by Joe Walsh
9. Ibid., 134.
10. Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni, and Eric Schmitt, “Trump Urged Homeland Security Official to Close Border Despite an Earlier Promise of a Delay,” New York Times, April 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/trump-border.html.
11. Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land’: President Trump Wants a Border Wall. He Wants It Black. And He Wants It by Election Day,” Washington Post, August 27, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/2019/08/27/37b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html.
12. “Excerpts from the Times’s Interview with Trump,” New York Times, July 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html.
13. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 25, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889790429398528000.
14. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 26, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890207082926022656; tweet, July 26, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890208319566229504.
15. Jordain Carney, “GOP Senator: Cuccinelli Couldn’t Win Senate Confirmation,” The Hill, June 10, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/447779-gop-senator-cuccinelli-couldnt-win-senate-confirmation.
16. “Transcript: President Trump on ‘Face the Nation,’ ” February 3, 2019, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-president-trump-on-face-the-nation-february-3-2019/.
17. Tim Alberta, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (New York: Harper, 2019), 347.
18. “Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States,” White House, February 15, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-southern-border-united-states/.
19. Miroff and Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land.’ ”
Chapter 3: The Constitution Breaker, Part Two
1. “Freedom of Expression,” ACLU. https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression.
2. “Fake News,” Trump Twitter Archive, http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/fake%20news/ftff/1-20-2017_9-21-2019. “enemy of the people,” Trump Twitter Archive, http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/enemy%20of%20the%20people/ftff/1-20-2017_9-21-2019. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Renews Pledge to ‘Take a Strong Look’ at Libel Laws,” New York Times, January 10, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/business/media/trump-libel-laws.html. Margaret Harding McGill and Daniel Lippman, “White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-conservative Bias,” Politico, August 7, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051. Corinne Ramey, “President Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users, Federal Appeals Court Rules,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-trump-cant-block-twitter-users-federal-appeals-court-rules-11562685206. Mathew Ingram, “White House Revokes Press Passes for Dozens of Journalists,” Columbia Journalism Review, May 9, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/white-house-press-passes.php. Mike Calia, “Trump Calls for a Boycott of AT&T to Force ‘Big Changes’ at CNN,” CNBC, June 3, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/trump-calls-for-a-boycott-of-att-to-force-big-changes-at-cnn.html.
3. Jon Allsop, “A Circus, and What Matters,” Columbia Journalism Review, July 12, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump-social-media-summit.php.
4. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the Presidential Social Media Summit,” White House, July 11, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-presidential-social-media-summit/.
5. Howard Kurtz, Michael Dobbs, and James V. Grimaldi, “In Rush to Air, CBS Quashed Memo Worries,” Washington Post, September 19, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31727-2004Sep18.html.
6. Howard Witt, “True or False: Blogs Always Tell It Straight,” Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-09-19-0409190265-story.html.
7. “United States District Court, Southern District of New York,” PEN AMERICAN CENTER, INC., v. Donald J. Trump, February 6, 2019, https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PEN-America-v-Trump-Amended-Complaint-2.6.19.pdf, 6.
8. Michael M. Grynbaum and Elizabeth Williamson, “Trump Administration Uses Misleading Video to Justify Barring of CNN’s Jim Acosta,” New York Times, November 8, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/business/media/infowars-white-house-jim-acosta-cnn.html.
9. Dana Milbank, “The White House Revoked My Press Pass. It’s Not Just Me—It’s Curtailing Access for All Journalists,” Washington Post, May 8, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-has-revoked-my-press-pass-its-not-just-me—its-curtailing-access-for-all-journalists/2019/05/08/bb9794b4-71c0-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html.
10. David Jackson, “Donald Trump Says He May Revoke Press Credentials for Other Reporters, Not Just CNN’s Jim Acosta,” USA Today, November 9, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/09/donald-trump-threatens-other-reporters-white-house-press-passes/1942013002/.
11. Milbank, “The White House Revoked My Press Pass. It’s Not Just Me—It’s Curtailing Access for All Journalists.”
12. Byron Tau, “Judge Grants CNN’s Motion to Restore Jim Acosta’s White House Press Pass,” Wall Street Journal, November 16, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/judge-grants-cnns-motion-to-restore-jim-acostas-white-house-press-pass-1542381937.
13. “Gorka to Karem: ‘You’re Not a Journalist, You’re a Punk,’ ” Washington Post, July 11, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRogWTuS5HI.
14. Josh Gerstein, “Judge Tells White House to Reinstate Reporter’s Pass,” Politico, September 3, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/judge-press-pass-brian-karem-1479990.
15. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 24, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/824078417213747200.
16. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 1, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/881273362454118400.
17. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, December 9, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/939485131693322240.
18. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1002954515941941249.
