77. Bertrand, “It looks like another Trump adviser.”
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. Johnson, “2016 RNC Delegate.”
81. Ibid.
82. Bertrand, “Former Trump adviser: I gave the campaign ‘the chance to intervene.’ ”
83. “Full text of “Carter Page November 2, 2017 HPSCI Testimony,” Internet Archive (digital library), November 2, 2017, https://archive.org/stream/CarterPageNovember22017HPSCITestimony/carter_page_hpsci_hearing_transcript_nov_2_2017_djvu.txt.
84. Steve Reilly, “Exclusive: Two other Trump advisers also spoke with Russian envoy during GOP convention,” USA Today, March 2, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/02/exclusive-two-other-trump-advisers-also-spoke-russian-envoy-during-gop-convention/98648190/.
85. Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak, “Inside Mar-a-Lago for 48 hours critical to the Russia investigation,” CNN, December 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/michael-flynn-donald-trump-mar-a-lago/index.html.
86. “Carter Page in Budapest,” Hungarian Spectrum, November 13, 2017, http://hungarianspectrum.org/tag/u-s-house-intelligence-committee/; “J. D. Gordon, Paul Behrends, Hungary and the Russian connection,” Hungarian Free Press, August 12, 2017, http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/08/12/j-d-gordon-paul-behrends-hungary-and-the-russian-connection/.
87. Emily Stewart, “Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina chatted with former Trump campaign aide ahead of the 2016 election,” Vox, August 4, 2018, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/4/17651234/maria-butina-jd-gordon-russia-trump.
CHAPTER NINE: THE HUNT FOR HER EMAILS
1. Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger, “ ‘You should do it’: Trump officials encouraged George Papadopoulos’s foreign outreach, documents show,” Washington Post, March 23, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/you-should-do-it-trump-officials-encouraged-george-papadopouloss-foreign-outreach-documents-show/2018/03/23/2dae8c8e-2d38-11e8-8688-e053ba58f1e4_story.html?utm_term=.c94a97ee206e.
2. Michael Shear and Michael S. Schmidt,“President Admits Trump Tower Meeting Was Meant to Get Dirt on Clinton,” New York Times, August 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/us/politics/trump-tower-meeting-donald-jr.html.
3. “George Papadopoulos: Sanctions have done little more than to turn Russia towards China,” Interfax, September 30, 2016, http://www.interfax.com/interview.asp?id=704556.
4. Steve Reilly, “Trump Campaign Gave Page Permission for Moscow Trip,” USA Today, March 7, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/07/campaign-granted-page-permission-moscow-trip/98874648/; Byron Tau, “Ex-Adviser Carter Page Told Trump Campaign of Moscow Trip,” Wall Street Journal, November 7, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/adviser-told-trump-campaign-of-moscow-trip-1510031679;Steeledossier.
5. Benjamin Siegel, “After months of public denials, Carter Page admits he told Trump officials about meeting with Russians,” ABC News, November 7, 2017, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/carter-page-told-trump-campaign-officials-moscow-trip/story?id=50977310.
6. Ibid.
7. Josh Meyer, “Investigators probe European travel of Trump associates,” Politico, November 6, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/06/trump-europe-russia-travel-281134; Artin Afkhami, “Timeline of Carter Page’s Contacts with Russia,” Just Security, February 5, 2018, https://www.justsecurity.org/46786/timeline-carter-pages-contacts-russia/.
8. Ibid.
9. Jenna McLaughlin et al., “Exclusive: Trump adviser played key role in pursuit of possible Clinton emails from dark web before election,” CNN, April 7, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/joseph-schmitz-trump-adviser-clinton-emails/index.html.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Matt Tait, “The Time I Got Recruited to Collude with the Russians,” Lawfare, June 30, 2017, https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Katherine Skiba et al., “Peter W. Smith, GOP operative who sought Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers, committed suicide, records show,” Chicago Tribune, July 13 2017, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-peter-smith-death-met-0713-20170713-story.html.
