92. Ibid.
93. Ben Schreckinger, “GOP Researcher Who Sought Clinton Emails Had Alt-right Help,” Politico, July 11, 2017, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/07/11/gop-researcher-who-sought-clinton-emails-had-alt-right-help-215359.
94. Ibid.
95. Catherine Boudreau and Josh Dawsey, “Clovis Said to Be ‘Cooperative Witness’ in Senate Russia Probe,” Politico, October 31, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/31/sam-clovis-senate-russia-investigation-244370.
96. Department of Justice, October 5, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download; Boudreau and Dawsey, “Clovis Said to Be ‘Cooperative Witness.’ ”
97. Ibid.
98. Borzou Daragahi, “Papadopoulos And Flynn Client Both Tied To Israeli Energy Consortium,” BuzzFeed News, November 3, 2017, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/borzoudaragahi/papadopoulos-and-flynn-client-both-tied-to-israeli-energy.
99. Ibid.
100. Ibid.
101. Darren Samuelsohn, “Forget Rudy: Here Are Trump’s Fiercest Defenders,” Politico, June 9, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/09/trump-lawyers-joseph-digenova-victoria-toensing-634996.
102. Aaron Blake, “Sam Clovis’s really bad excuse for greenlighting a Trump campaign meeting with Russians,” Washington Post, October 31, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/10/31/sam-cloviss-really-bad-excuse-for-greenlighting-a-trump-campaign-meeting-with-russians/?utm_term=.80edb367da0e.
103. Alan Rappeport, “Top Experts Confounded by Advisers to Donald Trump,” New York Times, March 22, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-advisers.html.
104. Ibid.
105. Ibid.
106. Diamond and Gaouette, “Donald Trump Unveils Foreign Policy.”
107. Dion Nissenbaum, “Private Group Sought to Arm Syrian Rebels.”
108. Ibid.
109. “Donald Trump’s Top Foreign Adviser, Joseph Schmitz, Is a Former Blackwater Executive,” Democracy Now, March 25, 2016, https://www.democracynow.org/2016/3/25/donald_trumps_top_foreign_adviser_joseph.
110. Southern Poverty Law Center, March 2016.
111. Helderman, “Mueller Was Investigating.”
112. Ibid.
113. Sharon LaFraniere et al., “How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt,” New York Times, December 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html.
114. Helderman, “Mueller Was Investigating.”
115. Ibid.
116. David M. Weinberg, “Know Comment: The Donald’s Foreign Policy,” Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2016, https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Know-Comment-The-Donalds-foreign-policy-450602.
117. Amir Tibon and Allison Kaplan Sommer, “Trump Campaign Adviser Who Pled Guilty to Lying to FBI Has Surprising Ties to Israeli Settlers,” Haaretz, October 30, 2017, https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/george-papadopoulos-has-surprising-ties-to-israeli-settlers-1.5461531; Politico, March 2016, https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/03/trump-foreign-policy-team-221049.
118. Bertrand, “It looks like another Trump adviser has significantly changed his story”; Wilts, “Trump says he can’t ‘remember much.’ ”
119. Weinberg, “Know Comment.”
120. Mark Mazzetti et al., “Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met with Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election,” New York Times, May 19, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/us/politics/trump-jr-saudi-uae-nader-prince-zamel.html.
121. Alexander Murinson, “The Ties Between Israel and Azerbaijan,” BESA Center, October 2014, https://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/MSPS110-web.pdf
122. Ken Klippenstein, “Inside the Mysterious Intelligence Firm Now in Mueller’s Sights,” Daily Beast, June 4, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-mysterious-intelligence-firm-now-in-muellers-sights.
123. Daragahi, “Papadopoulos and Flynn Client”; ECFR website, https://www.ecfr.eu.
124. Margot Cleveland, “Here’s What We Can Glean from What George Papadopoulos’s Wife Is Telling Media,” Federalist, June 13, 2018, http://thefederalist.com/2018/06/13/heres-can-glean-george-papadopouloss-wife-telling-media/.
125. Ibid.
126. “Embattled ex Trump Adviser’s Cyprus Connection,” Cyprus Mail, November 5, 2017, https://cyprus-mail.com/2017/11/05/embattled-ex-trump-advisers-cyprus-connection/; Daragahi, “Papadopoulos And Flynn Client.”
