“organizing a demonstration”: United States Department of State, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2016,” https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/index.htm#wrapper.
aside from soccer matches: Janine Di Giovanni, “When It Comes to Beheadings, ISIS Has Nothing over Saudi Arabia,” Newsweek, Oct. 14, 2014, http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/24/when-it-comes-beheadings-isis-has-nothing-over-saudi-arabia-277385.html.
convicted murderer: Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide, “Death Penalty Database: Qatar,” Jan. 1, 2010, https://www.deathpenaltyworldwide.org/country-search-post.cfm?country=Qatar.
Trump’s Riyadh speech: President Trump’s Speech to the Arab Islamic American Summit, May 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/21/president-trumps-speech-arab-islamic-american-summit.
Abandonining that history: Ibid.
Saudis fund the Taliban: Carlotta Gall, “Saudis Bankroll Taliban, Even as King Officially Supports Afghan Government,” New York Times, Dec. 6, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/06/world/asia/saudi-arabia-afghanistan.html.
Trump had interests: Stephen Rex Brown, “EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump Made Millions from Saudi Arabia, but Trashes Hillary Clinton for Saudi Donations to Clinton Foundation,” Sept. 4, 2016, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/exclusive-donald-trump-made-millions-saudi-government-article-1.2777211.
Trump said he would have a conflict: Ashley Dejean, “Donald Trump Has a Conflict of Interest in Turkey. Just Ask Donald Trump,” Mother Jones, April 18, 2017, http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/04/trump-turkey-erdogan-conflict-interest/.
“we need to use”: Wikileaks.org, https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3774.
started providing $110 million annually: Phil Stewart, “Exclusive: U.S. to Spend Up to $550 Million on African Rapid Response Forces,” Reuters, Aug. 6, 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-africa-summit-military/exclusive-u-s-to-spend-up-to-550-million-on-african-rapid-response-forces-idUSKBN0G623J20140807.
“life-saving potential”: The White House, “FACT SHEET: U.S. Support for Peacekeeping in Africa,” Aug. 6, 2014, https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/08/06/fact-sheet-us-support-peacekeeping-africa.
without direct American involvement: United States Department of State, “U.S. Peacekeeping Capacity Building Assistance,” Jan. 25, 2017, https://www.state.gov/t/pm/rls/fs/2017/266854.htm.
TRADE
“will to survive”: The White House, “Remarks by President Trump to the People of Poland,” July 6, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/07/06/remarks-president-trump-people-poland-july-6-2017.
A new trade deal: “A New Trade Deal Between the EU and Japan,” The Economist, July 8, 2017, https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21724830-besides-slashing-tariffs-cheese-and-cars-it-sends-message-donald-trump.
“the world’s largest free”: James Kanter, “The E.U.-Japan Trade Deal: What’s in It and Why It Matters,” New York Times, July 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/business/economy/japan-eu-trade-agreement.html.
Jean-Claude Juncker: Remarks by European Commission President Juncker at the joint press briefing with Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, and Shinzō Abe, Prime Minister of Japan, on the occasion of the EU-Japan Summit, European Commission Press Release, July 6, 2017, http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-17-1926_en.htm.
Donald Tusk: Remarks by President Donald Tusk at the press conference of the EU-Japan summit in Brussels, July 6, 2017, http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2017/07/06-tusk-remarks-press-conference-eu-japan-summit.
counted in the hundreds: David Cay Johnston, “The Troubled Trade Deal with South Korea,” Reuters, July 31, 2012, http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/07/31/the-troubled-trade-deal-with-south-korea/.
tertiary or college education: Tables A1.1 and A1.2 Educations at a Glance 2017: OECD Indicators, http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/education/education-at-a-glance-2017_eag-2017-en#page53.
“China almost certainly is”: Author interview, July 3, 2017.
Kurt Eichenwald wrote in Newsweek: Kurt Eichenwald, “How Donald Trump Ditched U.S. Steel Workers in Favor of China,” Newsweek, Oct. 3, 2016, http://www.newsweek.com/how-donald-trump-ditched-us-steel-workers-china-505717.
“The normal mechanism”: Dean Baker, “Trump Takes Credit for Redistributing From Workers and Communities to Corporations,” Beat the Press blog, http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/trump-takes-credit-for-redistributing-from-workers-and-communities-to-corporations.
