2. John Swain 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.
3. Martin Longman, “A #TrumpRussia Confession in Plain Sight,” Washington Monthly, November 24, 2017, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/24/a-trumprussia-confession-in-plain-sight/; Martin Longman, “Does a Russian’s Confession Fit What We Know?” Washington Monthly, November 28, 2017, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/11/28/does-a-russians-confession-fit-what-we-know/; Scott Stedman, “Hacking Efforts, Strongly Implied Colluding With Trump Team in Facebook Posts,” Medium, November 21, 2017, https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/kremlin-propagandist-boasted-of-his-hacking-efforts-strongly-implied-colluding-with-trump-team-in-a905104965a1.
4. Patrick Hopwell O’Neill, “This dark net brothel makes finding sex as easy as hailing an Uber,” Daily Dot, June 24, 2016, https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/dosung-dark-net-russian-brothel/.
5. 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, “Report: Trump Bodyguard Testifies Russian Ordered ‘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/.
6. Adam Goldman and Nicholas Fandos, “Keith Schiller, Trump’s Ex-Bodyguard, Says He Turned Down Offer of Women in Moscow,” New York Times, November 10, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/politics/trump-keith-schiller-russia.html.
7. DiLanian and Allen, “Trump Bodyguard Keith Schiller Testifies Russian Offered Trump Women, Was Turned Down,” NBC News, November 9, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-bodyguard-testifies-russian-offered-trump-women-was-turned-down-n819386.
8. James West, “This Is One of the Most Surreal Bits from Donald Trump’s Bizarre Press Conference,” Mother Jones, January 11, 2017, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/trump-russia-hotel-bugging-um-what-weird/.
9. DiLanian and Allen, “Trump Bodyguard Keith Schiller Testifies Russian Offered Trump Women, Was Turned Down.”
10. Ken Bensinger et al., “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia,” BuzzFeed News, January 10, 2017, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kenbensinger/these-reports-allege-trump-has-deep-ties-to-russia; Jane Mayer, “Christopher Steele, The Man Behind The Trump Dossier,” New Yorker, March 12, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/12/christopher-steele-the-man-behind-the-trump-dossier; Howard Blum, “How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier,” Vanity Fair, March 30, 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/03/how-the-explosive-russian-dossier-was-compiled-christopher-steele.
11. Natasha Bertrand, “Fusion GPS testimony brings alleged dossier source Sergei Millian back into the spotlight,” Business Insider, January 19, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/sergei-millian-michael-cohen-glenn-simpson-fusion-gps-2018-1.
12. Bensinger et al., “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia.”
13. Kevin Drum, “BBC’s Paul Wood: There are Four Sourcs For Claims of Possible Trump-Russia Blackmail,” Mother Jones, January 12, 2017, https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/bbcs-paul-wood-there-are-four-sources-possible-trump-russia-blackmail/; Paul Wood, “Forget Charlottesville—Russia is still the true Trump scandal,” Spectator, August 17, 2017, https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/forget-charlottesville-russia-is-still-the-true-trump-scandal/.
14. Wood, “Forget Charlottesville—Russia is still the true Trump scandal.”
15. Twitter communication with author, October 7, 2017.
16. Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “Who is Source D? The man said to be behind the Trump-Russia dossier’s most salacious claim,” Washington Post, March 29, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/who-is-source-d-the-man-said-to-be-behind-the-trump-russia-dossiers-most-salacious-claim/2017/03/29/379846a8-0f53-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.ea33cad824cb; Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk, “US-Russian Businessman Said to Be Source of Key Trump Dossier Claim,” ABC News, January 30, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-russian-businessman-source-key-trump-dossier-claims/story?id=45019603.
17. Paul Wood, “Trump ‘compromising’ claims: How and why did we get here?” BBC, January 12, 2017, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38589427.