18. Michael S. Schmidt, “Trump Invited the Russians to Hack Clinton. Were They Listening?” New York Times, July 13, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/us/politics/trump-russia-clinton-emails.html.
19. Ibid.
20. Shimon Prokupecz et al., “Trump received first classified intelligence briefing Wednesday,” CNN, August 16, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/16/politics/donald-trump-intelligence-briefing/index.html.
21. David E. Sanger and Eric Schmitt, “Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C.,” New York Times, July 27, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/us/politics/spy-agency-consensus-grows-that-russia-hacked-dnc.html.
22. Ken Dilanian et al., “FBI warned Trump in 2016 Russians would try to infiltrate his campaign,” NBC News, December 18, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-warned-trump-2016-russians-would-try-infiltrate-his-campaign-n830596.
23. Gabrielle Healy, “Did Trump really mention WikiLeaks over 160 times in the last month of the election cycle?” PolitiFact, April 21, 2017, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/21/jackie-speier/did-trump-really-mention-wikileaks-over-160-times-/; Julia Ioffe, “The Secret Correspondence Between Donald Trump, Jr. and WikiLeaks,” Atlantic, November 13, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-secret-correspondence-between-donald-trump-jr-and-wikileaks/545738/; Natasha Bertrand, “Roger Stone’s Secret Messages with Wikileaks,” Atlantic, February 17, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/roger-stones-secret-messages-with-wikileaks/554432/; Benjamin Siegel and James Gordon Meek, “WikiLeaks Says Senate Intelligence Committee Wants to Question Julian Assange,” ABC News, August 9, 2018, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wikileaks-senate-intelligence-committee-question-julian-assange/story?id=57117270.
24. Greg Miller, “CIA director alerted FBI to pattern of contracts between Russian officials and Trump campaign associates,” Washington Post, May 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-director-warned-russian-security-service-chief-about-interference-in-election/2017/05/23/ebff2a7e-3fbb-11e7-adba-394ee67a7582_story.html?utm_term=.70fc0838f92b.
25. Philip Elliott, “How Donald Trump Fired and Hired Paul Manafort,” Time, October 31, 2017, http://time.com/5003298/paul-manafort-indictment-donald-trump.
26. Andrew E. Kramer et al., “Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief,” New York Times, August 15, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html.
27. Daily Beast, October 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-data-guru-i-tried-to-team-up-with-julian-assange.
28. Franklin Foer, “Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?” Slate, October 31, 2016, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html.
29. Pamela Brown and Jose Pagliery, “Sources: FBI investigation continues into ‘odd’ computer link between Russia bank and Trump Organization,” CNN, March 9, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/politics/fbi-investigation-continues-into-odd-computer-link-between-russian-bank-and-trump-organization/index.html.
30. Matthew Cole et al., “Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election,” Intercept, June 5, 2017, https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-hacking-effort-days-before-2016-election/.
31. Ibid.
32. Andy Greenberg, “The FBI Has Been Investigating Trump’s Russia Ties Since July,” Wired, March 2017, https://www.wired.com/2017/03/fbi-director-comey-confirms-investigation-trump-campaigns-russia-ties/; Washington Post, September 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=.09be971476f7.
33. 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.
34. Elizabeth Weise, “Tech Crowd Goes Wild for Trump’s ‘400-Pound Hacker,’ ” USA Today, September 27, 2016, https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/09/27/tech-crowd-goes-wild-trumps-400-pound-hacker/91168144/.
35. George Papadopoulos, “Sanctions have done little.”
36. Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb, “Email pointed Trump campaign to WikiLeaks documents,” CNN, December 8, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/08/politics/email-effort-give-trump-campaign-wikileaks-documents/index.html.
37. Artin Afkhami, “Timeline of Carter Page’s Contacts with Russia [Updated],” Just Security, February 5, 2018, https://www.justsecurity.org/46786/timeline-carter-pages-contacts-russia/.
