Live Free Or Die

by Sean Hannity

  93. John Malcolm, “6 Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings,” Heritage Foundation, March 16, 2018.

  94. Tawnell D. Hobbs, “Most Guns Used in School Shootings Come from Home,” Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2018.

  95. “Fact Sheet: Gun Violence,” Heritage Foundation, March 12, 2018.

  96. John Malcolm, “6 Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings,” Heritage Foundation, March 16, 2018.

  97. Gary Kleck, “Did Australia’s Ban on Semiauto Firearms Really Reduce Violence? A Critique of the Chapman et al. (2016) Study,” SSRN, December 20, 2017.

  98. Tobias Hoonhout, “Biden Says Beto O’Rourke Will ‘Take Care of the Gun Problem with Me,’ ” National Review, March 3, 2020.

  99. Zachary B. Wolf, “Democrats Have Spent Years Denying They’ll Take People’s Guns. Not Anymore,” CNN, September 12, 2019.

  100. Becket Adams, “That Time Eric Swalwell Threatened to Go Nuclear on Gun Owners. Literally,” Washington Examiner, July 8, 2019.

  101. David Marcus, “Yes, Democrats Want to Take Your Guns; Beto O’Rourke Is Just Desperate Enough to Say So,” Federalist, September 16, 2019.

  102. Maggie Haberman and Alan Rappoport, “Trump Tries to Walk Back Entitlement Comments as Democrats Pounce,” New York Times, January 23, 2020.

  103. Kenneth Rapoza, “In Attack Ad, Paul Ryan Kills Grandma in Wheelchair,” August 12, 2012.

  104. Owen Mason, “Democrats: Your Identity Politics Obsession Will Reelect Trump,” Washington Examiner, August 2, 2019.

  105. Matt Ford, “Biden’s Diversity Promises Are Identity Politics at Their Best,” New Republic, March 16, 2020.

  106. Ibid.

  CHAPTER 4: SOCIALISM: A HISTORY OF FAILURE

  1. Karl-Eugen Wädekin, “Soviet Agriculture’s Dependence on the West,” Foreign Affairs, Spring 1982, and Barry K. Goodwin and Thomas J. Grennes, “Tsarist Russia and the World Wheat Market,” Explorations in Economic History 35, no. 4 (October 1998).

  2. Fabiola Zerpa, Lucia Kassai, and Ben Bartenstein, “Venezuela Weighs Privatizing Oil in Face of Economic Free Fall,” Bloomberg, January 27, 2020, https://reason.com/2020/01/29/socialist-venezuela-proposes-to-privatize-its-collapsing-oil-industry/, and https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/05/07/how-venezuela-ruined-its-oil-industry/#578371717399; CEIC, “Venezuela Crude Oil: Production,” https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/venezuela/crude-oil-production.

  3. Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992), 45–46.

  4. Michael Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 178–79.

  5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, A Communist Manifesto (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964), 70.

  6. Ibid., 70, 76.

  7. Ibid., 116.

  8. Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: A New Biography (New York and London: Free Press, 1994), 69–70.

  9. Richard Pipes, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), 161–63.

  10. Ibid., 369–70.

  11. “Gulag,” History.com, https://www.history.com/topics/russia/gulag.

  12. Dmitri Volkogonov, Autopsy of an Empire (New York: Free Press, 1998), 72.

  13. Ibid., 73–74.

  14. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 791–92.

  15. Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror–Famine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 306.

  16. “The Editorial Notebook; Trenchcoats, Then and Now,” New York Times, June 24, 1990.

  17. Pipes, The Russian Revolution, 689.

  18. David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 184–5.

  19. Ibid., 185.

  20. Seth Mydans, “From Russia with Hope: In America to Stay—A Special Report; Seeking Shelter in U.S. After the Soviet Storm,” New York Times, January 25, 1992.

  21. Andy Bellairs, “Defections: Hungary at the Melbourne Olympics 1956, Vice, March 14, 2016, https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ypy3k5/defections-hungary-at-the-melbourne-olympics-1956 and https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blood-in-the-water-at-the-1956-olympics-1616787/.

  22. Karen Reedstrom, “Victor Belenko,” Full Context 9, no. 2 (November 1996), https://web.archive.org/web/20010111004300/http://fullcontext.org/people/belenko.htm.

