25 “Danny Masterson Tells Us About His Life in the Church of Scientology,” Paper, July 16, 2018, http://www.papermag.com/danny-masterson-tells-us-about-his-life-in-the-church-of-scientology-1427506335.html.
26 Chris Baynes, “Trump Yanked around by Portuguese President during Vigorous Handshake,” The Independent, June 29, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/trump-handshake-portugal-president-rebelo-de-sousa-white-house-a8422741.html.
27 Charisma on Command, “Donald Trump’s Debates: 5 Mental Tricks You Didn’t Notice,” YouTube, February 8, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LR6EA91zLo.
28 Donald Trump, “Did Hillary Clinton Start the Obama Birther Movement?” Politifact, September 16, 2016, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/sep/23/donald-trump/hillary-clinton-obama-birther-fact-check/.
29 Peter Beinart, “Why Does Trump Accuse Others of the Things He Does Himself?” The Atlantic, July 14, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/the-success-of-smoke-and-mirrors/533706/.
30 “The Projector in Chief,” Psychology Today, accessed April 15, 2019, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freud-lives/201807/the-projector-in-chief.
31 Gregory Krieg and Daniella Diaz, “Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton II: The Nastiest Lines,” CNN, October 10, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/10/politics/presidential-debate-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-quotes/index.html.
32 Richard Wolffe, “The Only Thing Trump Seems to Fear Is Running Out of Fear Itself,” The Guardian, November 3, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/03/donald-trump-midterms-fear-immigration-fox-news.
33 “Remarks by President Trump at a California Sanctuary State Roundtable,” White House, United States Government, accessed April 15, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-california-sanctuary-state-roundtable/.
34 Richard E. Petty and John T. Cacioppo, “Source Factors and the Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion,” in Advances in Consumer Research, vol. 11, ed. Thomas C. Kinnear (Provo, UT: Association for Consumer Research, 1984), pp. 668–72.
35 Sean Rossman, “Trump’s Repetitive Rhetoric Is a Trick Used in Advertising,” USA Today, February 17, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/02/16/mess-fake-news-disaster-trumps-repetition-advertising-tactic/98014444/.
36 ABC News, accessed April 15, 2019, https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/president-trump-called-smart-six-times-before/story?id=52209712.
37 Nicole Ernst, Rinaldo Kühne, and Werner Wirth, “Effects of Message Repetition and Negativity on Credibility Judgments and Political Attitudes,” International Journal of Communication, accessed April 15, 2019, https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6506.
38 Jason Hreha, “How Donald Trump Won,” Medium, May 25, 2016, https://medium.com/@jhreha/trumpsuasion-the-donald-trump-persuasion-manual-9173129a7529.
39 Steven Hassan, Combating Cult Mind Control, p. 80.
40 Laurie Hanna, “Ohio Attorney Accused of Hypnotizing Female Clients to Perform Sex Acts Now Charged with Rape and Sexual Assault,” New York Daily News, April 9, 2018, https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ohio-lawyer-hypnotized-women-charged-rape-article-1.2348477.
41 “Attorney to Pay Multi-Million Dollar Judgement after Hypnotizing Clients to Take Advantage of Them Sexually,” fox8.com, October 13, 2018, https://fox8.com/2018/10/12/attorney-to-pay-multi-million-dollar-judgement-after-hypnotizing-clients-to-take-advantage-of-them-sexually/.
42 Robin Goist, “Disbarred Sheffield Attorney to Pay Multimillion-Dollar Judgment after Hypnotizing Clients for Sexual Pleasure,” cleveland.com, October 17, 2018, https://www.cleveland.com/crime/2018/10/disbarred_avon_attorney_to_pay.html.
CHAPTER SIX: The Media
1 Katie Rogers and Ron Nixon, “A Border Patrol Agent (and Frequent Fox News Guest) Has Trump’s Ear on Immigration,” The New York Times, April 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/us/politics/border-patrol-trump-brandon-judd-fox.html.
2 Jane Mayer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” The New Yorker, March 20, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house.
3 Jessica Estepa, “Report: President Trump and Sean Hannity Talk Nearly Every Weeknight,” USA Today, May 14, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/14/donald-trump-sean-hannity-speak-nearly-every-weeknight-report/607595002.
