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12. “Read the Job Application Memo Manafort Sent to Trump.”
13. Thrush, “To Charm Trump.”
14. Ibid.
15. Katy Tur et al., “Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski Ousted,” NBC News, June 20, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-campaign-manager-corey-lewandowski-ousted-n595581; Meghan Keneally, “Timeline of Paul Manafort’s Role in the Trump Campaign,” ABC News, October 30, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-paul-manaforts-role-trump-campaign/story?id=50808957; Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump Hires Paul Manafort to Lead Delegate Effort,” New York Times, March 28, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/28/donald-trump-hires-paul-manafort-to-lead-delegate-effort/.
16. John King et al., “Donald Trump Meeting Suggests Campaign Changes,” CNN, April 7, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/politics/trump-campaign-overhaul-manafort-lewandowski/index.html.
17. Tur, “Trump Campaign Manager Corey Lewandowski Ousted”; Keneally, “Timeline of Paul Manafort’s Role in the Trump Campaign”; Burns and Haberman, “Donald Trump Hires Paul Manafort to Lead Delegate Effort.”
18. Ibid.
19. Kenneth P. Vogel and Ben Schreckinger, “Trump campaign rift gets personal,” Politico, May 25, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-campaign-manafort-lewandowski-223532.
20. Senate Judiciary Committee documents (pp. 6–7), https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Trump%20Jr%20Exhibits_redacted.pdf; Thrush, “To Charm Trump.”
21. Emily Stewart, “Read: Donald Trump Jr.’s Congressional Testimony about the Trump Tower Meeting,” Vox, May 16, 2018 (Trump Jr. testimony, pp. 34–35), https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/16/17360484/donald-trump-jr-transcript-senate-judiciary-committee; Senate Judiciary Committee documents.
22. Ibid.
23. Keneally, “Timeline of Paul Manafort’s Role in the Trump Campaign”; Matt Apuzzo et al., “Former Trump Aides Charged as Prosecutors Reveal New Campaign Ties with Russia,” New York Times, October 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/paul-manafort-indicted.html.
24. Kate Brannen, “A Timeline of Paul Manafort’s Relationship with Donald Trump,” Slate, October 30, 2017, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/10/a_timeline_of_paul_manafort_s_relationship_with_the_trump_world.html.
25. Caitlin Oprysko, “Trump: Manafort Trial Is a ‘Very Sad Day for Our Country,’ ” Politico, August 17, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/17/paul-manafort-trial-trump-pardon-783133.
26. Tom McCarthy, “Sean Spicer Contradicts Trump’s Manafort Claims in New Book,” Guardian, July 12, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/12/sean-spicer-contradicts-trumps-manafort-claims-in-new-book; Kenneth P. Vogel, “Manafort Advised Trump Team on Russian Scandal,” Politico, May 25, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/25/manafort-trump-russia-advise-238803.
27. Vogel, “Manafort Advised Trump Team on Russian Scandal.”
28. Darren Samuelson and Josh Gerstein, “Manafort Trial Day 9: Witness Suggests Trump Role Helped Manafort Nab Loans,” Politico, August 10, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/10/manafort-trial-day-9-judge-ts-ellis-772518.
29. Jennifer Rubin, “Why Trump Is So Freaked Out by the Manafort Trial,” Washington Post, August 1, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/08/01/how-the-manafort-trial-may-hurt-trump/?utm_term=.9a4341b65fa7.
30. Mike McIntire, “Manafort Was in Debt to Pro-Russia Interests, Cyprus Records Show,” New York Times, July 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/paul-manafort-russia-trump.html; Tom Hamburger et al., “Manafort Offered to Give Russian Billionaire ‘Private Briefings’ on 2016 Campaign,” Washington Post, September 20, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-offered-to-give-russian-billionaire-private-briefings-on-2016-campaign/2017/09/20/399bba1a-9d48-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html?utm_term=.166af7bf895c.
31. Nick Gass, “Trump Names Sessions Chairman of National Security Committee,” Politico, March 3, 2016, https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/donald-trump-jeff-sessions-chairman-of-national-security-committee-220220.
32. Artin Afkhami, “A Timeline of Carter Page’s Contacts with Russia,” Slate, November 7, 2017, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2017/11/a_timeline_of_carter_page_s_contacts_with_russia.html.
