132. Abadi, “Former Trump adviser says in email that he ‘arranged for Ivanka to sit in Putin’s private chair’ during a trip to Moscow.”
133. Michael Kranish et al., “Michael Cohen, once at pinnacle of Trump’s world, now poses threat to it,” Washington Post, April 21, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/michael-cohen-once-at-pinnacle-of-trumps-world-now-poses-threat-to-it/2018/04/21/efb1c9c6-3cd4-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.50d4d5024384.
134. Ibid.
135. Pete Madden and Meghan Keneally, “Soviet-born Donald Trump adviser Felix Sater: ‘Send ’em to jail’ if Robert Mueller finds collusion,” ABC News, March 16, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/soviet-born-donald-trump-adviser-felix-sater-send/story?id=53790920.
136. Ibid.
137. Alec Luhn, “15 years of Vladimir Putin: 15 ways he has changed Russia and the world,” Guardian, May 6, 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/06/vladimir-putin-15-ways-he-changed-russia-world.
138. Marial Synan, “What is the largest country in the world?” The History Channel (retrieved September 10, 2018), https://www.history.com/news/what-is-the-largest-country-in-the-world.
139. Linda Qiu, “Does Vladimir Putin kill journalists?”, PolitiFact, January 2016, https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2016/jan/04/does-vladimir-putin-kill-journalists/.
140. Ibid.
141. “Vladimir Putin condemns ‘tragedy’ of Soviet-era political repression,” Irish Independent, October 30,2017, https://www.independent.ie/world-news/vladimir-putin-condemns-tragedy-of-sovietera-political-repression-36274601.html.
142. Moritz Pfeiffer, “Confessions of a Witness,” East European Film Bulletin 86 (Summer 2018), https://eefb.org/perspectives/vitaly-manskys-putins-witnesses-svideteli-putina-2018/; Sarah Rainsford, “Boris Nemtsov murder: Five Chechens jailed for attack,” BBC News, July 13, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40592248.
143. Ibid., BBC News; Ivan Nechepurenko, “5 Who Killed Boris Nemtsov, Putin Foe, Sentenced in Russia,” New York Times, July 13, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/world/europe/boris-nemtsov-putin-russia.html; David M. Herszenhorn, “Chechen’s Ties to Putin Are Questioned Amid Nemtsov Case,” New York Times, March 9, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/world/europe/chechens-ties-to-putin-are-questioned-amid-nemtsov-murder-case.html.
144. Max Bearak, “Who did Manafort and Gates work for in Ukraine and Russia?” Washington Post, October 30, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.comnews/worldviews/wp/2017/10/30/who-did-manafort-and-gates-work-for-in-ukraine-and-russia/?utm_term=.e6dcff68d831; Sophie Pinkham, “How annexing Crimea allowed Putin to claim he had made Russia great again,” Guardian, March 22, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/22/annexing-crimea-putin-make-russia-great-again.
145. Edward Hunter Christie, “Sanctions after Crimea: Have they worked?” NATO Review, 2015, https://www.nato.int/docu/review/2015/russia/sanctions-after-crimea-have-they-worked/EN/index.htm.
146. John W. Schoen, “U.S. sanctions have taken a big bite out of Russia’s economy,” CNBC, July 25, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/25/us-sanctions-have-taken-a-big-bite-out-of-russias-economy.html.
147. Ibid.
148. Layne et al., “Special Report: Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings, records show.”
149. Eileen Kinsella, “Why Did the Firm Behind the Trump-Russia Dossier Implicate Art Collector Dmitry Rybolovlev in Its Testimony?” ArtNet News, January 23, 2018, https://news.artnet.com/art-world/why-did-fusion-gps-drag-russian-billionaire-dmitry-rybolovlev-into-trump-testimony-1204088.
150. Marcus Warren, “Putin ‘rigged Miss Russia contest as policewoman’s secret admirer.’ ”
151. Ibid.
152. Ibid.
153. Braden Kell, “Behind The ‘Miss’ Fire Booted Beauty’s Moscow’s Mysteries,” New York Post, September 29, 2002, https://nypost.com/2002/09/29/behind-the-miss-fire-booted-beautys-moscow-mysteries/.
154. Ibid.
155. Ibid.
156. Chan, “Deposed Miss Couldn’t Give The Time.”
157. Ibid.
158. Ibid.
159. Ibid.
160. Ursula Hirschkorn, “Death threats to drug busts: Top ten dethroned beauty queens,” Daily Mail, November 29, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1231484/Death-threats-drug-busts-Top-dethroned-beauty-queens.html.
