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  26. Ibid.

  27. Emily Stewart, “Read: Donald Trump Jr.’s Congressional Testimony about the Trump Tower Meeting,” Vox, May 16, 2018 (Trump Jr. testimony, p. 31), https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/16/17360484/donald-trump-jr-transcript-senate-judiciary-committee.

  28. Carol D. Leonnig et al., “Trump’s business sought deal on a Trump Tower in Moscow while he ran for president,” Washington Post, August 27, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-business-sought-deal-on-a-trump-tower-in-moscow-while-he-ran-for-president/2017/08/27/d6e95114-8b65-11e7-91d5-ab4e4bb76a3a_story.html?utm_term=.e5ad8751f181.

  29. Natasha Bertrand, “ ‘Help world peace and make a lot of money’: Here’s the letter of intent to build a Trump Tower Moscow,” Business Insider, September 8, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tower-moscow-letter-of-intent-2017-9.

  30. Alexander Sazonov et al., “Trump’s Would-Be Moscow Partner Faces Homebuyers’ Ire,” Bloomberg, September 1, 2017, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-01/trump-s-would-be-moscow-partner-faces-ire-of-homebuyers.

  31. CBS News, “Trump Moscow Letter of Intent Divulged,” CBS News, September 8, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-moscow-letter-of-intent-divulged/.

  32. Brian Ross and Matthew Mosk, “Trump signed letter of intent for Russian tower during campaign, lawyer says,” ABC News, August 28, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-knew-moscow-tower-proposal-campaign-lawyer/story?id=49472342.

  33. Tom Hamburger et al., “Trump’s company had more contact with Russia during campaign, according to documents turned over to investigators,” Washington Post, October 2, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-company-had-more-contact-with-russia-during-campaign-according-to-documents-turned-over-to-investigators/2017/10/02/2091fe5e-a6c0-11e7-850e-2bdd1236be5d_story.html?utm_term=.3f429ce5ad7e.

  34. Ibid.

  35. Ibid.

  36. Bertrand, “ ‘Help world peace and make a lot of money.’ ”

  37. Ibid.

  38. Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman, “Trump Associate Boasted that Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected,’ ” New York Times, August 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html.

  39. Sonam Sheth, “Russian-born businessman Felix Sater has confirmed a bombshell detail in the Russia investigation,” Business Insider, March 17, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/felix-sater-confirms-trump-pursued-deal-with-sanctioned-russian-bank-2018-3.

  40. Press Center, “Treasury Sanctions Individuals and Entities for Sanctions Evasion and Other Activities Related to Russia and Ukraine,” Department of the Treasury, December 22, 2015, https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0314.aspx.

  41. Apuzzo and Haberman, “Trump Associate Boasted that Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected.’ ”

  42. Donie O’Sullivan, “Russians targeted Senate and conservative think tanks, Microsoft says,” CNN, August 21, 2018 (for Peskov as “Kremlin spokesman”), https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/politics/microsoft-russia-american-politicians/index.html; Rosalind S. Helderman et al., “Top Trump organization executive asked Putin aide for help on business deal,” Washington Post, August 28, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-trump-organization-executive-reached-out-to-putin-aide-for-help-on-business-deal/2017/08/28/095aebac-8c16-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.96ea0599bbbb.

  43. “The NRA Has Deep Ties to Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina.”

  44. Tim Mak, “Top Trump Ally Met with Putin’s Deputy in Moscow,” Daily Beast, March 7, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-trump-ally-met-with-putins-deputy-in-moscow.

  45. Peter Stone and Greg Gordon, “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump,” McClatchy, January 18, 2018, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article195231139.html.

  46. Robert Windrem, “Guess Who Came to Dinner with Flynn and Putin,” NBC News, April 18, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696; Robert Windrem, “Mike Flynn’s RT Headache Won’t Go Away,” NBC News, April 27, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mike-flynn-s-rt-headache-won-t-go-away-n752216.

  47. Windrem, “Mike Flynn’s RT Headache Won’t Go Away.”

  48. Ibid.

  49. James Kitfield, “How Mike Flynn Became America’s Angriest General,” Politico, October 16, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/how-mike-flynn-became-americas-angriest-general-214362.

  50. Linley Sanders, “George Papadopoulos Lied on His Résumé to Get Trump Campaign Foreign Policy Job, Former Employer Says,” Newsweek, November 1, 2017, https://www.newsweek.com/george-papadopoulos-lied-his-resume-698409.