33. “FBI Releases Carter Page’s Surveillance Records,” CBS News, July 22, 2018, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/carter-page-fisa-documents-released-today-2018-07-21/; HPSCI documents (Carter Page testimony, November 2017, p. 45), https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4176248-Carter-Page-Hpsci-Hearing-Transcript-Nov-2-2017.html.
34. “FBI Releases Carter Page’s Surveillance Records”; Tom Hamburger and Rosalind S. Helderman, “ ‘Anyone . . . with a Pulse’: How a Russia-friendly adviser found his way into the Trump campaign,” Washington Post, May 25, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anyone—with-a-pulse-how-a-russia-friendly-adviser-found-his-way-into-the-trump-campaign/2017/05/25/32438f72-4014-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html?utm_term=.c8a4131f7d4d; HPSCI documents; January 26, 2015, https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-holder-announces-charges-against-russian-spy-ring-new-york-city.
35. Jeremy Diamond and Jeremy Herb, “Who Is Michael Flynn?” CNN, December 1, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/01/politics/who-is-michael-flynn/index.html.
36. Ali Watkins, “A Former Trump Adviser Met with a Russian Spy,” BuzzFeed News, April 3, 2017, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alimwatkins/a-former-trump-adviser-met-with-a-russian-spy.
37. Ibid.
38. Massimo Calabresi and Anna Abramson, “Carter Page Touted Kremlin Contacts in a 2013 Letter,” Time, February 4, 2018, http://time.com/5132126/carter-page-russia-2013-letter/.
39. HPSCI documents.
40. Hamburger and Helderman, “ ‘Anyone . . . with a Pulse.’ ”
41. Ibid.
42. Mark Hosenball and Steven Holland, “Trump Being Advised by ex-U.S. Lieutenant General Who Favors Closer Russia Ties,” Reuters, February 26, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-advisor/trump-being-advised-by-ex-u-s-lieutenant-general-who-favors-closer-russia-ties-idUSMTZSAPEC2Q6G3JRH.
43. Josh Marshall, “Why did Clovis say Russia was a principal focus of the campaign,” Talking Points Memo, November 1, 2017, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-did-clovis-say-russia-was-a-principal-focus-of-the-campaign; Allegra Kirkland, “Trump Adviser Who Pleaded Guilty Met Russian-Linked Prof About Clinton ‘Dirt,’ ” Talking Points Memo, October 30, 2017, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/george-papadopoulos-pleads-guilty-lying-to-fbi.
44. Pamela Brown and Jeremy Herb, “Papadopoulos’ fiancée says he didn’t act ‘without campaign approval,” CNN, December 8, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/george-papadopoulos-fiancee/index.html.
45. Ibid.
46. Jake Tapper, “The Mysterious Case Of George Papadopoulos: George Papadopoulos Ignited the Russia Conspiracy Investigation,” CNN, September 7, 2018, http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1809/07/csr.01.html.
47. Kirkland, “Trump Adviser Who Pleaded Guilty.”
48. Papadopoulos affidavit, CNN, October 30, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/30/politics/george-papadopoulos-offense-affidavit-complaint/index.html; Tapper, “The Mysterious Case of George Papadopoulos.”
49. Ibid.; Ali Watkins, “Mysterious Putin ‘Niece’ Has a Name,” Politico, November 9, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/09/putin-niece-olga-vinogradova-george-papadopoulos-russia-probe-244758.
50. Papadopoulos affidavit.
51. Ibid.
52. Sharon LaFraniere et al., “A London Meeting of an Unlikely Group: How a Trump Adviser Came to Learn of Clinton ‘Dirt,’ ” New York Times, November 10, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/10/us/russia-inquiry-trump.html.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. Linley Sander, “Trump Knew Papadopoulos Would Meet with Foreigners, Ex-Aide Claims,” Newsweek, November 17, 2017, https://www.newsweek.com/papadopoulos-says-trump-authorized-him-meet-foreign-leaders-714644.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid.