18. Ibid.
19. “Russia says Trump intel claims a ‘fabrication and utter nonsense,’ ” CBS News, January 11, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-vladimir-putin-compromising-intelligence-donald-trump-fabrication/; Twitter (Donald Trump verified account), https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819155311793700865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E819155311793700865&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Frussia-vladimir-putin-compromising-intelligence-donald-trump-fabrication%2F; Twitter (Donald Trump verified account), https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/819159806489591809?ref_src=twsrc%5Ettwitter-are-we-living-in-nazi-germany.htmlfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E819159806489591809&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Frussia-vladimir-putin-compromising-intelligence-donald-trump-fabrication%2F.
20. Jacob Pramuk, “Trump melts down on Twitter: ‘Are we living in Nazi Germany?” CNBC, January 11, 2017, https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/11/trump-melts-down-on-twitter-are-we-living-in-nazi-germany.html.
21. Ben Guarino, “Shaking hands is ‘barbaric’: Donald Trump, the germaphobe in chief,” Washington Post, January 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/12/shaking-hands-is-barbaric-donald-trump-the-germaphobe-in-chief/?utm_term=.09ad9aadd7d6 is a germaphobe.
22. Michael Isikoff, “Trump told Comey he never slept in Moscow. But he did.” Yahoo.com, April 20, 2018, https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-told-comey-never-slept-moscow-185535745.html; Adam Lusher, “Flight records appear to disprove Donald Trump’s Moscow prostitutes alibi,” Independent, April 24, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-dossier-pee-tape-prostitutes-flight-records-moscow-christopher-steele-james-comey-memos-a8319731.html.
23. Guarino, “Shaking hands is ‘barbaric.’ ”
24. West, “This Is One of the Most Surreal Bits from Donald Trump’s Bizarre Press Conference.”
25. “Donald Trump’s News Conference: Full Transcript and Video,” New York Times, January 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/trump-press-conference-transcript.html.
26. Ibid.
27. Alex Eriksen, “Who Is Kata Sarka? This Hungarian Beauty Claims Donald Trump Made a Pass at Her,” Yahoo.com, January 14, 2017, https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/who-is-kata-sarka-this-hungarian-beauty-claims-donald-trump-made-a-pass-at-her-212728724.html.
28. Eli Watkins, “Karen McDougal tells CNN Trump once tried to pay her after sex,” CNN, March 22, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/politics/karen-mcdougal-donald-trump/index.html.
29. Pfeiffer, “Former Trump Adviser Tells a Story about the President-Elect and Prostitutes.”
30. Carol D. Leonig, “Former security chief says he rejected offer of women for Trump during Moscow trip,” Washington Post, November 9, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-security-chief-says-he-rejected-offer-of-women-for-trump-during-moscow-trip/2017/11/09/55531270-c585-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.828e0d5ae410.
31. “Emin Agalarov denies allegation he offered to send women to Trump’s hotel room,” ABC News, July 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/emin-agalarov-denies-allegation-offered-send-women-trumps-56494402; Aaron Blake, “The Trump Russia story reaches a ridiculous new zenith, in a Russian music video,” Washington Post, June 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/06/26/trumps-russian-pop-star-ally-releases-a-music-video-trump-will-hate/?utm_term=.60546c13484c; Ela
he Izadi, “How Trump ended up in a 2013 Europop video connected to the latest Russia controversy,” Washington Post, July 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/07/10/how-trump-ended-up-in-a-2013-europop-video-connected-to-the-latest-russia-controversy/?utm_term=.bc33bf01c4b3.
32. Lydia Ramsey, “Trump’s doctor says he only sleeps 4-5 hours each night—and there could be a scientific reason why,” Business Insider, January 16, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/some-people-only-need-a-few-hours-of-sleep-2016-12.
33. Anna Nemtsova, “She Met Donald Trump at the Moscow Ritz (Not That Way!),” Daily Beast, January 20, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-met-donald-trump-at-the-moscow-ritz-not-that-way?ref=scroll.
34. Anna Nemtsova, “The Untold Tale of Colbert’s Hunt for Trump ‘Pee Tape,’ ” Daily Beast, July 29, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/colbert-takes-on-the-kremlinand-russians-love-it.
