by Joe Walsh
5. Joshua Gillin, “Bush Says Trump Was a Democrat Longer than a Republican ‘in the Last Decade,’ ” PolitiFact, August 24, 2015, https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/aug/24/jeb-bush/bush-says-trump-was-democrat-longer-republican-las/.
6. Phil Hirschkorn, “Trump Proposes Massive One-Time Tax on the Rich,” CNN, November 9, 1999, https://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/09/trump.rich/index.html?_s=PM:ALLPOLITICS.
7. Philip Bump, “Donald Trump Took 5 Different Positions on Abortion in 3 Days,” Washington Post, April 3, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/03/donald-trumps-ever-shifting-positions-on-abortion/.
8. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, November 13, 2012, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/268431151666954241.
9. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 13, 2012, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/157918533655871488.
10. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, September 7, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1170469618177236992.
11. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 4, 2014, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/474134260149157888/?.
12. Gregg, “Judd Gregg: Trump Is the Almost, Occasionally, Pretty Close to Socialist Policy Guy.”
13. Phyllis Schlafly, The Conservative Case for Trump (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2016).
14. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference,” White House, February 23, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-conservative-political-action-conference-2/.
15. ” ‘This Week’ Transcript: Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump,” ABC News, January 31, 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-hillary-clinton-sen-bernie-sanders-donald/story?id=36619138.
16. “Republican Candidates Debate in Houston, Texas,” American Presidency Project, February 25, 2016, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/republican-candidates-debate-houston-texas.
17. Ibid.
18. Kevin Liptak, “Trump: ‘Nobody Knew Health Care Could Be So Complicated,’ ” CNN, February 28, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/politics/trump-health-care-complicated/index.html.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, March 26, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1110586787808903168.
20. Alex Wayne (@aawayne), tweet, March 26, 2019, https://twitter.com/aawayne/status/1110613053404602370.
21. Judy Woodruff, “George Will on American Conservatism and Trump’s ‘Lasting Damage,’ ” PBS NewsHour, July 22, 2019, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/george-will-on-american-conservatism-and-trumps-lasting-damage.
22. Ezra Klein, “George Will Makes the Conservative Case Against Democracy,” Vox, July 18, 2019. https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast/2019/7/18/20698397/george-will-conservative-sensibility-republicans-donald-trump.
23. Mark Muro, Robert Maxim, and Jacob Whiton, “Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How Machines Are Affecting People and Places,” Brookings Institution, January 24, 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/research/automation-and-artificial-intelligence-how-machines-affect-people-and-places/.
Chapter 9: Fixing the Debt
1. Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, “Transcript: Donald Trump Interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa,” Washington Post, April 2, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/02/transcript-donald-trump-interview-with-bob-woodward-and-robert-costa/.
2. Stephen Gandel, “Donald Trump in His Own Words: Atlantic City to the White House,” Fortune, April 21, 2016, https://fortune.com/2016/04/21/donald-trump-q-and-a/.
3. Woodward and Costa, “Transcript: Donald Trump Interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.”
4. “Remarks by President Trump, President Moon, Commerce Secretary Ross, and NEC Director Cohn in Bilateral Meeting,” White House Remarks, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-moon-commerce-secretary-ross-nec-director-cohn-bilateral-meeting/.
5. “Did the Trade Deficit Cause $20 Trillion in Debt?,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, July 6, 2017, https://www.crfb.org/blogs/did-trade-deficit-cause-20-trillion-debt.
6. Marin Cogan, “GOP Frosh: Obama Budget a ‘Joke,’ ” Politico, February 14, 2011, https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/gop-frosh-obama-budget-a-joke-049481.
7. “The CBS News Republican Debate Transcript, Annotated,” Washington Post, February 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/13/the-cbs-republican-debate-transcript-annotated/.
8. Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, “A Summary of the 2019 Annual Reports,” Social Security Administration, https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/.
9. “Gross Domestic Product, Fourth Quarter and Annual 2018 (Initial Estimate),” Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, February 28, 2019, https://www.bea.gov/news/2019/initial-gross-domestic-product-4th-quarter-and-annual-2018.
