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Introduction
1 Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish, “$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Donald Trump,” The New York Times, March 15, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.html.
2 “The Guy Who thought Up ‘the Wall’ Says Trump Should Shut Government to Fund It,” Bloomberg.com, accessed April 14, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-20/the-guy-who-thought-up-the-wall-says-trump-should-shut-government-to-fund-it.
3 Stuart Anderson, “Where the Idea for Donald Trump’s Wall Came From,” Forbes, January 10, 2019, https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/01/04/where-the-idea-for-donald-trumps-wall-came-from/#16fe3ebe4415.
4 Editorial Board, “The Cult of Trump,” The New York Times, June 7, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/07/opinion/trump-republican-party.html.
5 Tess Bonn, “Dem Lawmaker Compares GOP to ‘Religious Cult,’ ” The Hill, March 6, 2019, https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/432834-dem-lawmaker-compares-republican-party-to-religious-cult.
CHAPTER ONE: What Is a Cult?
1 Nathaniel Rakich, “Two Years In, Turnover in Trump’s Cabinet Is Still Historically High,” FiveThirtyEight, January 8, 2019, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/two-years-in-turnover-in-trumps-cabinet-is-still-historically-high/.
2 John Eligon, “Hate Crimes Increase for the Third Consecutive Year, F.B.I. Reports,” The New York Times, November 13, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/hate-crimes-fbi-2017.html.
3 “How Scott Adams Got Hypnotized by Trump,” Bloomberg.com, accessed April 13, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump.
4 Charles M. Blow, “The Commander of Fear.” The New York Times, August 29, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/29/opinion/trump-fear.html.
5 “Trade Regulation Rule on Disclosure Requirements and Prohibitions Concerning Franchising and Business Opportunity Ventures—16 CFR Part 436,” Federal Trade Commission, July 5, 2013, https://www.ftc.gov/policy/federal-register-notices/trade-regulation-rule-disclosure-requirements-and-prohibitions.
6 Tony Ortega, “NXIVM: Actress Allison Mack Pleads Guilty—‘I Was Lost and Wanted a Community,’ ” The Underground Bunker, April 8, 2019, https://tonyortega.org/2019/04/08/nxivm-actress-allison-mack-pleads-guilty-i-was-lost-and-wanted-a-community/.
7 Pratkanis, A. R., and E. Aronson, Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion (New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1991), pp. 240–249.
CHAPTER TWO: The Making of a Cult Leader
1 Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “Donald Trump’s False Comments Connecting Mexican Immigrants and Crime,” The Washington Post, July 8, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/07/08/donald-trumps-false-comments-connecting-mexican-immigrants-and-crime/?utm_term=.7a64fb2cd9b7.
2 Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher. Trump Revealed: The Definitive Biography of the 45th President (New York: Scribner, 2017).
3 Ibid., p. 32.
4 Caroline Mortimer, “Donald Trump’s Mother Asked: ‘What Kind of Son Have I Created?’ ” Independent, November 4, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-mother-mary-relationship-what-have-i-created-psychology-macleod-fred-trump-a8037181.html.
5 Michael Kruse, “The Mystery of Mary Trump,” Politico Magazine, accessed April 14, 2019, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/03/mary-macleod-trump-donald-trump-mother-biography-mom-immigrant-scotland-215779.
6 Ibid.
7 Shane Snow, “Trump Insights: Appearance,” Hatch Institute, April 27, 2017, https://thehatchinstitute.org/all-stories/2017/5/1/trump-tales-vol-1.
8 Harry Hurt, The Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump (New York: Norton, 1993).
9 Kruse, “The Mystery of Mary Trump.”
10 Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal (New York: Ballantine Books, 1987).
11 James Walsh, “Shoko Asahara: The Making of a Messiah,” Time, April 3, 1995, http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,982749-1,00.html.
12 Ailsa Chang, “This Is Where Donald Trump Played by the Rules and Learned to Beat the Game,” NPR, November 10, 2015, https://www.npr.org/2015/11/10/455331251/this-is-where-donald-trump-played-by-the-rules-and-learned-to-beat-the-game.
13 Paul Schwartzman and Michael E. Miller, “Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny Was a Lot like Candidate Donald Trump,” The 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=.d14578a0ff49.