4 Marlow Stern, “Dan Rather: Fox News ‘Closest We’ve Come to State-Run Media,’ ” The Daily Beast, March 22, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/dan-rather-sounds-off-on-fox-news-the-closest-weve-come-to-state-run-media.
5 Collins, Eliza. “Les Moonves: Trump’s Run Is ‘Damn Good for CBS.’ ” Politico Magazine, February 29, 2016. https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001.
6 David Greenberg, “How Teddy Roosevelt Invented Spin,” The Atlantic, January 24, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/how-teddy-roosevelt-invented-spin/426699/.
7 Christopher B. Daly, “How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism,” The Conversation, January 28, 2019, http://theconversation.com/how-woodrow-wilsons-propaganda-machine-changed-american-journalism-76270.
8 Ibid.
9 Jon Meacham, “Why Trump Is More Father Coughlin than Franklin Roosevelt,” The New York Times, May 3, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/opinion/trump-father-coughlin-roosevelt.html.
10 Adrienne LaFrance, “Donald Trump Is Testing Twitter’s Harassment Policy,” The Atlantic, July 3, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/the-president-of-the-united-states-is-testing-twitters-harassment-policy/532497/.
11 Alfred McClung Lee and Elizabeth Briant Lee. The Fine Art of Propaganda: A Study of Father Coughlin’s Speeches (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1939).
12 Federal Communications Commission. “FCC Reports, Volume 8, March 1, 1940 to August 1, 1941,” Digital Library, U.S. Government Printing Office, August 18, 2013, https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc177289/m1/358/.
13 Thomas J. Houser, “Fairness Doctrine—An Historical Perspective,” Notre Dame Law Review 42, no. 3, article 4. February 1, 1972.
14 “In the Matter of Editorializing by Broadcast Licensees 1949,” Scribd, accessed April 15, 2019, https://www.scribd.com/document/385901903/In-the-Matter-of-Editorializing-by-Broadcast-Licensees-1949.
15 Penny Pagano, “Reagan’s Veto Kills Fairness Doctrine Bill,” Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1987, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-21-mn-8908-story.html.
16 Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg, “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” The New York Times, April 3, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html.
17 Pov, “Overview: The Rise of Talk Radio,” POV, January 18, 2005, http://archive.pov.org/thefirenexttime/overview-the-rise-of-talk-radio/.
18 David Foster Wallace, “Host,” Atlantic, March 15, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/04/host/303812/.
19 Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner, The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018).
20 Keith Doherty, “Vice President Pence Talks to Rush About the Crisis at the Border,” The Rush Limbaugh Show, January 9, 2019, https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2019/01/09/vice-president-pence-talks-to-rush-about-the-crisis-at-the-border/.
21 John MacArthur, “Unholy Trinity: Outraged at TBN’s Brazen False Teaching,” Crosswalk.com, February 24, 2010, https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/unholy-trinity-outraged-at-tbns-brazen-false-teaching-11626683.html.
22 “FAQ,” TBN, accessed April 15, 2019, https://www.tbn.org/about/faq.
23 Melanie McFarland, “Master Deceivers: When Roger Ailes Met Richard Nixon,” Salon, May 19, 2017, https://www.salon.com/2017/05/18/master-deceivers-when-roger-ailes-met-richard-nixon/.
24 Ibid.
26 Dan Friedman et al., “Roger Stone Is Relying on a Debunked Conspiracy Theory to Fight His Criminal Case,” Mother Jones, May 16, 2019. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/05/roger-stone-is-relying-on-a-debunked-conspiracy-theory-to-fight-his-criminal-case/.
27 Tim Dickinson, “Roger Ailes’ Keys to Campaign Success: ‘Pictures, Mistakes and Attacks,’ ” Rolling Stone, June 25, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/roger-ailes-keys-to-campaign-success-pictures-mistakes-and-attacks-235990/.
28 Jeff Guo, “What Roger Ailes Did to America,” Vox, May 19, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/5/19/15660888/roger-ailes-america-trump-television-fox-news.
29 Tim Dickinson, “How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory,” Rolling Stone, June 25, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-roger-ailes-built-the-fox-news-fear-factory-244652/.