  51. Nicholas Fandos, “Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ Using NRA Ties,” New York Times, December 3, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/us/politics/trump-putin-russia-nra-campaign.html.

  52. Ibid.

  53. Ibid.

  54. Matt Apuzzo et al., “Top Russian Official Tried to Broker ‘Backdoor’ Meeting Between Trump and Putin,” New York Times, November 17, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/us/politics/trump-russia-kushner.html.

  55. Ibid.

  56. Arkhipov and Pismennaya, “Putin Loyalists Are Invading Washington”; Chris Smith, “ ‘Coincidence Number 395’: The NRA Spent $30 Million to Elect Trump. Was It Russian Money?” Vanity Fair, June 21, 2018, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money; Stone and Gordon, “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump.”

  57. Fandos, “Operative Offered Trump Campaign ‘Kremlin Connection’ ”; Smith, “ ‘Coincidence Number 395’ ”; Stone and Gordon, “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump.”

  58. Peter Stone and Ben Weider, “NRA Spent More than Reported During 2016 election,” McClatchy, October 5, 2017, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article177312006.html; Stone and Gordon, “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump.”

  59. Ibid.

  60. Jeremy W. Peters and Rachel Shorey, “Trump Spent Far Less than Clinton, but Paid His Companies Well,” New York Times, December 9, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us/politics/campaign-spending-donald-trump-hillary-clinton.html.

  61. David A. Graham, “The Lie of Trump’s ‘Self-Funding’ Campaign,” Atlantic, May 13, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/trumps-self-funding-lie/482691/; Ian Mount, “Trump Decides He’s Not Rich Enough to Self-Fund His Campaign,” Fortune, May 5, 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/05/05/trump-big-donors-super-pacs/.

  62. Smith, “ ‘Coincidence Number 395’ ”; Stone and Gordon, “FBI investigating whether Russian money went to NRA to help Trump”; Greg Gordon et al., “Sanctioned Russians include dossier figure and banker linked to NRA,” McClatchy, April 6, 2018, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article208180169.html.

  63. Bump, “Timeline.”

  64. Michael Birnbaum and Jose A. DelReal, “Trump tells Ukraine conference their nation was invaded because ‘there is no respect for the United States,’ ” Washington Post, September 11, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/11/trump-tells-ukraine-conference-their-nation-was-invaded-because-there-is-no-respect-for-the-united-states/?utm_term=.eadc51f992dc.

  65. Kaczynski, “80 Times Trump Talked About Putin.”

  66. Ibid.

  67. Ibid.

  68. Ibid.

  69. Ibid.

  70. Ibid.

  71. Ibid.

  72. Ibid.

  73. Ibid.

  74. Tim Mak, “Documents Reveal How Russian Official Courted Conservatives in US Since 2009,” NPR, May 2018, https://www.npr.org/2018/05/11/610206357/documents-reveal-how-russian-official-courted-conservatives-in-u-s-since-2009.

  75. Ibid.

  76. Ibid.

/>   77. Ibid.

  78. Bob Dreyfuss, “Who Is Felix Sater, and Why Is Donald Trump So Afraid of Him?” Nation, September 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/who-is-felix-sater-and-why-is-donald-trump-so-afraid-of-him/.

  79. Brennan Weiss, “Inside the close relationship between Trump and his ‘pit bull’ lawyer Michael Cohen, who paid Stormy Daniels, says he’d ‘take a bullet’ for Trump, and was raided by the FBI,” Business Insider, April 10, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/michael-cohen-history-with-trump-2018-3?r=UK&IR=T.

  80. Ibid.; Emily Jane Fox, “Michael Cohen Would Take a Bullet for Donald Trump,” Vanity Fair, September 6, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/michael-cohen-interview-donald-trump.

  81. Philip Shenon, “Trump’s Lawyer Went to the Worst Law School in America,” Politico, May 2018, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/05/04/trump-michael-cohen-lawyer-cooley-law-school-218318; Weiss, “Inside the close relationship”; Alan Feuer et al., “Sean Hannity Is Named as Client of Michael Cohen, Trump’s Lawyer,” New York Times, April 16, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/business/media/sean-hannity-michael-cohen-client.html.