10. Asawin Suebsaeng and Lachlan Markay, “Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up,” The Daily Beast, March 14, 2019, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-on-coming-debt-crisis-i-wont-be-here-when-it-blows-up.
11. “Fix the National Debt,” Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, http://www.crfb.org/debtfixer/.
12. Social Security and Medicare Boards of Trustees, “A Summary of the 2019 Annual Reports.”
13. Suebsaeng and Markay, “Trump on Coming Debt Crisis: ‘I Won’t Be Here’ When It Blows Up.”
14. Ibid.
15. House Freedom Caucus (@freedom caucus), tweet, February 7, 2018, https://twitter.com/freedomcaucus/status/961398045022871552.
16. Eliza Collins, “As Paul Ryan Turns to Democrats for Votes, Conservatives Fume over Budget Deal,” USA Today, February 8, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/08/paul-ryan-turns-democrats-votes-conservatives-fume-over-budget-deal/320248002/.
17. Mark Meadows, “House Freedom Caucus Opposes Budget Agreement,” July 23, 2019, https://meadows.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=3058.
18. Ramsey Touchberry, “23 Senate Republicans Break with Donald Trump over Massive Budget Deal,” Newsweek, August 1, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-rebuke-massive-trump-backed-budget-deal-measure-passes-1452139.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 1, 2019. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1156935288322699265?lang=en.
20. “POTUS Rescission Transmittal Package,” White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/POTUS-Rescission-Transmittal-Package-5.8.2018.pdf.
21. Michelle Lee, “Fact Check: Has Trump Declared Bankruptcy Four or Six Times?,” Washington Post, September 26, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2016/live-updates/general-election/real-time-fact-checking-and-analysis-of-the-first-presidential-debate/fact-check-has-trump-declared-bankruptcy-four-or-six-times/.
Chapter 10: Fixing Trade
1. Donald Trump, “The America We Deserve,” (Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2000). https://books.google.com/books?id=PV6qZU_xev8C&q=world+war+II#v=snippet&q=enemies%20in%20world%20war%20II&f=false.
2. Donald J. Trump, Time to Get Tough: Make America Great Again! (Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 31.
3. Dylan Matthews, “Zero-Sum Trump,” Vox, January 19, 2017, https://www.vox.com/a/donald-trump-books.
4. “Section 201 Cases: Imported Large Residential Washing Machines and Imported Solar Cells and Modules,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/201%20FactSheet.pdf.
5. “Public Law 87-794,” US Government Printing Office, October 11, 1962, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-76/pdf/STATUTE-76-Pg872.pdf, 872; “Presidential Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Steel into the United States,” White House, March 8, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-adjusting-imports-steel-united-states/; �
��Presidential Proclamation on Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the United States,” White House, March 8, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-adjusting-imports-aluminum-united-states/.
6. “What You Need to Know About Implementing Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and the European Union,” White House, May 31, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/need-know-implementing-steel-aluminum-tariffs-canada-mexico-european-union/.
7. “Trade Act of 1974,” US House of Representatives, August 6, 2018, https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/93-618.pdf, 195, 191.
8. Donald J. Trump, “Statement by the President Regarding Trade with China,” White House, June 15, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-regarding-trade-china/.
9. Donald J. Trump, “Statement from the President,” White House, September 17, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-from-the-president-4/.
10. “Statement by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Section 301 Action,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, May 10, 2019, https://ustr.gov/about-us/policy-offices/press-office/press-releases/2019/may/statement-us-trade-representative.
11. Caitlain Devereaux Lewis, “Presidential Authority over Trade: Imposing Tariffs and Duties,” Congressional Research Service, December 9, 2016, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44707.pdf, 1.
12. Erica York, Kyle Pomerleau, and Scott Eastman, “Tracking the Economic Impact of U.S. Tariffs and Retaliatory Actions,” Tax Foundation, May 31, 2019, https://taxfoundation.org/tariffs-trump-trade-war/.