  23. Strobe Talbott, ed., Khrushchev Remembers (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1970).

  24. “The East German Uprising, 1953,” Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, https://history.state.gov/milestones/1953-1960/east-german-uprising.

  25. James Bovard, “The Daily Hell of Life in the Soviet Bloc,” Mises Institute, https://mises.org/wire/daily-hell-life-soviet-bloc.

  26. Stephane Cortois et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 656.

  27. Ibid.

  28. Nigel Jones, “It Is a Sad Reflection of Our Time That Che Guevara Is Seen as a Hero,” Guardian, January 2, 2009.

  29. Mark Goldblatt, “Revenge of Che,” National Review, December 19, 2008, https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/12/revenge-che-mark-goldblatt/.

  30. Ibid.

  31. Simon Hattenstone, “ ‘Dammit, This Guy Is Cool,’ ” Guardian, November 29, 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/nov/29/benicio-del-toro-che-guevara.

  32. Frank Dikköter, “Looking Back on the Great Leap Forward,” History Today 66, no. 8 (August 2016).

  33. Dr. Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao (New York: Random House, 1994), 271–72, 282–83.

  34. Cambodia Tribunal Monitor, https://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/.

  35. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-demographer-produces-best-estimate-yet-of-cambodias-death-toll-under-pol-pot.

  36. Kirstie Brewer, “How Two Men Survived a Prison Where 12,000 Were Killed,” BBC, June 11, 2015, https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33096971.

  37. Associated Press, “Venezuela’s Chavez call Bush “the devil,” NBCNews.com, September 20, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14923411/ns/world_news-americas/t/venezuelas-chavez-calls-bush-devil/#.Xp1Ba8hKiCg.

  38. Daniel Di Martino, “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela,” Economics21.org, https://economics21.org/how-socialism-destroyed-venezuela.

  39. Michael Albertus, “Chavez’s Real Legacy Is Disaster,” Foreign Policy, December 6, 2018, https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/12/06/chavezs-real-legacy-is-disaster/.

  40. Robert Rapier, “How Venezuela Ruined Its Oil Industry,” Forbes, May 7, 2017, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/05/07/how-venezuela-ruined-its-oil-industry/#578371717399.

  41. Ibid; CEIC, “Venezuela Crude Oil: Production,” https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/venezuela/crude-oil-production.

  42. Jose Nino, “Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela, and Everywhere Else,” Mises Wire, August 16, 2016; Di Martino, “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela.”

  43. Robert Valencia, “Venezuelans Are Losing a Lot of Weight Amid Money Crisis,” Newsweek, February 22, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/venezuelans-are-losing-lot-weight-amid-money-crisis-816886.

  44. Julie Turkewitz and Isayen Herrera, “Childbirth in Venezuela, where women’s deaths are a state secret,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 2020, https://www.chicagotribune.com/featured/sns-nyt-dangerous-childbirth-in-venezuela-20200412-5vh5fmc2wvgdtp3rdmjdjlbcmm-story.html.

  45. “Overview: Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis, Iom.com, https://www.iom.int/venezuela-refugee-and-migrant-crisis.

  46. Fabiola Zerpa, “Venezuelan Hyperinflation Explodes, Soaring Over 440,000 Percent,” Bloomberg, January 18, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-18/venezuelan-hyperinflation-explodes-soaring-over-440-000-percent.

  47. Patricia Laya, “Hyperinflation Left Me Broke in Caracas,” Bloomberg, August 10, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-10/venezuelan-hyperinflation-makes-a-fast-food-mea
l-a-nightmare?srnd=life-in-caracas-venezuela.

  48. Patricia Laya, “Where a Bottle of Whisky Costs 16 Years of Wages,” Bloomberg, July 16, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/in-venezuela-a-bottle-of-whisky-costs-16-years-of-wages.

  49. Andrew Rosati, “Venezuela’s Bribing Menu Brings Transparency to Corruption,” Bloomberg, November 27, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-27/venezuela-s-bribing-menu-brings-transparency-to-corruption.

  50. Andrew Rosati, “Life Without Water: Sweaty, Smelly, and Furious in Caracas,” Bloomberg, August 27, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-27/life-without-water-sweaty-smelly-and-furious-in-caracas?srnd=life-in-caracas-venezuela.