38. Andras Gollner, “The Budapest Bridge: Hungary’s Role in the Collusion Between the Trump Campaign and the Russian Secret Service,” Hungarian Free Press, April 13, 2017, http://hungarianfreepress.com/2017/04/13/the-budapest-bridge-hungarys-role-in-the-collusion-between-the-trump-campaign-and-the-russian-secret-service/.
39. Luke Harding et al., “British spies were first to spot Trump team’s links with Russia,” Guardian, April 13, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/apr/13/british-spies-first-to-spot-trump-team-links-russia.
40. New York Times staff, “Former CIA Chief Tells of Concern Over Possible Russia Ties to Trump Campaign,” New York Times, May 23, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/us/politics/congress-testimony-john-brennan-russia-budget.html.
41. Department of Justice, October 5, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download.
42. AALEP, November 2017, http://www.aalep.eu/russian-sanctions-and-eu-member-states-stance.
43. John Hayward, “Erik Prince: NYPD Ready to Make Arrests in Anthony Weiner Case,” Breitbart News, November 4, 2016, https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/11/04/erik-prince-nypd-ready-make-arrests-weiner-case/.
44. Amanda Robb, “Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal,” Rolling Stone, November 16, 2017, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/.
45. Erik Prince, Congressional Testimony, November 30, 2017, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/20171130/106661/HHRG-115-IG00-Transcript-20171130.pdf.
46. Ibid.
47. Philip Bump, “Donald Trump’s falsehood-laden press conference, annotated,” Washington Post, July 27, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/27/donald-trumps-falsehood-laden-press-conference-annotated/?utm_term=.3f6d219ff5c4.
48. Tim Fernholz, “Why Donald Trump, Jr’s meeting with a Russian lawyer wasn’t just typical ‘opposition research,’ ” Quartz, July 12, 2017, https://qz.com/1026780/did-hillary-clinton-collude-with-ukraine-in-the-2016-presidential-election/.
49. 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.
CHAPTER TEN: THE OCTOBER SURPRISE
1. Amanda Robb, “Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal,” Rolling Stone, November 16, 2017, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/anatomy-of-a-fake-news-scandal-125877/; Nicholas Confessore and Daisuke Wakabayashi, “How Russia Harvested American Rage to Reshape U.S. Politics,” New York Times, October 9, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/russia-election-facebook-ads-rage.html.
2. “General Election: Trump vs. Clinton vs. Johnson vs. Stein,” RealClearPolitics, October 18, 2016, https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5952.html.
3. Nate Silver, “The Comey Letter Probably Cost Clinton the Election,” FiveThirtyEight, May 3, 2017, https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/.
4. Alex Isenstadt et al., “Inside Trump’s Stunning Upset Victory,” Politico, November 9, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-wins-2016-214438-.
5. Jonathan Chait, “Mueller’s New Indictment Points to Collusion With Russia,” New York, July 13, 2018, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/07/mueller-indictment-suggests-trump-colluding-with-russia.html; Andrew Prokop, “Roger Stone, explained: the longtime Trump adviser and dirty trickster is in Mueller’s sights,” Vox, July 16, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/7/16/17149324/roger-stone-mueller-trump-russia.
6. Prokop, “Roger Stone, explained”; Emily Birnbaum, “Roger Stone preemptively denies upcoming report on Trump’s knowledge of WikiLeaks dump,” Hill, August 27, 2018, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/403884-roger-stone-preemptively-denies-upcoming-report-that-will-say-he-told.
7. Marc Caputo, “Sources: Roger Stone quit, wasn’t fired by Trump in campaign shakeup,” Politico, August 8, 2015, https://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/sources-roger-stone-quit-wasnt-fired-by-donald-trump-in-campaign-shakeup-121177; Martin Longman, “The Story of Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Donald Trump,” Washington Monthly, February 23, 2018, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/02/23/the-story-of-roger-stone-paul-manafort-and-donald-trump/; Jonathan Chait, “Roger Stone Knew in Advance About the Stolen Emails. Did He Tell Trump?” New York, March 13, 2018, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/roger-stone-knew-about-the-stolen-emails-did-he-tell-trump.html.