  82. Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng, “Sean Hannity Has Been Advising Donald Trump on the Nunes Memo because of Course He Has,” Daily Beast, February 1, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/sean-hannity-has-been-advising-donald-trump-on-the-nunes-memo-because-of-course-he-has; Jim Rutenberg, “Sean Hannity Turns Adviser in the Service of Donald Trump,” New York Times, August 22, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/22/business/media/sean-hannity-turns-adviser-in-the-service-of-donald-trump.html; Alex Isenstadt, “RNC Fundraiser Resigns after Report of $1.6 Million Playmate Payoff,” Politico, April 13, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/13/rnc-deputy-finance-chair-broidy-resigns-522867; Jim Rutenberg and Jaclyn Peiser, “The Path of Stormy Daniels’s $130,000 Payment to Keep Quiet,” New York Times, May 3, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/us/politics/stormy-daniels-trump-payment.html; RNC Announcements, “RNC Announces Additions to RNC Finance Leadership Team,” GOP.com press statement, April 3, 2017, https://gop.com/rnc-announces-additions-to-rnc-finance-leadership-team/.

  83. David D. Kirkpatrick and Mark Mazzetti, “How 2 Gulf Monarchies Sought to Influence the White House,” New York Times, March 21, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/us/politics/george-nader-elliott-broidy-uae-saudi-arabia-white-house-influence.html.

  84. Kyle Cheney, “Trump Jr. cites attorney-client privilege in not answering panel’s questions about discussions with his father,” Politico, December 6, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/donald-trump-privilege-questions-284841.

  85. Ross and Mosk, “Trump signed letter of intent for Russian tower.”

  86. Ibid.

  87. Ibid.

  88. Bertrand, “ ‘Help world peace and make a lot of money.’ ”

  89. Ross and Mosk, “Trump signed letter of intent for Russian tower.”

  90. Bertrand, “ ‘Help world peace and make a lot of money.’ ”

  91. Vicky Ward, “Michael Cohen Speaks: Trump Exec Admits Russia Dealings Were Gross, but Not Illegal,” Huffington Post, August 30, 2017; updated September 1, 2017, https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-cohen-trump-lawyer-russia_us_59a71a28e4b010ca2899e933.

  92. Ibid.

  93. Hunter Walker and Brett Arnold, “Michael Cohen’s efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow went on longer than he has previously acknowledged,” Yahoo! News, May 16, 2018, https://www.yahoo.com/news/michael-cohens-efforts-build-trump-tower-moscow-went-longer-previously-acknowledged-232845349.html.

  94. Ward, “Michael Cohen Speaks.”

  95. Ken Dilanian, “Former Diplomats: Trump Team Sought to Lift Sanctions on Russia,” NBC News, June 1, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/former-diplomats-trump-team-sought-lift-sanctions-russia-n767406.

  96. Twitter (Yulia Alferova, November 12, 2015), https://twitter.com/alferovayulyae/status/664932169240956928?lang=en.

  97. Twitter (Yulia Alferova, November 11, 2013), https://twitter.com/alferovayulyae/status/399867018725568512?lang=en.

  98. Ibid.

  99. Windrem, “Guess Who Came to Dinner with Flynn and Putin”; Windrem, “Mike Flynn’s RT Headache Won’t Go Away.”

  100. Michael D. Shear and Adam Goldman, “Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty to Lying to the FBI and Will Cooperate with Russia Inquiry,” New York Times, December 1, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/01/us/politics/michael-flynn-guilty-russia-investigation.html.

  101. Matt Novak, “Trump Says He Didn’t Know Michael Flynn in 2015, which Is a Big Fucking Lie,” Gizmodo, May 12, 2017, https://gizmodo.com/trump-says-he-didnt-know-michael-flynn-in-2015-which-i-1795153990.

  102. Dana Priest, “Trump adviser Michael T. Flynn on his dinner with Putin and why Russia Today is just like CNN,” Washington Post, August 15, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/08/15/trump-adviser-michael-t-flynn-on-his-dinner-with-putin-and-why-russia-today-is-just-like-cnn/.

  103. Nicholas Schmidle, “Michael Flynn, General Chaos,” New Yorker, February 27, 2017, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/02/27/michael-flynn-general-chaos.

  104. Ibid.

  105. Priest, “Trump adviser Michael T. Flynn on his dinner with Putin.”

  106. “Michael Flynn, General Chaos.”