127. Quineta Jurecic, “Document: George Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo,” Lawfare, August 17, 2018, https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-george-papadopoulos-sentencing-memo.
128. Sue Surkes, “Ex-Trump adviser was reportedly accused of being unregistered Israeli agent,” Times of Israel, June 7, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/ex-trump-adviser-was-reportedly-accused-of-being-unregistered-israeli-agent/; Tibon and Sommer, “Trump Campaign Adviser.”
129. Surkes, “Ex-Trump Adviser.”
130. Helderman, “Mueller Was Investigating.”
131. Ibid.; Twitter (Simona Mangiante account), August 16, 2018, https://twitter.com/simonamangiante/status/1030325912007585792; GoFundMe, August 2018, https://www.gofundme.com/rmjtv-legal-fees.
132. Katelyn Polantz and Caroline Kelly, “George Papadopoulos gets 14 days in prison,” CNN, September 8, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/george-papadopoulos-sentencing-hearing/index.html.
133. Mikhaila Fogel, “Document: George Papadopoulos Defense Team Sentencing Memo,” Lawfare, September 1, 2018, https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-george-papadopoulos-defense-team-sentencing-memo.
134. Ibid.
CHAPTER SIX: THE MAYFLOWER HOTEL
1. James Kirchick, “Donald Trump’s Russia Connection,” Politico (Europe), April 27, 2016, https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trumps-russia-connections-foreign-policy-presidential-campaign/.
2. “Donald Trump Delivers Foreign Policy Speech,” hosted by Center for the National Interest’s magazine, The National Interest, April 27, 2016, https://cftni.org/recent-events/donald-trump-delivers-foreign-policy-speech/.
3. Meghan Keneally, “A Closer Look at the Meetings with Russians the Trump Team Failed to Disclose,” ABC News, October 12, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/closer-meetings-russians-trump-team-failed-disclose/story?id=50397154.
4. Robert C. McFarlane, “The Global Oil Rush,” National Interest, June 1, 2006, https://nationalinterest.org/article/the-global-oil-rush-302?page=0%2C1.
5. Transcript of Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech, New York Times, as transcribed by Federal News Service, April 27, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/transcript-trump-foreign-policy.html.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. 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.
9. Caleb Melby et al., “Kushner Foreign Policy Role Grew After Kissinger Lunch,” Bloomberg, August 13, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-13/kushner-s-ties-to-russia-linked-group-began-with-kissinger-lunch.
10. Maria Butina, “The Bear and the Elephant,” National Interest, June 12, 2015, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-bear-the-elephant-13098.
11. Melby et al., “Kushner Foreign Plicy Role Grew After Kissinger Lunch.”
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Mark Hosenball, “Former Reagan Aide Helped Trump Write Foreign Policy Speech,” Reuters, June 8, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-adviser-idUSKCN0YU2I9.
16. Stephanie Kirchgaessner, “Lobbyist for Russian Interests Says He Attended Dinners Hosted by Sessions,” Guardian, June 15, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/15/lobbyist-russian-interests-jeff-sessions-testimony.
17. Sharon LaFrani
ere 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.
18. Jonathan Martin and Jeremy W. Peters, “Donald Trump to Reshape Image, New Campaign Chief Tells G.O.P.,” New York Times, April 21, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/us/politics/donald-trump-to-reshape-image-new-campaign-chief-tells-gop.html.
19. Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern, “Authorities Looked into Manafort Protégé,” Politico, March 8, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-russia-manafort-235850.
20. Ibid.
21. Aaron Blake, “ ‘How do we use [this] to get whole?’: The most intriguing new Paul Manafort-Russia email,” Washington Post, September 20, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/20/paul-manaforts-ominous-email-to-an-aide-how-do-we-use-this-to-get-whole/?utm_term=.dc24a252f363.
22. Aggelos Petropoulos and Richard Engel, “Manafort Had $60 million Relationship with a Russian Oligarch,” NBC News, October 13, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/manafort-had-60m-relationship-russian-oligarch-n810541.