161. Daniel Tovrov, “Miss Universe Scandal: Could Leila Lopes Lose the Crown?” International Business Times, September 18, 2011, https://www.ibtimes.com/miss-universe-scandal-could-leila-lopes-lose-crown-314898.
162. The Howard Stern Show, YouTube (at 3:10), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_ysGc-Aas&t=.
163. Ibid.
164. Ibid.
165. Aletha Adu, “Russian Miss Universe slams Western media for ‘harassing her to DERAIL Trump’s campaign,’ ” Express, November 10, 2016, https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/730704/Russia-Miss-Universe-Vladimir-Putin-Donald-Trump-Western-media-President-Oxana-Fedorova.
166. Ibid.
167. Pomah Kytysob, “Sellers of Vodka and Toilets Became Kings of Real Estate of St. Petersburg,” Forbes Russia, February 13, 2013, http://www.forbes.ru/kompanii/potrebitelskii-rynok/234215-kak-prodavtsy-vodki-i-unitazov-stali-korolyami-nedvizhimosti-sa.
168. Ibid.
169. Ibid.
170. Ibid.
171. “Russia Gangster knocks up Miss Universe.”
172. Ibid.
173. France, “Pageant coordinator quoted as saying Trump picks finalists.”
174. Ibid.
175. 47 U.S.C. § 509, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/509.
176. Ibid.
177. Gary Kasparov, “Putin’s Sochi and Hitler’s Berlin: The Love Affair Between Dictators and the Olympic Games,” Daily Beast, February 7, 2014, https://www.thedailybeast.com/putins-sochi-and-hitlers-berlin-the-love-affair-between-dictators-and-the-olympic-games.
178. Bill Powell, “Donald Trump Associate Felix Sater Is Linked to the Mob and the CIA—What’s His Role in the Russia Investigation?” Newsweek, June 7, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/2018/06/15/sater-963255.html.
179. Dreyfuss, “Who Is Felix Sater, and Why Is Donald Trump So Afraid of Him?”
180. Rice, “The Original Russia Connection.”
181. Helderman and Hamburger, “Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump”; Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Julian Borger, “Felix Sater: the enigmatic businessman at the heart of the Trump-Russia inquiry,” Guardian, August 31, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/31/felix-sater-trump-russia-investigation.
182. Madden and Keneally, “Soviet-born Donald Trump adviser Felix Sater.”
183. Paul Wood, “Forget Charlottesville—Russia is still the true Trump scandal,” Spectator, August 19, 2017, https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal/.
184. Ibid.
185. Ibid.
186. Ibid.
187. Ben Wieder and Kevin G. Hall, “Colorful Trump associate Sater will cooperate with Feinstein request,” McClatchy, November 15, 2017, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article184887318.html.
188. Rice, “The Original Russia Connection.”
189. Nguyen, “Eric Trump Reportedly Bragged About Access to $100 million in Russian Money.”
190. Ibid.
191. Mark Moore, “Eric Trump said dad’s golf courses funded by Russia: report,” New York Post, May 7, 2017, https://nypost.com/2017/05/07/eric-trump-said-dads-golf-courses-were-funded-by-russia.
192. Nguyen, “Eric Trump Reportedly Bragged About Access to $100 million in Russian Money.”
193. Layne et al., “Special Report: Russian elite invested nearly $100 million in Trump buildings, records show.”
CHAPTER TWO: TRUMP AND THE AGALAROVS
1. Noah Kirsch, “The Full Exclusive Interview: Emin Agalarov, Russian Scion at Center of Trump
Controversy,” Forbes, July 12, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/noahkirsch/2017/07/12/the-full-exclusive-interview-emin-agalarov-russian-donald-trump-jr-controversy/#40ccf15e69d0.
2. Andrew Roth, “The Man Who Drives Trump’s Russia Connection,” Washington Post, July 22, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/the-man-who-drives-trumps-russia-connection/2017/07/21/43485a0e-6c98-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html?utm_term=.35742516ba1f.
3. David Corn and Hannah Levintova, “How Did an Alleged Russian Mobster End Up on Trump’s Red Carpet?” Mother Jones, September 14, 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/09/trump-russian-mobster-tokhtakhounov-miss-universe-moscow/; Nataliya Vasilyeva, “Russian Real Estate Deals Never Materialized for Trump,” Morning Journal/Associated Press, March 4, 2017, http://www.morningjournal.com/article/MJ/20170304/NEWS/170309725.