  51. Alex Vasquez, “Everyone I Know is Depressed and Medicated: Life in Caracas,” Bloomberg, January 10, 2020, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-10/crisis-in-venezuela-has-nearly-everyone-depressed-and-medicated.

  52. Katie Porzecanski, “Why I Pick Up Hitchhikers in One of the World’s Deadliest Cities,” Bloomberg, September 13, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-13/why-i-pick-up-hitchhikers-in-one-of-the-world-s-deadliest-cities.

  53. Andrew Rosati, Dating in Caracas Is Crazy, Infuriating, and a Little Scary,” Bloomberg, May 17, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-17/tear-gas-and-condom-shortages-what-dating-is-like-in-chaotic-caracas.

  54. Patricia Laya, “Gaunt, Filthy and Scared, Kids Roam the Streets of Caracas,” Bloomberg, December 10, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/gaunt-filthy-and-scared-kids-roam-streets-of-caracas-in-packs?srnd=life-in-caracas-venezuela.

  55. Kristian Niemietz, “ ’But that wasn’t REAL socialism!’ (Part 3: Venezuela),” iea.com, August 4, 2017, https://iea.org.uk/but-that-wasnt-real-socialism-part-3-venezuela/; “Noam Chomsky Meets with Chavez in Venezuela,” Venezuelanalysis.com, August 27, 2009, https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/4748.

  56. Gordon Dritschilo, “Sanders, CITGO strike deal for oil,” Rutland Herald, February 4, 2006, https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/sanders-citgo-strike-deal-for-oil/article_bd5da44a-e919-51f9-a8ad-501a367ca84c.html.

  57. Kevin G. Hall, “Clinton-allied group ties Sanders to Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez,” Charlotte Observer, September 15, 2015, https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article35368479.html.

  58. James Freeman, “Not Even Socialists Believe in Socialism Anymore,” Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/not-even-socialists-believe-in-socialism-anymore-11581458840.

  59. Kerry Jackson, “Denmark Tells Bernie Sanders It’s Had Enough Of His ‘Socialist’ Slurs,” Investor’s Business Daily, November 9, 2015, https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/denmark-tells-bernie-sanders-to-stop-calling-it-socialist/.

  60. Joseph Simonson, “Bernie Sanders praised communist Cuba and the Soviet Union in the 1980s,” Washington Examiner, June 6, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sanders-praised-communist-cuba-and-the-soviet-union-in-the-1980s.

  61. Zachary Evans, “Sanders Differentiates Socialism from ‘Authoritarian Communism’ When Confronted by Russian Immigrant,” National Review, March 10, 2020.

  62. Alexander Burns and Sydney Ember, “Mayor and ‘Foreign Minister’: How Bernie Sanders Brought the Cold War to Burlington,” New York Times, May 17, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/us/bernie-sanders-burlington-mayor.html.

  63. Michael Kranish, “Inside Bernie Sanders’s 1988 10-day ‘honeymoon’ in the Soviet Union,” Washington Post, May 3, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bernie-sanderss-1988-10-day-honeymoon-in-the-soviet-union/2019/05/02/db543e18-6a9c-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html.

  64. Brendan Cole, “Castro Trends after Bernie Sanders Praises Cuban Leader’s Literacy Program,” Newsweek, February 24, 2020, https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-fidel-castro-cuba-democrats-60-minutes-1488694.

  65. Joseph Simonson, “Bernie Sanders campaigned for Marxist party in Reagan era,” Washington Examiner, May 30, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/bernie-sanders-campaigned-for-marxist-party-in-reagan-era.

  66. Ian Schwartz, “Sanders Campaign Organizer: Free Education, Gulags Needed To ‘Re-Educate’ You To Not Be A ‘F*cking Nazi,” Real Clear Politics, January 14, 2020, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/01/14/sanders_campaign_organizer_free_education_gulags_needed_to_reeducate_you_not_to_be_a_fcking_nazi.html; Valerie Richardson, “ ‘Extreme Action:’ Project Veritas unearths more radical Bernie Sanders staffers,” Washington Times, January 28, 2020, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/28/project-veritas-unearths-more-radical-bernie-sande/.