23. Vogel and Stern, “Authorities Looked into Manafort Protégé.”
24. Ibid.
25. Sonam Sheth, “A Putin Ally’s Jet Arrived in the US Within Hours of a Meeting Between Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort and a Russian Operative,” Business Insider, March 30, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/oleg-deripaska-jet-arrived-in-us-after-manafort-kilimnik-meeting-2018-3.
26. Isaac Arnsdorf and Benjamin Oreskes, “Putin’s Favorite Congressman,” Politico, November 23, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/putin-congress-rohrabacher-trump-231775; CNN Staff, “Trump Tower Russia Meeting: At Least Eight People in the Room,” CNN, July 17, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/14/politics/donald-trump-jr-meeting/index.html.
27. Ibid.
28. Nicholas Fandos, “He’s a Member of Congress. The Kremlin Likes Him So Much, It Gave Him a Code Name,” New York Times, November 21, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-putin-trump-kremlin-under-fire.html.
29. Arnsdorf and Oreskes, “Putin’s Favorite Congressman.”
30. Jeremy Scahill, “Notorious Mercenary Erik Prince Is Advising Trump from the Shadows,” Intercept, January 17, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/notorious-mercenary-erik-prince-is-advising-trump-from-the-shadows/.
31. Jeremy Herb et al., “Democrats Grilled Erik Prince About Meeting Bannon Before Seychelles Trip,” CNN, December 6, 2017,https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/06/politics/erik-prince-steve-bannon-seychelles-meeting/index.html; House testimony of Erik Prince, U.S. House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, November 30, 2017, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20171130/106661/HHRG-115-IG00-Transcript-20171130.pdf.
32. Ned Parker and Jonathan Landay, “Exclusive: Trump Son-in-Law Had Undisclosed Contacts with Russian Envoy—Sources,” Reuters, May 26, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-kushner-exclusive-idUSKBN18N018.
33. Ibid.
34. “Jared Kushner’s Statement on Russia to Congressional Committees,” CNN, July 24, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/jared-kushner-statement-russia-2016-election/index.html; Melby et al., “Kushner Foreign Policy Role Grew after Kissinger Lunch.”
35. Philip Bump, “Timeline: How a Trump Adviser Tried to Work with the Russian Government,” Washington Post, October 30, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/10/30/timeline-how-a-trump-adviser-tried-to-work-with-the-russian-government/?utm_term=.b869dfa4de32.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Natasha Bertrand, “Clinton ‘Dirt,’ ” Business Insider, November 13, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/george-papadopoulos-stephen-miller-trump-russia-clinton-2017-11.
42. “Timeline.”
43. Sharon LaFraniere et al.,“How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt,” New York Times, December 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html.
44. Bump, “Timeline.”
45. Ibid.
46. Donald Trump, “The National Interest: Donald Trump Foreign Policy Speech,” National Press Club, April 27, 2016, https://www.press.org/events/national-interest-donald-trump-foreign-policy-speech-invitation-only; Jonathan Easley “Trump Changes Location of Foreign Policy Speech,” Hill, April 22, 2016, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/277308-trump-to-give-foreign-policy-speech-at-national-press-club; “Event Facilities Description,” National Press Club, https://www.press.org/services/event-facilities/main-level; “Event Space Chart,” Mayflower Hotel, https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/the-mayflower-hotel-autograph-collection/meetings.php.
47. Shadow Governance Intel, “The Mysterious Rosneft Deal and Its Consequences,” OilPrice.com, May 31, 2017, https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/International/The-Mysterious-Rosneft-Deal-And-Its-Consequences.html.
48. “The Steele Dossier,” Moscow Project, December 13, 2006, full Steele Dossier transcript, https://themoscowproject.org/dossier/.
49. Shadow Governance Intel, “The Mysterious Rosneft Deal And Its Consequences.”
50. Melby et al., “Kushner Foreign Policy Role Grew after Kissinger Lunch.”
51. MSNBC, “Donald Trump Lied About His Relationship With Vladimir Putin,” October 25, 2016, YouTube video, posted November 2, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=32&v=ZqCo8e459Vo.