13. Rick Newman, “Trump’s Trade War Has Killed 300,000 Jobs,” Yahoo! Finance, September 10, 2019, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-trade-war-has-killed-300000-jobs-194717808.html.
14. Dion Rabouin, “Trump’s Trade War Is Being Felt Throughout the Economy,” Axios, September 12, 2019, https://www.axios.com/trumps-trade-war-is-being-felt-throughout-the-economy-cf192439-cd83-4bfa-a9b8-a28e4659d8b1.html.
15. “2019 Footwear Tariff Letter,” Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, May 20, 2019, https://fdra.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Footwear-Tariff-Letter-1.pdf.
16. Mary Catherine Wellons, “The $400 Billion Outdoor Industry Sounds Alarm on Trump’s Trade War Tariffs,” CNBC, September 13, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/13/the-400-billion-outdoor-industry-sounds-alarm-on-trumps-trade-war.html.
17. Richard Waters, “How the Trade War Is Damaging the US Tech Industry,” Financial Times, August 15, 2019, https://www.ft.com/content/16fa93ba-bf69-11e9-b350-db00d509634e.
18. “China Trade Standstill More Bad News for Farmers,” American Farm Bureau Federation, August 5, 2019, https://www.fb.org/newsroom/china-trade-standstill-more-bad-news-for-farmers.
19. “China: Top Market for U.S. Ag Exports,” Minnesota Department of Agriculture, https://www.mda.state.mn.us/sites/default/files/inline-files/profilechina.pdf.
20. Kamron Daugherty and Hui Jiang, “Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade,” United States Department of Agriculture, May 30, 2019, https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/93215/aes-108.pdf?v=5416.2.
21. Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc), tweet, March 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/i/moments/969519906097106944?lang=en.
22. “Farm Policy: USDA’s 2018 Trade Aid Package,” Homeland Security Digital Library, June 19, 2019, https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=826586.
23. “USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption,” U.S. Department of Agriculture, May 23, 2019, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/05/23/usda-announces-support-farmers-impacted-unjustified-retaliation-and.
24. Ibid.
25. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 10, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1126833126179840000.
26. “China—Agricultural Industry,” International Trade Administration, July 30, 2019, https://www.export.gov/article?id=China-Agricultural-Sectors.
27. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 10, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1126815126584266753?lang=en.
28. Nahal Toosi, “Trump Plan Would Steer Foreign Aid to ‘Friends and Allies,’ ” Politico, September 6, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/06/trump-foreign-aid-allies-1483788.
29. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 23, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1153634372442107904.
30. Alan Rappeport, “Farmers’ Frustration with Trump Grows as U.S. Escalates China Fight,” New York Times, August 27, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/us/politics/trump-farmers-china-trade.html. During that same forum, Perdue joked, “What do you call two farmers in a basement? A whine cellar.”
31. Alan Rappeport, “U.S. Rolls Out More Farm Aid as Soy Growers Urge Trade Cease-Fire,” New York Times, July 25, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/farm-aid-trade-wars.html.
32. Steve Karnowski and Balint Szalai, “Some Big Farms Collect Big Checks from Trump Aid Package,” Associated Press, July 3, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/c40f92fefbac487fb2a0bb8f9a5b6643.
33. James MacPherson, “Economist: New Trump Farm Aid May Be Distributed More Fairly,” Associated Press, July 26, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/c753b1f7330443728dc5e4cc8b7be2dd.
34. “USDA Announces Support for Farmers Impacted by Unjustified Retaliation and Trade Disruption,” US Department of Agriculture, May 23, 2019, https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2019/05/23/usda-announces-support-farmers-impacted-unjustified-retaliation-and.
35. P. J. Huffstutter, “Trump Trade-War Aid Sows Frustration in Farm Country,” Reuters, September 13, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-china-aid/trump-trade-war-aid-sows-frustration-in-farm-country-idUSKCN1VY0ZT.
36. Alan Rappeport, “Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself,” New York Times, October 16, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/16/us/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara.html.