35. Andrew Higgins and Andrew E. Kramer, “Russia’s Sexual Blackmail Didn’t Die With the Soviets,” New York Times, January 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/world/europe/donald-trump-russia.html.
36. Ibid.
37. Matthew Rosenberg, “Ex-Chief of C.I.A. Suggests Putin May Have Compromising Information on Trump,” New York Times, March 21, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/politics/john-brennan-trump-putin.html.
38. Veronica Stracqualursi, “Comey: “I don’t know if Trump was with prostitutes in Moscow,” CNN, April 13, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/13/politics/james-comey-trump-dossier/index.html.
39. Matthew Yglesias, “Asked directly, Putin does not deny possessing ‘compromising material,’ on Trump,” Vox, July 16, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17576784/trump-putin-pee-tape.
40. Ibid.
41. Justin Criado, “Bob Baer shares scoop on Trump and Russia,” Telluride Daily Planet, August 10, 2018, https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_fe60e776-9cf7-11e8-8d94-7f6e5cd044d1.html.
42. Ibid.
43. Scott Stedman, “Kremlin Propagandist who claimed he coordinated with Trump team, was previously appointed as Putin’s ‘trusted confidant,’ ” Medium, February 26, 2018, https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/kremlin-propagandist-who-claimed-he-coordinated-with-trump-team-was-previously-appointed-as-putins-2dc5f83298e5; Martin Longman, “A #TrumpRussia Confession in Plain Sight.”
44. Molly Schwartz, “The man who taught the Kremlin how to win the internet,” Public Radio International, May 7, 2018, https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-05-07/man-who-taught-kremlin-how-win-internet.
45. O’Neill, “This dark net brothel makes finding sex as easy as hailing an Uber.”
46. Scott Stedman, Artem Lyushin Attended 2015 Trump Speech in Iowa,” Medium, November 21, 2017, https://web.archive.org/web/20180101154942/https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/artem-klyushin-attended-2015-trump-speech-in-iowa-6b4619af7420.
47. Andrew Osborn, “From Russia with love: why the Kremlin backs Trump,” Reuters, March 24, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-russia/from-russia-with-love-why-the-kremlin-backs-trump-idUSKCN0WQ1FA.
48. Higgins and Kramer, “Russia’s Sexual Blackmail Didn’t Die With the Soviets.”
49. “Putin Bragged about Russian Hookers . . . According to Comey Memo,” TMZ, April 19, 2018, http://www.tmz.com/2018/04/19/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-russian-hookers-comey-memo/.
50. Shane Harris et al., “In a personal letter, Trump invited Putin to the 2013 Miss Universe pageant,” Washington Post, March 9, 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=.dc8f6cd8db13.
51. The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, YouTube video, July 21, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk1uBMZOaXc.
52. Conan, YouTube video, November 7, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyNkvEts8K8.
53. Adam Gopnik, “Trump and Obama: A Night to Remember,” New Yorker, September 12, 2015, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-and-obama-a-night-to-remember.
54. Roxanne Roberts, “I sat next to Donald Trump at the infamous 2011 White House correspondents’ dinner,” 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=.416908506726.
55. Wood, “Forget Charlottesville—Russia is still the true Trump scandal.”
56. Wood, “Trump ‘compromising’ claims: How and why did we get here?”
57. Bensinger et al., “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia.”
58. Will Stewart, “Putin ‘solutions not problems’—how billionaire tycoon at center of meeting with Don Jr is Russian leader’s go-to for tough projects (like wooing Trump),” Daily Mail, July 13, 2017, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4690806/Agalarov-s-relationship-Trump-manna-Putin.html.
59. Michele Neubert et al., “Christopher Steele, Trump Dossier Author, Is a Real-Life James Bond,” NBC News, January 13, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/christopher-steele-trump-dossier-author-real-life-james-bond-n706376.
60. Adam Davidson, “A Theory of Trump Kompromat,” New Yorker, July 19, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news-desk/swamp-chronicles/a-theory-of-trump-kompromat.