52. Adam Entous et al., “Sessions Met With Russian Envoy Twice Last Year, Encounters He Later Did Not Disclose,” Washington Post, March 1, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-spoke-twice-with-russian-ambassador-during-trumps-presidential-campaign-justice-officials-say/2017/03/01/77205eda-feac-11e6-99b4-9e613afeb09f_story.html?utm_term=.d5b7accbc783.
53. Manu Raju et al., “Comey Told Senators Sessions May Have Met Russia’s Ambassador a Third Time,” CNN, June 8, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/08/politics/jeff-sessions-kislyak-meeting/.
54. Ibid.
55. “Jeff Sessions’ Prepared Remarks to Intelligence Committee,” Fox News, June 13, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/13/jeff-sessions-prepared-remarks-to-intelligence-committee.html.
56. Ibid.
57. Alice Ollstein, “What Really Happened at the Mayflower? Sessions Gives Conflicting Answers,” Talking Points Memo, June 13, 2017, https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sessions-mayflower-hotel-trump-kislyak-russia-senate.
58. Julia Ioffe, “Why Did Jeff Sessions Really Meet with Sergey Kislyak?” Atlantic, June 13, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/why-did-jeff-sessions-really-meet-sergey-kislyak/530091/.
59. Ibid.
60. Melby et al., “Kushner Foreign Policy Role Grew after Kissinger Lunch.”
61. Nicholas Fandos and Michael S. Schmidt, “Tantalizing Testimony From a Top Trump Aide Sets Off a Search for Proof,” New York Times, May 15, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/us/politics/john-mashburn-trump-russia-email-papadopoulos.html.
62. Kirchick, “Donald Trump’s Russia Connection.”
63. Ibid.
64. Fred Pleitgen, “Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech Earns Praise in Russia,” CNN, April 28, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/28/politics/donald-trump-russia-putin/index.html.
65. Ibid.
66. LaFraniere et al., “How the Russia Inquiry Began.”
67. Ibid.
68. Kirchick, “Donald Trump’s Russia Connection.”
69. Ibid.
70. “Transcript: Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Speech,” New York Times, April 27, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/us/politics/transcript-trump-foreign-policy.html.
71. Jonathan Chait, “Trump Is Fulfilling Russia’s Dream of Splitting the Western Alliance,” New York, June 8, 2018, http://nymag.
com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/trump-is-fulfilling-russias-dream-of-splitting-the-west.html.
72. Eric Lipton et al., “The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.,” New York Times, December 13, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=a-lede-package-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0.
73. Martin and Peters, “Donald Trump to Reshape Image, New Campaign Chief Tells G.O.P.”; Reuters, “Inside Donald Trump’s Image Makeover,” Newsweek, April 22, 2016, https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-image-makeover-foreign-policy-general-election-voters-popularity-451660.
74. Frank Jacobs, “How Donald Trump Sees the World—in Three Maps,” Big Think, April 25, 2016, https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/the-world-according-to-trump.
75. Easley, “Trump Changes Location of Foreign Policy Speech”; “Event Facilities Description,” National Press Club; “Event Space Chart,” Mayflower Hotel.
76. Martin and Peters, “Donald Trump to Reshape Image, New Campaign Chief Tells G.O.P.”
77. Ben Schreckinger and Nick Gass, “Trump Vows to Make America Strong Again,” Politico, April 27, 2016, https://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trump-foreign-policy-222537.
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. Ioffe, “Why Did Jeff Sessions Really Meet with Sergey Kislyak?”
81. Bertrand, “Clinton ‘Dirt.’ ”
82. Ibid.
83. Jacqueline Thomsen, “Ex-Trump Staffer at Center of Mueller Probe Sat Next to Sessions at Campaign Dinner: Report,” Hill, October 31, 2017, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/358152-ex-trump-staffer-sat-next-to-sessions-at-campaign-dinner-report.
84. LaFraniere et al., “How the Russia Inquiry Began.”
85. Ibid.
86. Francis Elliott, “Say Sorry to Trump or Risk Special Relationship, Cameron Told,” Times of London, May 4, 2016, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/say-sorry-to-trump-or-risk-special-relationship-cameron-told-h6ng0r7xj.
87. LaFraniere et al., “How the Russia Inquiry Began.”
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