37. Tom Bartlett, “Trump’s ‘China Muse’ Has an Imaginary Friend,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 15, 2019, https://www.chronicle.com/interactives/20191015-navarro.
38. Scott Horsley, “White House Adviser Peter Navarro Calls Fictional Alter Ego an ‘Inside Joke,’ ” NPR, October 18, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2019/10/18/771396016/white-house-adviser-peter-navarro-calls-fictional-alter-ego-an-inside-joke.
39. Bob Sellers, “Tariff Man: Behind Trump Economic Advisor Peter Navarro’s Long Quest to Ratchet Up the Trade War with China,” Fortune, August 27, 2019, https://fortune.com/2019/08/27/tariff-man-behind-trump-economic-advisor-peter-navarros-long-quest-to-ratchet-up-the-trade-war-with-china/.
40. Josh Dawsey and Damian Paletta, “ ‘My Peter’: Rising Influence of Controversial Trump Trade Adviser Navarro Concerns His Critics,” Washington Post, June 12, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-peter-rising-influence-of-controversial-trump-trade-adviser-navarro-concerns-his-critics/2019/06/12/e4fcb81c-8b96-11e9-b162-8f6f41ec3c04_story.html.
41. Melissa Chan, “Trump’s Top China Expert Isn’t a China Expert,” Foreign Policy, March 13, 2017, https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/13/peter-navarro-profile-national-trade-council-donald-trump-china-expert/.
42. Annie Lowrey, “The ‘Madman’ Behind Trump’s Trade Theory,” The Atlantic, December 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/peter-navarro-trump-trade/573913/.
Chapter 11: Fixing Immigration
1. Politico (@politico), tweet, January 10, 2019, https://twitter.com/politico/status/1083448877666193409.
2. Michelle Hackman, “U.S. Immigration Courts’ Backlog Exceeds One Million Cases,” Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-immigration-courts-backlog-exceeds-one-million-cases-11568845885.
3. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (New York: Crown Publishers, 2006), 268.
4. Fact Checker, “In 993 Days, President Trump has Made 13,435 False or Misleading Claims,” Washing
ton Post, October 9, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/.
5. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 14, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1150381395078000643.
6. Z. Byron Wolf, “Trump’s Attacks on Judge Curiel Are Still Jarring to Read,” CNN, February 27, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/judge-curiel-trump-border-wall/index.html.
7. “Remarks by President Trump and President Mattarella of the Italian Republic Before Bilateral Meeting,” White House, October 16, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-mattarella-italian-republic-bilateral-meeting/.
8. This specific wording came from a rally in San Jose on June 2, 2016; see Miriam Valverde, “Donald Trump Stalls on Promise to Build a Wall, Have Mexico Pay for It,” PolitiFact, January 14, 2019, https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1397/build-wall-and-make-mexico-pay-it/.
9. “Homeland Security Secretary Confirmation Hearing,” C-SPAN, January 10, 2017, https://www.c-span.org/video/?421234-1/homeland-security-nominee-general-john-kelly-testifies-confirmation-hearing.
10. “Written Testimony of DHS Secretary John F. Kelly for a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Hearing Titled ‘Improving Border Security and Public Safety,’ ” US Department of Homeland Security, April 5, 2017, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/04/05/written-testimony-dhs-secretary-kelly-senate-committee-homeland-security-and.
11. Donald Judd, “Kelly Dismisses Need for Wall Along Full U.S. Mexico Border,” CNN, March 7, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/07/politics/john-kelly-border-wall/index.html.
12. Jerry Markon and Dan Lamothe, “Retired Marine Gen. John Kelly Picked to Head Homeland Security,” Washington Post, December 7, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/retired-marine-gen-john-f-kelly-picked-to-head-department-of-homeland-security/2016/12/07/165472f2-bbe6-11e6-94ac-3d324840106c_story.html.
13. Franco Ordoñez, “Trump Pick to Head Homeland Security Oversaw Guantánamo Prison,” McClatchy, December 7, 2016, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article119427068.html.