14 Paul Matzko, “The Pastor Who Helps Explain Donald Trump,” The Gospel Coalition, January 14, 2019, https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/surge-piety-norman-vincent-peale/.
15 “Does Trump Display the Stereotypical Profile of a Cult Leader?” Freedom of Mind Resource Center, December 13, 2018, https://freedomofmind.com/does-trump-display-the-stereotypical-profile-of-a-cult-leader/.
16 “Charles Manson: Master Manipulator, Even as a Child,” NPR, August 4, 2013, https://www.npr.org/2013/08/04/206652873/charles-manson-master-manipulator-even-as-a-child.
17 Susan Brinkmann, “What’s Wrong with Norman Vincent Peale?” Women of Grace (blog), February 2, 2016, https://www.womenofgrace.com/blog/?p=47645.
18 Robert L. Park, Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010).
19 Gwenda Blair, Adam Wren, David Fontana, and Renato Mariotti, “How Norman Vincent Peale Taught Donald Trump to Worship Himself,” Politico Magazine, October 6, 2015, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/10/donald-trump-2016-norman-vincent-peale-213220#ixzz4Mt5Se1uO%C2%A0.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid.
22 Eugene Scott, “Donald Trump Is Not an Active Member, Church Says—CNNPolitics,” CNN, August 28, 2015, https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/28/politics/donald-trump-church-member/index.html.
23 Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed.
24 Paul Schwartzman and Michael E. Miller, “Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny Was a Lot like Candidate Donald Trump,” The 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.
25 Trump and Schwartz, The Art of the Deal.
26 Schwartzman and Miller, “Confident. Incorrigible.”
27 David Shields, “Donald Trump’s Father Is the Root of His Rage,” Salon.com, October 7, 2018, https://www.salon.com/2018/10/06donald-trumps-father-is-the-root-of-his-rage/.
28 Sophie Kozub, “Inside Trump’s Days at Fordham,” The Observer, January 26, 2017, https://fordhamobserver.com/30994/news/inside-trumps-days-at-fordham/.
29 William E. Geist, “The Expanding Empire of Donald Trump,” The New York Times Magazine, April 8, 1984, https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/08/magazine/the-expanding-empire-of-donald-trump.html?scp=1&sq=%22THE%2BEXPANDING%2BEMPIRE%2BOF%2BDONALD%2BTRUMP%22&st=cse&pagewanted=all.
30 Philip Bump, “In 1927, Donald Trump’s Father Was Arrested after a Klan Riot in Queens,” The Washington Post, February 29, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/28/in-1927-donald-trumps-father-was-arrested-after-a-klan-riot-in-queens/?utm_term=.d797588a016a.
31 “1927 News Report: Donald Trump’s Dad Arrested in KKK Brawl with Cops,” Boing Boing, August 6, 2018, https://boingboing.net/2015/09/09/1927-news-report-donald-trump.html.
32 Will Kaufman, “Woody Guthrie, ‘Old Man Trump’ and a Real Estate Empire’s Racist Foundations,” The Conversation, October 3, 2018, https://theconversation.com/woody-guthrie-old-man-trump-and-a-real-estate-empires-racist-foundations-53026.
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33 Amanda Petrusich, “A Story About Fred Trump and Woody Guthrie for the Midterm Elections,” The New Yorker, November 6, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-story-about-fred-trump-and-woody-guthrie-for-the-midterm-elections.
34 Thomas B. Edsall, “Trump Wants America to Revert to the Queens of His Childhood,” The New York Times, April 12, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/12/opinion/trump-queens-childhood-america.html.
35 Marie Brenner, “How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America,” The Hive, Vanity Fair, June 30, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship.
36 Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, p. 64.
37 David Von Drehle, “Trump’s Résumé Is Rife with Mob Connections,” The Washington Post, August 10, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-trumps-mob-connections-a-coincidence-fuhgeddaboudit/2018/08/10/24b62e2c-9cad-11e8-843b-36e177f3081c_story.html?utm_term=.3be54df843e6.
38 David Cay Johnston, The Making of Donald Trump (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Melville House, 2017).
39 David Cay Johnston, Adam Wren, David Fontana, and Renato Mariotti, “Just What Were Donald Trump’s Ties to the Mob?” Politico Magazine, May 22, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/donald-trump-2016-mob-organized-crime-213910.
