire-fury-improvise-north-korea/index.html.
4. “Remarks by President Trump to the 72nd Session of the United Nations General Assembly,” White House, September 19, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/19/remarks-president-trump-72nd-session-united-nations-general-assembly.
5. Chun Han Wong, Jonathan Cheng, and Alastair Gale, “‘Duped by Trump’: U.S. Taunted Over Carl Vinson Aircraft Carrier Tale,” Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/false-narrative-on-u-s-aircraft-carrier-elicits-jeers-in-asia-1492577625.
6. “WSJ Trump Interview Excerpts: China, North Korea, Ex-Im Bank, Obamacare, Bannon, More,” Washington Wire (blog), Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2017, https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2017/04/12/wsj-trump-interview-excerpts-china-north-korea-ex-im-bank-obamacare-bannon.
7. Richard Wike, Bruce Stokes, Jacob Poushter, and Janell Fetterolf, “U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership,” Pew Research Center, June 26, 2017, http://www.pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s-image-suffers-as-publics-around-world-question-trumps-leadership/.
8. Greg Miller, “Trump Urged Mexican President to End His Public Defiance on Border Wall, Transcript Reveals,” Washington Post, August 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/you-cannot-say-that-to-the-press-trump-urged-mexican-president-to-end-his-public-defiance-on-border-wall-transcript-reveals/2017/08/03/0c2c0a4e-7610-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html.
9. Dorothy Manevich and Hanyu Chwe, “Globally, More People See U.S. Power and Influence as a Major Threat,” Fact Tank (blog), Pew Research Center, August 1, 2017, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/08/01/u-s-power-and-influence-increasingly-seen-as-threat-in-other-countries/.
10. Ben Knight, “Merkel Congratulates Trump as Politicians Express Shock,” DW.com, November 9, 2016, http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-congratulates-trump-as-politicians-express-shock/a-36318866.
11. Tracy Wilkinson and Brian Bennett, “After Trump Reluctantly Certifies Iran Is Obeying Nuclear Deal, He Slaps It with New Sanctions,” Los Angeles Times, July 18, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-trump-iran-20170718-story.html.
12. Thomas Erdbrink, “Arab Rift with Qatar Is Welcome in Tehran,” New York Times, July 5, 2017, A4, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/middleeast/for-iran-qatar-crisis-is-a-welcome-distraction.html.
13. Karen DeYoung and Ellen Nakashima, “UAE Orchestrated Hacking of Qatari Government Sites, Sparking Regional Upheaval, According to U.S. Intelligence Officials,” Washington Post, July 16, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/uae-hacked-qatari-government-sites-sparking-regional-upheaval-according-to-us-intelligence-officials/2017/07/16/00c46e54-698f-11e7-8eb5-cbccc2e7bfbf_story.html.
14. Marc Champion and Marek Strzelecki, “The Real Impact of Trump’s Foreign Trips Happens After He Leaves,” Bloomberg News, July 18, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-18/when-trump-goes-abroad-radical-change-follows-in-his-footsteps.
15. Fredreka Schouten, “President Trump’s Hotel Received $270,000 from Saudi Arabia,” CNBC.com, June 6, 2017, http://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/06/president-trumps-dc-hotel-received-270000-from-saudi-arabia.html.
16. Donald Trump, speech in Warsaw, Poland, July 6, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/06/remarks-president-trump-people-poland-july-6-2017.
17. Matthew Tostevin, “Trump Factor Weighs as Vietnam Intensifies Crackdown on Dissidents,” Reuters, August 2, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-vietnam-arrests-idUSKBN1AI0LF.
18. Miles Parks and Tamara Keith, “Timeline of Trump and Russia in Mid-2016: A Series of Coincidences or Something More?,” NPR, July 17, 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/537323120/timeline-of-trump-and-russia-in-mid-2016-a-series-of-coincidences-or-something-m.
19. George W. Bush, “President Bush, European Leaders Act to Fight Global Terror,” June 25, 2003, https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2003/06/20030625-12.html.
20. William J. Clinton, “Remarks to Future Leaders of Europe in Brussels,” January 9, 1994. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=49643.