DIGITAL DELUSIONS
most expensive ship ever built: “US Navy Receives Its Most Expensive Ship Ever,” NavalToday.com, June 1, 2017, http://navaltoday.com/2017/06/01/us-navy-receives-its-most-expensive-ship-ever/.
“They just gave me this beautiful jacket”: Kalhan Rosenblatt, “President Trump Goes ‘Top Gun’ in Navy Jacket and Hat,” NBC News, March 2, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/president-trump-goes-top-gun-navy-jacket-cap-n728361.
Trump vowed to grow the Navy: Hope Hodge Seck, “Aboard Ford, Trump Promises 12 Carriers, Record Navy Growth,” Military.com., March 2, 2017, http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/03/02/aboard-ford-trump-promises-12-carriers-record-navy-growth.html.
the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute calculated: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, “SIPRI Military Expenditure Database,” https://www.sipri.org/databases/milex.
the Trump White House cited a figure of $585 billion: The White House, “Budget of the U.S. Government: A New Foundation for American Greatness,” https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/budget.pdf.
“the challenges that we face”: Associated Press, “Fact-checking What Trump Has Taken Credit For,” CBS, March 6, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-checking-what-trump-has-taken-credit-for/.
seven hundred fewer sailors: “Gerald R. Ford Class Aircraft Carrier,” Military.com., http://www.military.com/equipment/gerald-r-ford-class-aircraft-carrier.
“how you don’t build a ship”: David Martin, “New Warship ‘Poster Child for How You Don’t Build a Ship,’ Says Ex-Navy Secretary,” CBS, March 2, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uss-gerald-r-ford-poster-child-for-how-you-dont-build-a-ship-says-former-navy-secretary/.
in an interview with Time magazine: Zeke J. Miller, “Read Donald Trump’s Interview with Time on Being President,” Time, May 11, 2017, http://time.com/4775040/donald-trump-time-interview-being-president/.
They wore miniskirts: Robin Eberhardt, “Trump Shown Photo of Afghan Women in Miniskirts: Report,” The Hill, Aug. 22, 2017, http://thehill.com/policy/defense/347446-mcmaster-showed-trump-1970s-photos-of-afghan-women-wearing-miniskirts-in.
PROMISES AND PERFORMANCES
“What the hell do you have to lose?”: Tom LoBianco and Ashley Kilough, “Trump Pitches Black Voters: ‘What the Hell Do You Have to Lose,’ ” CNN, Aug. 19, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/19/politics/donald-trump-african-american-voters/index.html.
“Were you paid $1,500 to be a thug?”: Donald Trump, campaign speech in Kinston, North Carolina, Oct. 26, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?417502-1/donald-trump-campaigns-kinston-north-carolina.
C. J. Cary: Amy B. Wang, “Trump Booted a Black Man from His Rally and Called Him a ‘Thug.’ Turns Out He Is a Supporter,” Washington Post, Oct. 29, 2016.
“a lot of people don’t know”: Donald Trump, campaign speech in Charlotte, North Carolina, Oct. 26, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?417505-1/donald-trump-proposes-new-deal-urban-america.
In an uncharacteristically subdued voice: Tim Funk and Jim Morrill, “Donald Trump Promises ‘A New Deal for Black America’ at Spirit Square,” Charlotte Observer, Oct. 26, 2016, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article110546817.html.
got to speak at all: Walter M. Kimbrough, “My Statement: White House HBCU Event,” medium.com., https://medium.com
/@HipHopPrez/my-statement-white-house-hbcu-event-bf51a619194a. Feb. 27, 2017.
“their white peers”: Ibid.
“bow down”: Jason M. Breslow, “The FRONTLINE Interview: Omarosa Manigault,” Frontline, Sept. 27, 2016, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/the-frontline-interview-omarosa-manigault/.
“all of our people”: Donald Trump, Feb. 27, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/28/remarks-president-trump-signing-hbcu-executive-order.
Called “skinny”: Office of Management and Budget, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again,” https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/2018_blueprint.pdf.
“would undermine opportunity”: Jamaal Abdul-Alim, “Hartle: Trump Education Budget an ‘Assault on College Affordability,’ ” Diverse, http://diverseeducation.com/article/96740/.
“not reflective of that sentiment”: JL Carter Sr., “Trump Budget Proposal Gives HBCU Community the ‘Burning Sands’ Treatment,” HBCU Digest, March 16, 2017, https://www.hbcudigest.com/trump-budget-proposal-gives-hbcu-community-the-burning-sands-treatment/.