40 David Smith, “Donald Trump: The Making of a Narcissist,” The Guardian, July 16, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/16/donald-trump-narcissist-profile.
41 Trump and Schwartz, The Art of the Deal.
42 Dan Alexander, “Why Is WWE Listed as the Trump Foundation’s Biggest Donor?” Forbes, April 20, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2017/04/20/why-is-wwe-listed-as-the-trump-foundations-biggest-donor/#3e57b3f85f90.
43 “Does WWE Explain Donald Trump’s Rise to Power?” Spectator USA, July 5, 2018, https://spectator.us/does-wwe-explain-donald-trumps-rise-to-power/.
44 Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig, “Decade in the Red: Trump Tax Figures Show Over $1 Billion in Business Losses.” The New York Times, May 7, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html.
45 Rupert Neate, “Trump and Atlantic City: The Lessons behind the Demise of His Casino Empire,” The Guardian, September 2, 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/02/donald-trump-atlantic-city-casinos-taj-mahal-plaza-bankruptcy.
46 Patrick Radden Keefe, “How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success,” The New Yorker, February 28, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/07/how-mark-burnett-resurrected-donald-trump-as-an-icon-of-american-success.
47 Ibid.
48 Helaine Olen, “Trump, Carson, and Bush Have All Benefited from Get-Rich-Quick Companies That Prey on the Desperate,” Slate, October 12, 2015, https://slate.com/business/2015/10/trump-carson-bush-all-benefited-from-multilevel-marketing-schemes.html.
49 Ike Swetlitz, “Donald Trump and the Vitamin Company That Went Bust,” STAT, April 19, 2018, https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/02/donald-trump-vitamin-company/.
50 TrumpNetwork411, “The Trump Network—Donald Trump and Ideal Health Team Up,” YouTube, December 6, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9AhOo3Fj0&feature=youtu.be&t=411.
51 Swetlitz, “Donald Trump and the Vitamin Company That Went Bust.”
52 Ana Swanson, “The Trump Network Sought to Make People Rich, but Left behind Disappointment,” The Washington Post, March 23, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/23/the-trump-network-sought-to-make-people-rich-but-left-behind-disappointment/?utm_term=.b1985d499893.
53 Trump Network, “NBC’s The Apprentice Leads Candidates to The Trump Network,” PR Newswire, June 30, 2018, https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nbcs-the-apprentice-leads-candidates-to-the-trump-network-111679704.html.
54 Abby Haglage and Tim Mak, “Trump Vitamins Were Fortified with B.S,” The Daily Beast, May 25, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-vitamins-were-fortified-with-bs.
55 Maria Dinzeo, “California High Court Rules Colleges Must Protect Students,” CNS, March 23, 2018, https://www.courthousenews.com/california-high-court-rules-colleges-must-protect-students/.
CHAPTER THREE: The Cult Leader Profile
1 Raj Persaud, “Just How Narcissistic Are US Presidents? Does Ego Rule?” Psychology Today, accessed April 14, 2019, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/slightly-blighty/201509/just-how-narcissistic-are-us-presidents-does-ego-rule.
2 Rich Morin, “The Most Narcissistic U.S. Presidents,” Pew Research Center, February 7, 2014, http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/14/the-most-narcissistic-u-s-presidents/.
3 “The Double-Edged Sword of Grandiose Narcissism,” SAGE Journal, accessed April 14, 2019, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613491970.
4 Mila Goldner-Vukov and Laurie-Jo Moore, “Malignant Narcissism: From Fairy Tales to Harsh Reality,” Psychiatria Danubina, U.S. National Library of Medicine, September 2010, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20856182.
5 Mark F. Lenzenweger, John F. Clarkin, Eve Caligor, Nicole M. Cain, and Otto F. Kernberg, “Malignant Narcissism in Relation to Clinical Change in Borderline Personality Disorder: An Exploratory Study,” Psychopathology, U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2018, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30184541.
6 “Narcissistic Personality Disorder,” HelpGuide.org, March 21, 2019, https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder.htm/.
7 Philip Zimbardo and Rosemary Sword, “Unbridled and Extreme Present Hedonism,” in Lee, Bandy X. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President: Updated and Expanded with New Essays {New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2019).