19. Amy B. Wang, “Trump Retweets Image Depicting ‘CNN Squashed Beneath His Shoe,’ ” Washington Post, December 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/24/trump-retweets-image-depicting-cnn-squashed-beneath-his-shoe/.
20. “Trump Retweets, Deletes Questionable Posts,” CNN, August 15, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/08/15/donald-trump-twitter-train-cnn-logo-delete.cnn.
21. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 2, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680.
22. Jon Allsop, “A Deadly Year for Mexico’s Journalists,” Columbia Journalism Review, August 27, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/mexico_journalist_murders.php; Carolina de Assis, “Brazilian Journalists Receive Death Threats After Publishing Reports Critical of the Armed Forces,” Journalism in the Americas, April 11, 2019, https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-20719-brazilian-journalists-receive-death-threats-after-publishing-reports-critical-armed-fo.
23. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 3, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1135499002626154496.
24. Sean Spicer, “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer,” White House, January 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-sean-spicer/.
25. Brian Stelter, “Donald Trump Rips into Possible Warner Deal,” CNN, October 22, 2016, https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/media/donald-trump-att-time-warner/.
26. Brent Kendall and Drew FitzGerald, “Justice Department Files Lawsuit Challenging AT&T–Tim
e Warner Deal,” Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-expected-to-file-lawsuit-challenging-at-t-time-warner-deal-1511210955.
27. Jane Mayer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” The New Yorker, March 11, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house.
28. Ibid.
29. David Shepardson, “White House Will Not Turn Over Documents on AT&T–Time Warner Merger,” Reuters, April 16, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-time-warner-at-t-congress/white-house-will-not-turn-over-documents-on-att-time-warner-merger-idUSKCN1RS28R.
30. Jan Wolfe, “Trump Threatens to Sue CNN, Seeks ‘Substantial’ Payment over Damages: Letter,” Reuters, October 18, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cnn/trump-threatens-to-sue-cnn-seeks-substantial-payment-over-damages-letter-idUSKBN1WX2B1.
31. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 9, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1137702218835136517.
32. “Former Sheriff David Clarke Temporarily Blocked from Tweeting Due to His Caustic Threats,” Wisconsin Gazette, January 5, 2018, https://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/political/former-sheriff-david-clarke-temporarily-blocked-from-tweeting/article_3c4d0c2a-f1b0-11e7-be93-63a875edfe99.html.
33. Ryan Mac and Blake Montgomery, “Twitter Suspended Proud Boys’ and Founder Gavin McInnes’ Accounts Ahead of the ‘Unite the Right’ Rally,” BuzzFeed News, August 11, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/twitter-suspends-proud-boys-and-founder-gavin-mcinnes.
34. Amy Forliti, “Actor James Woods Bashes Twitter After Getting Locked Out,” Associated Press, September 23, 2018, https://apnews.com/2909e6d34b1c4d18bfac5cd186a54095.
35. Linda Givetash, “Laura Loomer Banned from Twitter After Criticizing Ilhan Omar,” NBC, November 22, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/laura-loomer-banned-twitter-after-criticizing-ilhan-omar-n939256.
36. Gus Garcia-Roberts, “Twitter Bans Trump-Supporting Hoaxter After USA TODAY Exposé,” USA Today, February 26, 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/26/jacob-wohl-spread-lies-mueller-rbg-twitter-just-banned-him/2995037002/.
37. Brian Fung, “White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship,” CNN Business, August 10, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/tech/white-house-social-media-executive-order-fcc-ftc/index.html.
38. McGill and Lippman, “White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-conservative Bias.”
39. Jeffrey Gottfried, Galen Stocking, and Elizabeth Grieco, “Appendix B: Political Party Detailed Tables (2016–2018),” Pew Research Center, September 25, 2018, https://www.journalism.org/2018/09/25/news-media-attitudes-appendix-b-political-party-detailed-tables/.
40. Sam Stein, “New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media,” The Daily Beast, August 8, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-poll-43-of-republicans-want-to-give-trump-the-power-to-shut-down-media.
41. Bryant-Jon Anteola, “Fresno State Professor Stirs Outrage, Calls Barbara Bush an ‘Amazing Racist,’ ” Fresno Bee, April 17, 2018, https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209197719.html.
42. Patrick Hofstetter, “Remove Randa Jarrar from Fresno State University for Racist Comments,” Change.org, 2018. https://www.change.org/p/california-state-university-remove-randa-jarrar-from-fresno-state-university-for-racist-comments.
43. Ben Shapiro, “Here’s Why That Nasty Fresno State Professor Shouldn’t Be Fired for Her Gross Barbara Bush Tweet,” The Daily Wire, April 19, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/29616/heres-why-nasty-fresno-state-professor-shouldnt-be-ben-shapiro.
Chapter 4: The Enemy of Democracy
1. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157306452228366336.