  107. Ibid.

  108. Ibid.

  109. Ibid.

  110. Luke Harding et al., “Michael Flynn: New evidence spy chiefs had concerns about Russia ties,” Guardian, March 31, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/31/michael-flynn-new-evidence-spy-chiefs-had-concerns-about-russian-ties.

  111. Ibid.

  112. Ibid.

  113. Ibid.

  114. Zembla, “The Dubious Friends of Donald Trump: The Russians,” YouTube, posted on May 11, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bEdMuKq30I&t=208s.

  115. John Santucci, “Trump Says ‘Great Honor’ to Get Compliments from ‘Highly Respected’ Putin,” ABC News, December 17, 2015, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-great-honor-compliments-highly-respected-putin/story?id=35829618.

  116. Robert Windrem, “Senate Russia Investigators Are Interested in Jill Stein,” NBC News, December 19, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/why-are-senate-russia-investigators-interested-jill-stein-n831261.

  CHAPTER FIVE: THE NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE

  1. Tom Hamburger et al., “Trump campaign emails show aide’s repeated efforts to set up Russia meetings,” Washington Post, August 14, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-emails-show-aides-repeated-efforts-to-set-up-russia-meetings/2017/08/14/54d08da6-7dc2-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.0d5f53a7a22a; John Bowden, “Papadopoulos Was in Regular Contact with Stephen Miller,” Hill, November 10, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359891-nyt-papadopoulos-was-in-regular-contact-with-stephen-miller.

  2. Natasha Bertrand, “It looks like another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story about the GOP’s dramatic shift on Ukraine,” Business Insider, March 3, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-gordon-trump-adviser-ukraine-rnc-2017-3; Michael Krantz, “3 witnesses have contradicted a key portion of Jeff Sessions’ Russia testimony—and it could intensify scrutiny on him,” Business Insider, March 19, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-sessions-perjury-trump-russia-meeting-papadopoulos-2018-3

  3. Josh Rogin, “Trump Campaign Guts GOP’s Anti-Russia Stance on Ukraine,” Washington Post, July 18, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html?utm_term=.8a690c6337a3; Bertrand, “It looks like another Trump adviser.”

  4. Philip Rucker, “Trump: ‘I don’t remember much’ about meeting with Papadopoulos, campaign adviser who has pleaded guilty,” Washington Post, November 3, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/03/trump-i-dont-remember-much-about-meet
ing-with-papadopoulos-campaign-adviser-who-has-pleaded-guilty/?utm_term=.80839efdd05d.

  5. “Three witnesses contradict Sessions account of Trump campaign meeting,”Guardian, March 18, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/18/jeff-sessions-trump-campaign-meeting-witnesses-contradict.

  6. Rucker, “Trump: ‘I don’t remember.”

  7. Jeremy Diamond and Nicole Gaouette, “Donald Trump unveils foreign policy advisers,” CNN, March 3, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/21/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-team/index.html.

  8. David Rutz, “Donald Trump Refuses to Say Who Will Be on His Foreign Policy Team,” Washington Free Beacon, March 14, 2016, https://freebeacon.com/politics/trump-refuses-foreign-policy-team/; Wilson Andrews et al., “2016 Delegate Count and Primary Results,” New York Times, July 5, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary-calendar-and-results.html.

  9. Glenn Thrush, “To Charm Trump, Paul Manafort Sold Himself as an Affordable Outsider Image,” New York Times, April 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html

  10. Kenzi Abou-Sabi et al., “What Did Ex-Trump Aide Paul Manafort Really Do in Ukraine,” NBC News, June 27, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/what-did-ex-trump-aide-paul-manafort-really-do-ukraine-n775431; Andrew Roth, “Paul Manafort Went to Kyrgyzstan to Strengthen Russia’s Position,” Guardian, August 22, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/22/paul-manafort-went-to-kyrgyzstan-to-strengthen-russias-position.

  11. Michael Kranish, “He’s Better than This,’ Says Thomas Barrack, Trump’s Loyal Whisperer,” Washington Post, October 10, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-better-than-this-says-thomas-barrack-trumps-loyal-whisperer/2017/10/10/067fc776-a215-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html?utm_term=.902a2b7bd069; “Read the Job Application Memo Manafort Sent to Trump,” New York Times, October 31, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/31/us/politics/document-manafort-trump-application.html.

 

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