8 Master Speaks, May 17, 1973 (a publication of Unification Church of transcribed speeches of Sun Myung Moon).
9 Master Speaks, March 24, 1974.
10 “Affidavit of Deborah Layton Blakey (Text),” Alternative Considerations of Jonestown Peoples Temple, accessed April 14, 2019, https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=18599.
11 Aaron Blake, “19 Things Donald Trump Knows Better than Anyone Else, According to Donald Trump,” The Washington Post, October 4, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/04/17-issues-that-donald-trump-knows-better-than-anyone-else-according-to-donald-trump/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.e1f1fe1e2498.
12 “Narcissistic Personality Disorder,” HelpGuide.org, March 21, 2019, https://www.helpguide.org/articles/mental-disorders/narcissistic-personality-disorder.htm/.
13 Amy Zimmerman, “A Top NXIVM Sex Cult Recruiter Comes Forward, Says Founder ‘Messed with the Wrong Person,’ ” The Daily Beast, May 27, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-top-nxivm-sex-cult-recruiter-comes-forward-he-messed-with-the-wrong-person.
14 Jon Atack, personal interview, January 19, 2019.
15 Dominic Rushe, “ ‘I’m Really Rich’: Donald Trump Claims $9bn Fortune during Campaign Launch,” Guardian, June 16, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/16/donald-trump-reveals-net-worth-presidential-campaign-launch.
16 Ibid.
17 Leon F. Seltzer, “This Is What Really Makes Narcissists Tick,” Psychology Today, accessed April 14, 2019, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/evolution-the-self/201507/is-what-really-makes-narcissists-tick.
18 “DSM-5: The Ten Personality Disorders: Cluster B,” Mental Help DSM5: The Ten Personality Disorders Cluster B Comments, accessed April 14, 2019, https://www.mentalhelp.net/articles/dsm-5-the-ten-personality-disorders-cluster-b/.
19 Jodi M. Lane and Stephen Kent, “Malignant Narcissism, L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology’s Policies of Narcissistic Rage,” Scientology Books and Media, June 18, 2014, Scicrit, https://scicrit.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/malignant-narcissim-l-ron-hubbard-and-scientologys-policies-of-narcisstic-rage/.
20 “ ‘Pawns of His Grandiosity’: Molly Kronberg Tells How Lyndon LaRouche Controls His Cult,” accessed April 14, 2019, http://www.lyndonlarouche.org/molly-kronbe
rg.htm.
21 Lyndon LaRouche, The Power of Reason, self-published, 1988, p. 76.
22 Emily Jane Fox, “Michael Cohen Would Take a Bullet for Donald Trump,” The Hive, Vanity Fair, September 6, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/michael-cohen-interview-donald-trump.
23 Ian H. Robertson, “Personality and Potential Nuclear Confrontation,” Psychology Today, accessed April 14, 2019, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-stress-test/201708/personality-and-potential-nuclear-confrontation.
24 Roxanne Roberts, “I Sat Next to Donald Trump at the Infamous 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner,” The Washington Post, April 28, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/i-sat-next-to-donald-trump-at-the-infamous-2011-white-house-correspondents-dinner/2016/04/27/5cf46b74-0bea-11e6-8ab8-9ad050f76d7d_story.html?utm_term=.91ec227df021.
25 Carolyn Banks, “Commentary: Why Trump Wants to Rid America of Any Trace of Obama,” Austin American-Statesman, September 22, 2018, https://www.statesman.com/news/20171012/commentary-why-trump-wants-to-rid-america-of-any-trace-of-obama.
26 Jodi Lane and Stephen Kent, “Malignant Narcissism, L. Ron Hubbard, and Scientology’s Policies of Narcissistic Rage.”
27 “Moon to Be Released From Danbury Prison,” The New York Times Archive, July 3, 1985, https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/03/nyregion/moon-to-be-released-from-danbury-prison.html.
28 Steve Reilly, “USA TODAY Exclusive: Hundreds Allege Donald Trump Doesn’t Pay His Bills,” USA Today, April 25, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/09/donald-trump-unpaid-bills-republican-president-laswuits/85297274/.
29 Julie Bosman, Patricia Cohen, and Julie Turkewitz, “Federal Shutdown’s Uneven Toll: Some Americans Are Devastated, Others Oblivious,” The New York Times, January 11, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/business/federal-shutdown-divide.html.
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