Johnny one-note education policy: Betsy DeVos, “Statement from Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos Following Listening Session with Historically Black College and University Leaders,” Feb. 28, 2017, https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/statement-secretary-education-betsy-devos-following-listening-session-historically-black-college-and-university-leaders.
“willfully impervious”: Stephen Henderson, “Betsy DeVos and the Twilight of Public Education,” Detroit Free Press, Dec. 3, 2016, updated Dec. 6, 2016, http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/stephen-henderson/2016/12/03/betsy-devos-education-donald-trump/94728574/.
BANKERS BEFORE BRAINS
annual disclosure report to shareholders: U.S. Securities and Exchange, Form 10-K, 2016, for Bridgepoint Education, Inc., http://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001305323/c9270e18-c8d7-4d2a-902e-622ce040a8dc.pdf.
“company was under investigation”: Patricia Cohen, “Betsy DeVos’s Hiring of For-Profit College Official Raises Impartiality Issues,” New York Times, March 17, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/business/education-for-profit-robert-eitel.html.
a host of Education Department regulations: U.S. Department of Education, Regulatory Reform Task Force Progress Report, May 2017, https://www2.ed.gov/documents/press-releases/regulatory-reform-task-force-progress-report.pdf.
Hansen sought to roll back: Annie Waldman, “For-Profit Colleges Gain Beachhead in Trump Administration,” ProPublica, March 14, 2017, https://www.propublica.org/article/for-profit-colleges-gain-beachhead-in-trump-administration.
charged a lot and delivered little: Massachusetts et al. v. United States Department of Education and Betsy DeVos, United States District Court, District of Columbia, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3889617/Filed-Complaint-Massachusetts-Et-Al-v-DeVos.pdf.
ABOVE THE LAW
Donald Trump flew to Phoenix: Donald J. Trump, Speech at Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 22, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/video/?432748-1/president-trump-criticizes-dishonest-media-defends-charlottesville-remarks-rally-phoenix.
stabbing, followed by arrests: Justin Jouvenal, “Teen Charged in Va. Gang Slaying Told Victim She’d ‘See Her in Hell,’ According to Testimony,” Washington Post, May 11, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/suspects-in-ms-13-related-killing-of-15-year-old-girl-to-appear-in-court/2017/05/10/715512e5-1941-434c-ba36-5b2805650b7b_story.html.
“not tolerate roughing up of prisoners”: Suffolk County Police Department, Twitter, July 28, 2017, https://twitter.com/SCPDHq/status/891038888315244544.
police chiefs denounced: Brian M. Rosenthal, “Police Criticize Trump for Urging Officers Not to Be ‘Too Nice’ with Suspects,” New York Times, July 29, 2017, https://twitter.com/SCPDHq/status/891038888315244544.
told The Washington Post: Phillip Rucker and Ellen Nakashima, “Trump Asked Sessions About Closing Case Against Arpaio, an Ally Since ‘Birtherism,’ ” Washington Post, Aug. 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-sessions-about-closing-case-against-arpaio-an-ally-since-birtherism/2017/08/26/15e5d7b2-8a7f-11e7-a94f-3139abce39f5_story.html.
“time and resources into these cases”: Ramsey Cox, “Sessions: Obama Abuses ‘Pardon Power,’ ” The Hill, April 24, 2014, http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/204261-sessions-obama-is-abusing-pardon-power.
WOUNDING THE VETERANS
“Making Our Military Strong Again”: https://www.whitehouse.gov/making-our-military-strong-again.
more than 2.3 million veterans: Veterans Benefits Administration Annual Benefits Report Fiscal Year 2000, Feb. 2001, https://www.benefits.va.gov/REPORTS/abr/fy2000_abr_v3.pdf.
By 2015 almost 4.2 million veterans received disability benefits: Veterans Benefits Administration 2015 Report on Compensation, https://www.benefits.va.gov/REPORTS/abr/ABR-Compensation-FY15-05092016.pdf.