30 A. J. Katz, “2018 Ratings: Fox News Is the Most-Watched Network on Cable for the Third Straight Year,” TVNewser, January 2, 2019, https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2018-ratings-fox-news-is-the-most-watched-network-on-cable-for-the-third-straight-year/387943.
31 Carolyn E. Schmitt, “ ‘Network Propaganda’ Takes a Closer Look at Media and American Politics,” The Harvard Gazette, October 26, 2018, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/network-propaganda-takes-a-closer-look-at-media-and-american-politics/.
32 Jack Nicas, “Alex Jones Said Bans Would Strengthen Him. He Was Wrong,” The New York Times, September 4, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/alex-jones-infowars-bans-traffic.html.
33 Eric Killelea, “Alex Jones’ Mis-Infowars: 7 Bat-Sh*t Conspiracy Theories,” Rolling Stone, June 25, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/alex-jones-mis-infowars-7-bat-sht-conspiracy-theories-195468/.
34 Aja Romano, “Apple’s Infowars Ban Altered an Industry Overnight—and Dealt a Blow Against Fake News,” Vox, August 6, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/6/17655516/infowars-ban-apple-youtube-facebook-spotify.
35 Killelea, “Alex Jones’ Mis-Infowars.”
36 Elizabeth Williamson, “How Alex Jones and Infowars Helped a Florida Man Torment Sandy Hook Families,” The New York Times, March 29, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/alex-jones-infowars-sandy-hook.html.
37 Michael Gold and Tyler Pager, “Sandy Hook Victim’s Father Dies in Apparent Suicide in Newtown,” The New York Times, March 25, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/nyregion/sandy-hook-father.html.
38 Sarah Posner, Kevin Drum, Hannah Levintova, Oliver Milman, James West, and Rosa Furneaux, “How Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists,” Mother Jones, June 23, 2017, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/stephen-bannon-donald-trump-alt-right-breitbart-news/.
39 Timothy B. Lee, “This Video of Ronald Reagan Shows How Much the Republican Party Has Changed on Immigration,” Vox, January 29, 2017, https://www.vox.com/2017/1/29/14429368/reagan-bush-immigration-attitude.
40 Mark Achbar, Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (New York: Black Rose Books, 1995).
41 Noam Chomsky, “Noam Chomsky: The Five Filters of the Mass Media,” Public Reading Rooms, June 13, 2018, https://prruk.org/noam-chomsky-the-five-filters-of-the-mass-media-machine/.
42 Wallace, “Host.”
43 WebFX, “The 6 Companies That Own (Almost) All Media [Infographic],” WebFX, July 7, 2015, https://www.webfx.com/data/the-6-companies-that-own-almost-all-media/.
44 “Clear Channel Communications,” SourceWatch, accessed April 15, 2019, https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clear_Channel_Communications.
45 “Sinclair Broadcast Group,” SourceWatch, accessed April 15, 2019, https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group.
46 “Telecommunications Act of 1996,” Federal Communications Commission, December 30, 2014, https://www.fcc.gov/general/telecommunications-act-1996.
47 Ibid.
48 Jacey Fortin and Jonah Engel Bromwich, “Sinclair Made Dozens of Local News Anchors Recite the Same Script,” The New York Times, April 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/business/media/sinclair-news-anchors-script.html.
49 Rebecca Savransky, “Dan Rather Rips Sinclair over Media Bias Promo: It’s Not Journalism, It’s Propaganda,” The Hill, April 3, 2018, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/381409-dan-rather-rips-sinclair-over-media-bias-promos-its-not-journalism-its.
50 Ibid.
51 Michael Farrell, “Tribune Media Shareholders Approve Nexstar Deal,” Broadcasting & Cable, March 12, 2019, https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/tribune-media-shareholders-approve-nexstar-deal.
52 Alexis C. Madrigal, “When Did TV Watching Peak?” Atlantic, May 30, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/05/when-did-tv-watching-peak/561464/.
53 Frederick Clarkson, “Behind the Times.” FAIR, August 1, 1987. https://fair.org/extra/behind-the-times/.
54 Alex Shephard, “Fox News Is Officially Trump TV,” The New Republic, November 6, 2018, https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152050/fox-news-officially-trump-tv.
55 “Fox News Drops ‘Fair and Balanced’ Slogan Without Announcement,” BBC News, June 15, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40289497.