58. “A transcript of Donald Trump’s meeting with the Washington Post editorial board,” Washington Post, March 21, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/?utm_term=.5d8482216abe; direct Twitter message from Marianna Kakaouani, the Kathimerini reporter who interviewed Papadopoulos and is cited in the Newsweek article: “That[’]s the story he told me—that that picture [from March 31] was not from [then] but from [March] 21st. That it was that day that he got invited [to] his [Trump’s] Washington hotel for a speech and [at the] last minute he got invited upstairs in[to] one of the rooms [for a one-on-one meeting]. . . . right after that the [March 21, 2016] Washington Post interview happened. That[’]s what he told me [in] December [2016]. He might have been mixed up but seemed quite certain about the sequence of events.” Trump did indeed give a “speech” at his “Washington hotel” on March 21, 2016, just as Papadopoulos says he did, and he also did give his Washington Post interview that day. For the March 21, 2016, Trump speech, see https://www.c-span.org/video/?407049-1/donald-trump-news-conference-washington-dc.
59. Dion Nissenbaum, “Private Group Sought to Arm Syrian Rebels,” Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/private-group-sought-to-arm-syrian-rebels-1400464766.
60. Adam Serwer, “Top Romney Adviser Tied to Militia That Massacred,” Mother Jones, October 27, 2011, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/walid-phares-mitt-romney-lebanese-forces/; Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2016, https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/03/28/meet-anti-muslim-leaders-advising-donald-trump-and-ted-cruz; Jennifer Williams, “How to get a top national security job in Trump’s administration: Be afraid of Muslims,” Vox, November 16, 2016, https://www.vox.com/world/2016/11/16/13638606/trump-secretary-state-defense-giuliani-bolton-islam-terrorism.
61. Michael A. Memoli, “Trump’s national security advisor, Michael Flynn, resigns over contacts with Russia,” Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-keith-kellogg-is-trump-s-new-national-1487051920-htmlstory.html; White House press release, April 23, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/vice-president-mike-pence-announces-lieutenant-general-ret-keith-kellogg-national-security-advisor/.
62. Jeremy Scahill, “Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince Is Advising from the Shadows,” Intercept, January 17, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/; Bryan Bender, “Trump Names Mike Flynn National Security Adviser,” Politico, November 17, 2016; Spencer S. Hsu and Victoria St. Martin, “Four Blackwater Guards Sentenced in Iraq shootings of 31 Unarmed Civilians,” Washington Post, April 13, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/four-blackwater-guards-sentenced-in-iraq-shootings-of-31-unarmed-civilians/2015/04/13/55b777e0-dee4-11e4-be40-566e2653afe5_story.html.
63. Ryan Hutchins, “Christie: Warning About Flynn Among Reasons I Was Fired from Trump Transition,” Politico, December 6, 2017, https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/12/06/christie-warning-about-flynn-among-reasons-i-was-fired-from-trump-transition-136432.
64. Matthew Rosenberg and Matt Apuzzo, “Flynn Is Said to Have Talked to Russians about Sanctions Before Trump Took Office,” New York Times, February 9, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/flynn-is-said-to-have-talked-to-russians-about-sanctions-before-trump-took-office.html; Matthew Mosk et al., “Putin ally suggests Seychelles meeting with Erik Prince more than chance encounter over a beer,” ABC News, May 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/putin-ally-seychelles-meeting-erik-prince-chance-encounter/story?id=55408942.
65. Alexandra Wilts, “Trump says he can’t ‘remember much’ about his 2016 meeting with adviser who pleaded guilty in Russia probe,” Independent, November 3, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-russia-investigation-meeting-george-papadopoulos-latest-response-comments-a8036231.html.
66. Robert Farley and Eugene Kiely, “Was Papadopoulos a ‘Low-Level Volunteer,” FactCheck.org, October 31, 2017, https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/papadopoulos-low-level-volunteer/.
67. HPSCI documents; “Carter Page at a Meeting with Tulsi Gabbard in Hawaii on April 1, 2016,” Daily Kos, June 26, 2018, https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/26/1775668/-Carter-Page-at-a-Meeting-with-Tulsi-Gabbard-in-Hawaii-on-April-1-2016.
68. Karin Freifeld et al., “Exclusive—Sources Contradict Sessions’ Testimony He Opposed Russia Outreach,” Reuters, March 18, 2018, https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN1GU0NE.