4. “2012. EMIN - AMOR ft. Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo (Official Video),” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-O8XRo60_E.
5. Kirsch, “The Full Exclusive Interview.”
6. Mark Hosenball and Jonathan Landay, “U.S. Lawmakers Question Businessman at 2016 Trump Tower Meeting: Sources,” Reuters, December 26, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-kaveladze/u-s-lawmakers-question-businessman-at-2016-trump-tower-meeting-sources-idUSKBN1EL009; Isaac Chotiner, “What Happened in Vegas,” Slate, March 15, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/david-corn-and-michael-isikoff-on-their-las-vegas-revelations.html; Jon Swaine and Shaun Walker, “Trump in Moscow: What Happened at Miss Universe in 2013,” Guardian, September 18, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/sep/18/trump-in-moscow-what-happened-at-miss-universe-in-2013.
7. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”
8. Ibid.
9. Raymond Bonner, “Laundering of Money Seen as ‘Easy,’ ” New York Times, November 29, 2000, https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/business/laundering-of-money-seen-as-easy.html?referer=https://t.co/kVU9K2qVHO%3famp=1.
10. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”
11. Yulya Alferova, “Trump and Agalarov Agree,” LiveJournal, June 17, 2013, https://alferova-yulya.livejournal.com/169017.html.
12. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”
13. Ibid.
14. David Corn and Michael Isikoff, “What Happened in Moscow: The Inside Story of How Trump’s Obsession with Putin Began,” Mother Jones, March 8, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/russian-connection-what-happened-moscow-inside-story-trump-obsession-putin-david-corn-michael-isikoff/.
15. Mollie Simon and Jim Zarroli, “Timeline of Events: The 2013 Miss Universe Pageant,” NPR, July 17, 2017, https://www.npr.org/2017/07/17/536714404/timeline-of-events-the-2013-miss-universe-pageant.
16. Michael Crowley, “When Donald Trump Brought Miss Universe to Moscow,” Politico, May 15, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-russia-moscow-miss-universe-223173.
17. Cheyenne Roundtree, “Donald Trump hand-picked finalists for Miss Universe from countries he targeted to swing deals and hosted the contest in cities where he already had a financial stake, former contestants claim,” Daily Mail, February 19, 2018, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5409329/Trump-chose-Miss-Universe-finalists-based-business.html; Jeffrey Toobin, “Trump’s Miss Universe Gambit,” New Yorker, February 26, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/26/trumps-miss-universe-gambit?reload=true.
18. Roundtree, “Donald Trump hand-picked.”
19. Toobin, “Trump’s Miss Universe Gambit.”
20. Katie Rogers, “How Trump’s Miss Universe in Russia Became Ensnared in a Political Inquiry,” New York Times, July 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/us/politics/how-trumps-miss-universe-in-russia-became-ensnared-in-a-political-inquiry.html; Shane Harris et al., “In a Personal Letter, Trump Invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant,” Washington Post, March 3, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/in-a-personal-letter-trump-invited-putin-to-the-2013-miss-universe-pageant/2018/03/09/a3404358-23d2-11e8-a589-763893265565_story.html?utm_term=.45f15b7697a4.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Tea Party Patriots, American Conservative Union, “CPAC 2014—Donald Trump, Chairman and President of the Trump Organization, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 6, 2014,” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nzaemPHSU0.
28. Michal Kranz, “Trump Received a Mysterious Letter from Putin in 2013—and No One Knows What Was in It,” Business Insider, March 8, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-2013-letter-from-putin-2018-3; Harris et al., “In a Personal Letter, Trump Invited Putin”; Kevin Sullivan, “Trump’s Foreign Network,” Washington Post, January 13, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/world/2017/01/13/trumps-foreign-network/?utm_term=.9e608b8d9af9.
29. Kranz, “Trump Received a Mysterious Letter from Putin in 2013.”
30. Erica R. Hendry, “The Many Different Ways Trump Has Described Putin and Russian Election Interference,” PBS, July 16, 2018, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-many-different-ways-trump-has-described-putin-and-russian-election-interference.
31. Tom Arnold (@TomArnold), “Wrong. Putin called Trump at Moscow Ritz Nov 2013. Trump put on speakerphone for everyone to hear. Putin congratulated Trump on Trump Tower Moscow & encouraged Trump to run for President & offered Russia’s support. It’s all on tape dude. #MuellerIsComing,” Twitter, February 22, 2018, 4:28 a.m., https://twitter.com/tomarnold/status/966832062132080642?lang=en.
32. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”
33. Svetlana Reiter, “Exclusive: Putin’s Ex-Wife Linked to Multi-Million-Dollar Property Business,” Reuters, May 19, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-foundation-idUSKCN18F0QX?u.
34. Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (New York: Twelve, 2018).
35. Vicky Ward, “Michael Cohen Speaks: Trump Exec Admits Russia Dealings Were Gross, but Not Illegal,” Huffington Post, August 30, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-trump-lawyer-russia_us_59a71a28e4b010ca2899e933.
36. Kranz, “Trump Received a Mysterious Letter from Putin in 2013.”
37. Corn and Levintova, “How Did an Alleged Russian Mobster End Up on Trump’s Red Carpet?”
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. “Donald Trump Planning Skyscraper in Moscow,” Moscow Times, November 12, 2013, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/donald-trump-planning-skyscraper-in-moscow-29441; “Sberbank Funds $2.4 Billion Construction at Crocus City,” Moscow Times, November 19, 2013, https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/sberbank-funds-24-billion-construction-at-crocus-city-29740.
42. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow”; Vasilyeva, “Russian Real Estate Deals Never Materialized for Trump.”
43. Alex Pfeiffer, “Former Trump Adviser Tells a Story about the President-Elect and Prostitutes,” Daily Caller, January 14, 2017, http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/14/former-trump-adviser-tells-a-story-about-the-president-elect-and-prostitutes/; Chuck Ross, “Trump Bodyguard Testifies Russian Offered ‘Five Women’ to Trump, Was Rejected,” Daily Caller, November 9, 2017, http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/09/report-trump-bodyguard-testifies-russian-offered-five-women-to-trump-was-rejected/.
44. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “I just got back from Russia-learned lots & lots. Moscow is a very interesting and amazing place! U.S. MUST BE VERY SMART AND VERY STRATEGIC,” Twitter, November 10, 2013 6:44 p.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/399729261684490240?lang=en.
45. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “@AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!” Twitter, November 11, 2013, 8:39 a.m., https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/399939505924628480?lan
g=en.
46. Susanne Craig and David W. Chen, “Donald Trump Considered Path to Presidency Starting at Governor’s Mansion in New York,” New York Times, March 6, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/nyregion/donald-trump-new-york-governor.html.
47. Michael Isikoff, “Inside Bannon’s next campaign: Keep the House to save Trump,” Skullduggery, August 3, 2018, https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/inside-bannons-next-campaign-keep-house-save-trump-090037613.html.
48. Yulya Alferova (@Yulya AlferovaE), “ ‘@ell7654321: @realDonaldTrump If u run for president u have my vote’ Remember that!” Twitter, March 30, 2014, 1:17 a.m., https://twitter.com/AlferovaYulyaE?lang=en&lang=en.
49. Yulya Alferova (@Yulya AlferovaE), retweet from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “The situation with Russia is much more dangerous than most people may think - and could lead to World War III. WE NEED GREAT LEADERSHIP FAST,” Twitter, March 22, 2014 6:23 a.m., https://twitter.com/AlferovaYulyaE?lang=en&lang=en.
50. Alferova, Twitter, March 30, 2014, 1:17 a.m.
51. Kirsch, “The Full Exclusive Interview”; Emily Stewart, “Read: Donald Trump Jr.’s Congressional Testimony about the Trump Tower Meeting,” Vox, May 16, 2018 (Donald Trump Jr. testimony, pg. 32), https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/16/17360484/donald-trump-jr-transcript-senate-judiciary-committee; Ivanka Trump (Ivankatrump), “ivankatrump Moscow,” Instagram photo, February 3, 2014, https://www.instagram.com/p/j9eJV4ikAI/.
52. Damien Sharkov, “Neither Vladimir Putin Nor His Staff Have Ever Spoken to Trump: Kremlin,” Newsweek, August 3, 2016, https://www.newsweek.com/neither-putin-nor-his-staff-have-ever-spoken-trump-kremlin-486712.
53. Corn and Isikoff, “What Happened in Moscow.”
54. Eugene Robinson, “Is Donald Trump Just Plain Crazy?” Washington Post, August 1, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-donald-trump-just-plain-crazy/2016/08/01/cd171e86-581d-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?utm_term=.bec6910faab3.
55. Donald Trump, “Building the Trump Brand,” speech, Washington, D.C., May 27, 2014, National Press Club, https://www.press.org/events/npc-luncheon-donald-trump-chairman-and-president-trump-organization; Transcript: C-Span https://www.c-span.org/video/?319570-1/donald-trump-national-press-club-speech.
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