56 Alex Shephard, “Fox News Is Officially Trump TV,” The New Republic, November 6, 2018, https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152050/fox-news-officially-trump-tv.
57 Mayer, “The Making of the Fox News White House.”
58 Dorothy Wickenden, “Jane Mayer on the Revolving Door Between Fox News and the White House,” The New Yorker, March 8, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/jane-mayer-on-the-revolving-door-between-fox-news-and-the-white-house.
59 Jeet Heer, “The Breitbartization of Fox News,” The New Republic, March 22, 2018, https://newrepublic.com/article/147605/breitbartization-fox-news.
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Influencers
1 Tom McCarthy, “Trump’s Cabinet Picks: Here Are All of the Appointments So Far,” The Guardian, January 3, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/09/donald-trump-administration-cabinet-picks-so-far.
2 William S. Lind, “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation,” Lind, accessed April 19, 2019, https://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/lind/the-changing-face-of-war-into-the-fourth-generation.html.
3 James Scaminaci III, “Battle Without Bullets: The Christian Right and Fourth Generation Warfare,” The Public Eye, summer 2017, https://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/08/16/battle-without-bullets-the-christian-right-and-fourth-generation-warfare.
4 Frederick Clarkson, “A Manual to Restore a Christian Nation That Never Was,” The Public Eye, winter 2018, https://www.politicalresearch.org/2018/01/19/a-manual-to-restore-a-christian-nation-that-never-was/.
5 Jon Wiener, “Jane Mayer: Dark Money and Donald Trump,” The Nation, February 22, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/jane-mayer-dark-money-and-donald-trump/.
6 Jane Mayer, “How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump,” The New Yorker, September 24, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump.
7 Ibid.
8 Tim Hains, “Malcolm Nance: Russians ‘Hacked the Mindset of the American People,’ Could Throw 2018 Midterms Into Doubt,” RealClear Politics, accessed April 20, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/02/07/malcolm_nance_russians_hacked_the_mindset_of_the_american_people.html.
9 Will Bunch, “This Prominent Penn Prof Didn’t Believe Russia Got Trump Elected. Here’s What Changed Her Mind,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 9, 2018, https://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/trump-won-2016-election-russian-hacking-kathleen-hall-jamieson-book-20181009.html.
10 Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President: What We Don’t, Can’t, and
Do Know (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
11 Jane Mayer, “How Russia Helped Swing the Election for Trump.”
12 Martin Matishak, Andrew Restuccia, Louis Nelson, and Eric Geller, “What We Know About Russia’s Election Hacking,” Politico Magazine, July 19, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/18/russia-election-hacking-trump-putin-698087.
13 Julia Manchester, “Author: Clinton’s Loss in Wisconsin Emblematic of Dem Party’s ‘Abandonment’ of Working Class,” The Hill, July 27, 2018, https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/399167-author-clintons-loss-in-wisconsin-emblematic-of-dem-partys-abandonment-of.
14 Gabriel Debenedetti, Glenn Thrush, Kyle Cheney, and Seung Min Kim, “How Clinton Lost Michigan—and Blew the Election,” Politico Magazine, December 14, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/michigan-hillary-clinton-trump-232547.
15 Noah Bookbinder, “Mueller’s Damning Report,” The New York Times, April 18, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/mueller-report-trump.html.
16 Rachel Frazin, “Fox’s Napolitano: Mueller Report ‘Might Be Enough to Prosecute’ Trump,” The Hill, April 19, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/media/439770-foxs-napolitano-mueller-report-might-be-enough-to-prosecute-trump.
17 DOJ Alumni. “Statement by Former Federal Prosecutors.” Medium, May 6, 2019. https://medium.com/@dojalumni/statement-by-former-federal-prosecutors-8ab7691c2aa1.
18 Andrew Prokop, “All of Robert Mueller’s Indictments and Plea Deals in the Russia Investigation,” Vox, March 22, 2019, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/2/20/17031772/mueller-indictments-grand-jury.
19 Luke Harding et al., “The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow,” Politico Magazine, November 19, 2017, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842.
20 Ilan Ben-Meir, “That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 on an Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy in 1987,” BuzzFeed News, January 12, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ilanbenmeir/that-time-trump-spent-nearly-100000-on-an-ad-criticizing-us#.xvmvrrMvE.
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