69. Andrew Prokop, “Jeff Sessions’s Russia Testimony Problem Keeps Getting Worse,” Vox, November 14, 2017, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/3/16599426/jeff-sessions-russia-testimony.
70. Freifeld et al., “Exclusive—Sources Contradict Sessions’ Testimony He Opposed Russia Outreach.”
71. Ibid.
72. Ibid.
73. Scott Shane, “Trump Campaign Got Early Word Russia Had Democrats’ Emails,” New York Times, October 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/trump-russia-mueller-indictment.html.
74. Chuck Ross, “Trump Adviser Proposed Meeting with Russians During Campaign but Was Shot Down by Sessions,” Daily Caller, August 17, 2017, http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/17/trump-adviser-proposed-meeting-with-russians-during-campaign-but-was-shot-down-by-sessions/.
75. Freifeld et al., “Exclusive.”
76. Catherine Herridge, “Special Counsel Investigators Start Questioning White House Staffers,” Fox News, September 29, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/29/special-counsel-investigators-start-questioning-white-house-staffers.html; Matthew Rosenberg et al., “Ongoing Trump Migraine: His Initial Foreign Policy Team,” New York Times, October 31, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/trump-foreign-policy-advisers.html.
77. Mikhaila Fogel, “Document: George Papadopoulos Defense Team Sentencing Memo,” Lawfare, September 1, 2018, https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-george-papadopoulos-defense-team-sentencing-memo.
78. Ken Dilanian et al., “FBI Told Trump Russians Would Try to Infiltrate His Campaign,” NBC News, December 19, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-warned-trump-2016-russians-would-try-infiltrate-his-campaign-n830596.
79. John Bowden, “Papadopoulos was in regular contact with Stephen Miller, helped edit Trump speech: Report,” Hill, November 10, 2017, http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359891-nyt-papadopoulos-was-in-regular-contact-with-stephen-miller.
80. Brianne Pfannenstiel, “Reports: Iowan Sam Clovis Encouraged Papadopoulos Russia Meeting,” Des Moines Register, October 31, 2017, https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/31/sam-clovis-encouraged-papadopoulos-russia-meeting/817054001/.
81. Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “Top Campaign Officials Knew of Trump Adviser’s Outreach to Russia,” Washington Post, October 30, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-campaign-adviser-pleaded-guilty-to-lying-about-russian-contacts/2017/10/30/d525e712-bd7d-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.cb347272de62.
82. Ellen Nakashima, “Russian government hackers penetrated DNC, stole opposition research on Trump,” Washington Post, June 14, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html?utm_term=.bbd72169d749.
83. Evan Perez, “Sources: US Officials Warned DNC of Hack Months Before the Part Acted,” CNN, July 26, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/politics/democratic-convention-dnc-emails-russia/index.html.
84. “Transcript: Donald Trump Expounds on His Foreign Policy Views,” New York Times, March 27, 20
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86. Rosalind S. Helderman, “Who’s Who in the George Papadopoulos Court Documents,” Washington Post, November 2, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/whos-who-in-the-george-papadopoulos-court-documents/2017/10/30/e131158c-bdb3-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?utm_term=.cf33cbfed723.
87. Asha Rangappa, “What the FISA Warrants Against Paul Manafort Tell Us About Mueller’s Investigation,” Just Security, September 23, 2017, https://www.justsecurity.org/45255/fisa-warrants-paul-manafort-muellers-investigation/.
88. Evan Perez et al., “Exclusive: US Government Wiretapped Former Trump Campaign Chairman,” CNN, September 19, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/politics/paul-manafort-government-wiretapped-fisa-russians/index.html.
89. Department of Justice, indictment against employees of the Internet Research Agency, February 16, 2018, https://www.justice.gov/file/1035477/download.
90. Juliet Eilperin, “Trump agriculture nominee Sam Clovis confirms he has no hard-science credentials, withdraws over ties to Russia probe,” Washington Post, November 2, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/02/sam-clovis-trumps-nominee-for-usdas-top-scientist-confirms-he-has-no-hard-science-credentials/?utm_term=.8b82ba417a09.
91. Bryon York, “Trump Campaign Vet: Informant Used Me to Get to Papadopoulos,” Washington Examiner, May 28, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-campaign-vet-sam-clovis-says-informant-used-him-to-get-to-papadopoulos.