61. Swaine and Walker, “Trump in Moscow.”
62. Ibid.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE CAMPAIGN BEGINS
1. Sarah Wheaton, “NRA Facing Member Backlash over Trump Endorsement,” Politico, May 21, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/nra-donald-trump-endorsement-backlash-223442.
2. Fred Barnes, “Gunning for Hillary,” Weekly Standard, February 24, 2017, https://www.weeklystandard.com/fred-barnes/gunning-for-hillary.
3. Andrew Prokop, “Maria Butina, Explained: the accused Russian spy who tried to sway US politics through the NRA,” Vox, July 19, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17581354/maria-butina-russia-nra-trump.
4. Philip Bump, “Timeline: The odd overlap of Maria Butina, the gun-rights movement and the 2016 election,” Washington Post, July 16, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/16/timeline-the-odd-overlap-of-maria-butina-the-gun-rights-movement-and-the-2016-election/?utm_term=.c86179bb0c52.
5. Tim Dickinson, “Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump,” Rolling Stone, April 2, 2018, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-the-decade-long-russian-campaign-to-infiltrate-the-nra-and-help-elect-trump-630054/.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Esteban Duarte et al., “Mobster or Central Banker? Spanish Cops Allege This Russian Both,” Bloomberg, August 8, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-09/mobster-or-central-banker-spanish-cops-allege-this-russian-both.
9. Sonam Sheth, “The FBI has obtained wiretaps of a Putin ally tied to the NRA who met with Trump Jr. during the campaign,” Business Insider, May 26, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-obtains-alexander-torshin-wiretaps-from-spanish-police-2018-5; Jose Maria Irujo and John Carlin, “The Spanish Connection with Trump’s Russia Scandal,” El Pais, April 3, 2017, https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/31/inenglish/1490984556_409827.html.
10. Mark Follman, “The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina,” Mother Jones, July 19, 2018, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/nra-maria-butina-spying-charges-trump-campaign/; Jessica Schladebeck, “A Look at Paul Erickson, Alleged Contact of Accused Russian Agent Maria Butina,” New York Daily News, July 18, 2018, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-maria-butina-paul-erickson-russia-ties-20180718-story.html.
11. Follman, “The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina.”
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. “Here’s a Timeline of Every Time Donald Trump Ran for President,” TV Guide, July 28, 2015, https://www.tvgu
ide.com/news/donald-trump-presidential-campaign-timeline/.
16. 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.
17. Follman, “The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina”; DOJ affidavit accompanying indictments, July 17, 2018, https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1080766/download.
18. Ilya Arkhipov and Evgenia Pismennaya, “Putin Loyalists Are Invading Washington,” Bloomberg, April 6, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-06/trump-s-russian-fans-won-t-take-nyet-for-an-answer-in-washington.
19. Tim Mak, “Depth of Politician’s Cultivation of NRA Ties Revealed,” NPR, March 1, 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/03/01/590076949/depth-of-russian-politicians-cultivation-of-nra-ties-revealed.
20. Michael Isikoff, “White House Pulled Out of Meet and Greet with ‘Conservatives’ Favorite Russian’ Over Suspected Mob Ties,” Yahoo!, April 2, 2017, https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-pulled-out-of-meet-and-greet-with-conservatives-favorite-russian-a-suspected-mobster-060026495.html.
21. Mak, “Depth of Politician’s Cultivation of NRA Ties Revealed.”
22. Christopher Brennan, “Russian Banker Said He Met Trump Through NRA,” New York Daily News, March 2, 2018, http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/russian-banker-met-trump-nra-article-1.3850535.
23. Philip Bump, “The Subtle Evolution of Trump’s Views on Putin and Russia,” Washington Post, July 17, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/17/the-subtle-evolution-of-trumps-views-on-putin-and-russia/?utm_term=.5ebd2b282183; Andrew Kaczynski et al., “80 Times Trump Talked About Putin,” CNN, March 21, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/03/politics/trump-putin-russia-timeline/.
24. Bump, “Timeline.”
25. DemoCast, “Donald Trump Handles Questions at FreedomFest July 11, ’15 Las Vegas,” YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP8xogCIGXw&t=9m3s.
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