8. Chait, “Roger Stone knew.”
9. Ibid.
10. Manuel Roig-Franzia and Rosalind S. Helderman, “Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign,” Washington Post, June 17, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-associate-roger-stone-reveals-new-contact-with-russian-national-during-2016-campaign/2018/06/17/4a8123c8-6fd0-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html?utm_term=.e7d5dca207be.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.; David Smiley and Glenn Garvin, “Mystery Miamian tied to Trump probe had many names, foul mouth, 2 DUI busts,” Miami Herald, June 19, 2018, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article213359854.html.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Gideon Resnick, “Roger Stone Convinced Trump to Hire Paul Manafort, Former Officials Say,” Daily Beast, April 21, 2017, https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-convinced-trump-to-hire-paul-manafort-former-officials-say.
17. Gabrielle Healy, “Did Trump really mention WikiLeaks over 160 times in the last month of the election cycle?” PolitiFact, April 21, 2017, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/apr/21/jackie-speier/did-trump-really-mention-wikileaks-over-160-times-/.
18. Staff, “Roger Stone Confirms That He’s In Communication With Julian Assange,” Media Matters, August 9, 2016, https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/09/roger-stone-confirms-hes-communication-julian-assange/212261.
19. Andrew Kaczynski et al.,“Trump adviser Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to know of forthcoming WikiLeaks dumps,” CNN, March 20, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/20/politics/kfile-roger-stone-wikileaks-claims/index.html.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Natasha Bertrand, “Roger Stone’s Secret Messages with Wikileaks,” Atlantic, February 27, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/02/roger-stones-secret-messages-with-wikileaks/554432/; Sara Murray, “Mueller subpoenas Randy Credico, who Roger Stone says was his WikiLeaks back channel,” CNN, August 10, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/10/politics/randy-credico-roger-stone-wikileaks/index.html.
26. Martin Longman, “Inside the Dirty Tricks of Roger Stone,” Washington Monthly, April 19, 2018, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/04/19/inside-the-dirty-tricks-of-roger-st
one/.
27. Sara Murray and Caroline Kelly, “Stone’s alleged Assange conduit expects to be subpoenaed,” CNN, June 25, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/stone-credico-assange-wikileaks-expects-subpoena/.
28. Kaczynski et al.,“Trump adviser Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to know.”
29. Bertrand, “Roger Stone’s Secret Messages with Wikileaks.”
30. Ibid.
31. Kaczynski et al., “Trump adviser Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to know.”
32. Jessie Hellman, “Roger Stone: Wednesday will be end of Clinton’s campaign,” Hill, October 2, 2016, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298883-roger-stone-threatens-wednesday-will-be-end-of-clinton.
33. Kaczynski et al., “Trump adviser Roger Stone repeatedly claimed to know.”
34. Jenna McLaughlin, “Wikileaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During US Presidential Campaign,” Foreign Policy, August 17, 2017, https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/.
35. Bob Dreyfuss, “Was the Trump Campaign Working With WikiLeaks and the Russians to Undermine the Clinton Campaign?” Nation, November 17, 2017, https://www.thenation.com/article/was-the-trump-campaign-working-with-wikileaks-and-the-russians-to-undermine-the-clinton-campaign/.
36. Micah Lee and Cora Currier, “In Leaked Chats, Wikileaks Discusses Preference for GOP Over Clinton, Russia, Trolling, and Feminists They Don’t Like,” Intercept, February 2018, https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/.
37. Michal Kranz, “Over 10,000 private Twitter messages from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have been leaked—read Assange’s thoughts on Hillary Clinton, Russia, and Chelsea Manning,” Business Insider, February 14, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/highlights-from-julian-assanges-leaked-twitter-messages-2018-2.
38. Ibid.
39. Alex Isenstadt et al., “Inside Trump’s Stunning Upset Victory,” Politico, November 9, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-wins-2016-214438.
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