21. “Transcript: Donald Trump on NATO, Turkey’s Coup Attempt and the World,” New York Times, July 22, 2016, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-interview.html.
22. Noah Barkin, “Exclusive: White House Delivered EU-skeptic Message before Pence Visit—Sources,” Reuters, February 21, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-trump-idUSKBN1601DS.
23. Max Ehrenfreund, “‘We Are in a Trade War,’ Trump’s Commerce Secretary Says after Stern German Warning,” Washington Post, March 31, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/31/we-are-in-a-trade-war-trumps-commerce-secretary-says-after-stern-german-warning/.
24. David Lawder, “Trump Adviser Navarro: U.S., Germany Should Discuss Trade outside EU,” Reuters, March 6, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-trade-navarro-idUSKBN16D1KK.
25. “U.S.’s Tillerson praises Turkish ‘courage’ during coup attempt,” Reuters, July 9, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-turkey/u-s-s-tillerson-praises-turkish-courage-during-coup-attempt-idUSKBN19U0WE.
26. “Joint Press Conference with President Trump and German Chancellor Merkel,” White House, March 17, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/17/joint-press-conference-president-trump-and-german-chancellor-merkel.
27. Ibid.
28. Donald J. Trump, Twitter, May 30, 2017, 3:40 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/869503804307275776.
29. Eli Watkins, “While Campaigning, Merkel Says Europeans Can’t ‘Completely’ Rely On US, Others,” CNN.com, May 28, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/28/politics/angela-merkel-donald-trump-g7/index.html.
30. 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.
31. Greg Miller and Stephanie Kirchner, “Germany Orders CIA Station Chief to Leave over Spying Allegations,” Washington Post, July 10, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/germany-expels-us-intelligence-station-chief-over-spying-allegations/2014/07/10/dc60b1f0-083c-11e4-8a6a-19355c7e870a_story.html.
32. Greg Miller 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.
33. Lachlan Markay, Asawin Suebsaeng, and Noah Shachtman, “Trump Officials: ‘He Looks More and More Like a Complete Moron,’” Daily Beast, May 19, 2017, http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-officials-he-looks-more-and-more-like-a-complete-moron.
34. J. Lester Feder, “This Is How Steve Bannon Sees the Entire World,” BuzzFeed News, November 15, 2016, https://www.buzzfeed.com/lesterfeder/this-is-how-steve-bannon-sees-the-entire-world.
35. Christopher Caldwell, speech at Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Phoenix, AZ, February 15, 2017, https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/how-to-think-about-vladimir-putin/.
36. Vivian Salama, “Trump’s Embrace of Russia Making Top Advisers Wary,” Associated Press, July 20, 2017, https://apnews.com/4b4b7e380f204b45a8c3055a5d45255e/Trump’s-embrace-of-Russia-making-top-advisers-wary.
37. Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous, “Trump Ends Covert CIA Program to Arm Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria, a Move Sought by Moscow,” Washington Post, July 19, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-ends-covert-cia-program-to-arm-anti-assad-rebels-in-syria-a-move-sought-by-moscow/2017/07/19/b6821a62-6beb-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html.
38. Elise Labott, Nicole Gaouette, and Richard Roth, “US Signals Open
ness to Assad Staying Put,” CNN.com, March 30, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/30/politics/tillerson-haley-syria-assad-turkey/index.html.
39. Alexander Bolton, “McConnell: Assad Must Go,” Hill, April 7, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/327826-mcconnell-assad-must-go.
40. Ed Royce, “Chairman Royce: Assad Must Go,” press release, April 4, 2017, https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/chairman-royce-assad-must-go/.
41. Marco Rubio, “Rubio Statement on U.S. Airstrikes in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=E4F4A2DA-C8C3-4492-BB72-3C49503F3838; Cory Gardner, “Gardner Statement on US Strikes in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.gardner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/gardner-statement-on-us-strikes-in-syria; James Lankford, “Senator Lankford: Assad Must Go,” press release, April 4, 2017, https://www.lankford.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senator-lankford-assad-must-go; Bob Corker, “Corker Statement on U.S. Missile Strikes in Syria,” press release, April 6, 2017, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/chair/release/corker-statement-on-us-missile-strikes-in-syria.