2. Robert Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” vol. 2, US Department of Justice, March 2019, https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Muelller-Report-Redacted-Vol-II-Released-04.18.2019-Word-Searchable.-Reduced-Size.pdf, 3, 44.
3. Ibid., 85, 86, 88.
4. Ibid., 114, 115–16, 118.
5. such as like Quinta Jurecic, the managing editor of Lawfare, deserve a lot of credit for isolating these incidents from the report and explaining them to the public; see Jurecic, “Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map,” Lawfare, April 21, 2019. https://www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map.
6. “Former Republican Federal Prosecutors Speak Out Against President Trump’s Obstruction of Justice,” Republicans for the Rule of Law, May 30, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnMpneFR34.
7. Ibid.
8. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 9, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1148559443845668864.
9. Canadian Press, “ ‘I Can’t Kill These People,’ Trump Says of Canadian Government as NAFTA Deadline Looms,” iHeart Radio, August 31, 2018, https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/i-can-t-kill-these-people-trump-says-of-canadian-government-as-nafta-deadline-looms-1.7075888.
10. “Top Trading Partners—December 2018,” United States Census Bureau, August 29, 2019, https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1812yr.html.
11. Jim Gomez, “Rights Group Calls Duterte’s Drug War Crime Against Humanity,” Associated Press, July 8, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/e54b1bede70846dca1b3ba269563eba2.
12. Uri Friedman, “Turkey’s Referendum: How Democracies Decline,” The Atlantic, April 17, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/turkey-referendum-democracy/523257/.
13. Susan B. Glasser, “How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe,” The New Yorker, December 17, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/how-trump-made-war-on-angela-merkel-and-europe.
14. Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper, “Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. from NATO, Aides Say amid New Concerns over Russia,” New York Times, January 14, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html.
15. “North Korea Profile,” Freedom in the World 2018, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/north-korea.
16. “Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Human Rights Council, United Nations, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/108/66/PDF/G1410866.pdf?OpenElement, 12.
17. Tammy Auber, “Trump Explains Kim Jong Un’s Murderous Brutality: ‘He’s Tough,’ ” Mediaite, June 13, 2018, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-dodges-when-confronted-on-kims-brutality-a-lot-of-other-people-have-done-bad-things-too/.
18. F. Brinley Bruton, “Trump on Otto Warmbier’s Death: Kim Jong Un Wasn’t to Blame,” NBC News, February 28, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-otto-warmbier-death-kim-jong-un-wasn-t-blame-n977516.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 25, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132459370816708608.
20. “Trump: Trump on Kim: Tough Talk . . . ‘and Then We Fell in Love,’ ” Associated Press, September 30, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/4d56f6e8f99d4eefb2f22b7a6dd072d0.
21. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157306452228366336.
22. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, October 1, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178986524630802432.
23. Nectar Gan, “Want to Escape Poverty? Replace Pictures of Jesus with Xi Jinping, Christian Villagers Urged,” South China Morning Post, November 14, 2017, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2119699/praise-xi-jinping-not-jesus-escape-poverty-christian.
24. Christopher Bodeen, “Group: Officials Destroying Crosses, Burning Bibles in China,” Associated Press, September 10, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/c09b2ee4b71540c8a7fd6178820c5970; Chris Buckley, “China’s Prisons Swell Afte
r Deluge of Arrests Engulfs Muslims,” New York Times, August 31, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/world/asia/xinjiang-china-uighurs-prisons.html.
25. Congressional-Executive Commission on China—Annual Report 2018, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, October 10, 2018, https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/Annual%20Report%202018_2.pdf, 2.
26. “China’s Xi Allowed to Remain ‘President for Life’ as Term Limits Removed,” BBC, March 11, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276.
27. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 14, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1161774305895694336.
28. ” ‘They Just Kill.’: Ongoing Extrajudicial Executions and Other Violations in the Philippines’ ‘War Against Drugs,’ ” Amnesty International, 2019, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA3505782019ENGLISH.PDF; Matthew Tostevin and Neil Jerome Morales, “War on Numbers: Philippines Targets Drug Killing Data,” Reuters, July 18, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs/war-on-numbers-philippines-targets-drug-killing-data-idUSKCN1UD1CJ.
29. “Transcript of Call Between President Trump and Philippine President Duterte,” Washington Post, May 2, 2017, https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/transcript-of-call-between-president-trump-and-philippine-president-duterte/2446/.
30. “Turkey Country Report,” Freedom in the World 2019, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/turkey.
31. “Remarks by President Trump and President Erdoğan of Turkey Before Bilateral Meeting,” White House, September 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-erdogan-turkey-bilateral-meeting/.
32. “Remarks by President Trump and President Erdoğan of Turkey Before Bilateral Meeting—Osaka, Japan,” White House, June 29, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-erdogan-turkey-bilateral-meeting-osaka-japan.
33. Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom), tweet, July 16, 2018, https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1018886553278525440.