Fred Trump believed his son needed discipline: Paul Schwartzman and Michael E. Miller, “Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny Was a Lot Like Candidate Donald Trump,” Washington Post, June 22, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/young-donald-trump-military-school/2016/06/22/f0b3b164-317c-11e6-8758-d58e76e11b12_story.html?utm_term=.d2519be8e498.
he could not recall which foot: Craig Whitlock, “Questions Linger About Trump’s Draft Deferments During Vietnam War,” Washington Post, July 21, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/questions-linger-about-trumps-draft-deferments-during-vietnam-war/2015/07/21/257677bc-2fdd-11e5-8353-1215475949f4_story.html?utm_term=.51db4e249c49.
“I feel like a great and very brave soldier”: Ale Russian, “Trump Boasted of Avoiding STDs While Dating: Vaginas Are ‘Landmines . . . It Is My Personal Vietnam,’ ” People, Oct. 28, 2016, http://people.com/politics/trump-boasted-of-avoiding-stds-while-dating-vaginas-are-landmines-it-was-my-personal-vietnam/.
“They’re stockbrokers that were in Vietnam”: Lois Romano, “Donald Trump, Holding All the Cards The Tower! The Team! The Money! The Future!,” Washington Post, Nov. 15, 1984, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1984/11/15/donald-trump-holding-all-the-cards-the-tower-the-team-the-money-the-future/8be79254-7793-4812-a153-f2b88e81fa54/?utm_term=.3379ae9ce06a.
“but a lot of people can’t handle it”: Daniel White, “Read Donald Trump’s Remarks to a Veterans Group,” Time, Oct. 3, 2016, http://time.com/4517279/trump-veterans-ptsd-transcript/.
“the number one thing we have to do”: Ibid.
“This will take the place of Twitter”: Donald J. Trump, speech, July 26, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4613502/realdonaldtrump-will-take-place-twitter.
“and get it taken care of”: Donald J. Trump, speech, July 11, 2016, https://www.c-span.org/video/?412560-1/donald-trump-delivers-remarks-veterans-issues.
Trump signed into law: White House website, “President Trump Signs Veterans Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act,” June 23, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2017/06/23/president-trump-signs-veterans-accountability-and-whistleblower-protection-act.
These veterans would see their income plunge: Richard Sisk, “Elderly Vets Could Face Benefits Cut Under Trump Budget,” military.com, May 24, 2017, http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/24/elderly-vets-face-benefits-cut-trump-budget.html.
seven thousand of these veterans were age eighty or older: Rep. Mark Takano website: “Rep. Mark Takano Questions VA Secretary Shulkin About Trump Budget,” May 24, 2017, http://takano.house.gov/view/rep_mark-takano-questions-va-secretary-shulkin-about-trump-budget.
“a long, stressful summer”: Leo Shane III, “VA Secretary Backs Off Plan to Cut Elderly Vets’ Benefits,” Military Times, June 14, 2017, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2017/06/14/va-secretary-backs-off-plan-to-cut-elderly-vets-benefits/.
And the budget called for eliminating the $3.5 million: Jennifer McDermott, “Advocates of Homeless Vets Fear Trump Budget Could Hurt Them,” A
ssociated Press, March 28, 2017, https://apnews.com/2c4ff33242a34530a2723ffd92fe0d98/veteran-homelessness-trumps-budget-could-hurt-efforts.
More than 70,000 of them are veterans: Harry Stein, “Trump’s Hiring Freeze Breaks Faith with America’s Veterans,” The Hill, Jan. 27, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/316467-trumps-hiring-freeze-breaks-faith-with-americas.
federal workforce was not bloated: Christopher Ingraham, “The Trump Administration Just Told a Whopper About the Size of the Federal Workforce,” Washington Post, Jan. 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/01/23/the-trump-administration-just-told-a-whopper-about-the-size-of-the-federal-workforce/?tid=ptv_rellink&utm_term=.b945ec21da32.
the Obama administration had hired more claims examiners: Stein, “Trump’s Hiring Freeze Breaks Faith with America’s Veterans.”
The annual savings would total about $20 million in 2018: Nikki Wentling, “Budget Calls for Cuts to VA Programs as Tradeoff for Extending Choice,” Stars and Stripes, May 23, 2017, http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/05/23/budget-calls-cuts-va-programs-tradeoff-extending-choice.html.
THE ROAD TO CHARLOTTESVILLE
“I am the least racist person”: Marc Fisher, “Donald Trump: ‘I Am the Least Racist Person,’ ” Washington Post, June 10, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-i-am-the-least-racist-person/2016/06/10/eac7874c-2f3a-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html?utm_term=.ad194d14092f.
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