  67. Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott, “Bernie Sanders in the 1970s urged nationalization of most major industries,” CNN, March 14, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/politics/kfile-bernie-nationalization/index.html.

  68. Bill Scher, “No, Coronavirus Isn’t Proof We Need Socialism,” Politico, March 24, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/24/coronavirus-socialism-sanders-144490.

  69. Margaret Thatcher, Speech to Conservative Central Council (“The Historic Choice”), March 20, 1976, https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102990.

  CHAPTER 5: DEEP STATE I: RUSSIAN COLLUSION—THE HOAX OF THE CENTURY

  1. Michael Isikoff, “U.S. Intel Officials Probe Ties between Trump Adviser and Kremlin,” Yahoo News, September 23, 2016.

  2. “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia,” BuzzFeed News, January 10, 2017.

  3. Greg Gordon and Peter Stone, “Sources: Mueller Has Evidence Cohen Was in Prague in 2016, Confirming Part of Dossier,” McClatchy, April 13, 2018.

  4. Franklin Foer, “Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?” Slate, October 31, 2016.

  5. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” December 9, 2019, ii.

  6. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III, Department of Justice, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” March 2019, vol. 1, 5.

  7. James Comey, “No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies—and dumb lies at that,” Washington Post, May 29, 2019.

  8. “Minority Views,” House Intelligence Committee Democrats, March 26, 2018, 19, https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20180411_-_final_-_hpsci_minority_views_on_majority_report.pdf.

  9. Isikoff, “U.S. Intel Officials Probe.”

  10. Howard Blum, “How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier,” Vanity Fair, March 30, 2017.

  11. David Corn, “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump,” Mother Jones, October 31, 2016.

  12. “Christopher Steele, Trump Dossier Author, Is a Real-Life James Bond,” NBC News, January 13, 2017.

  13. Meghan Keneally, “Comey Says He Believes the Source of the Steele ‘Dossier’ to Be ‘Credible,’ ” ABC News, April 15, 2018.

  14. Kenneth P. Vogel, “Clinton Campaign and Democratic Party Helped Pay for Russia, Trump Dossier,” New York Times, October 24, 2017.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Margot Cleveland, “9 Key Points from Newly Declassified Report Details on FISA Abuse,” Federalist, April 16, 2020.

  17. “Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy On The 2016 Election Scandal—The Real One,” Hugh Hewitt Show, February 12, 2018.

  18. “James Comey on Clinton Probe, Russia Investigation,” Fox News, April 26, 2018.

  19. House Intelligence Committee Republicans, “Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” January 18, 2018.

  20. Charles E. Grassley, Chairman, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and Lindsey O. Graham, Chairman, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, “Referral of Christopher Steele for Potential Violation of 18 U.S.C. 1001
,” January 4, 2018.

  21. House Intelligence Committee Democrats, “Correcting the Record—the Russia Investigation,” January 29, 2018.

  22. “Comey: Notion That FISA Process Was Abused Is ‘Nonsense,’ ” Real Clear Politics, December 7, 2018.

  23. “Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein: ‘The Department of Justice Is Not Going to Be Extorted,’ ” Real Clear Politics, May 1, 2018.

  24. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, vi.

  25. Ibid., viii, xi.

  26. Margot Cleveland, “Declassified Info: DOJ, FBI Knew Trump Surveillance Was Based on Russian Disinformation,” Federalist, April 13, 2020.

  27. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, 110.

  28. Ibid., 188.

  29. Margot Cleveland, “9 Key Points from Newly Declassified Report Details on FISA Abuse,” Federalist, April 16, 2020.

  30. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, xi.

  31. Ibid.

  32. Ibid., xvii.

  33. “James Comey on Clinton probe, Russia investigation,” Fox News, April 26, 2018.

  34. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, xi.

  35. John Solomon, “FBI’s Steele Story Falls Apart: False Intel and Media Contacts Were Flagged before FISA,” Hill, May 9, 2019.

  36. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, iii.

  37. Ibid., 67.

  38. “Inspector General Report on Origins of FBI’s Russia Inquiry,” C-SPAN, December 11, 2019.

  39. “Full Interview: AG Bill Barr Criticizes Inspector General Report on the Russia Investigation,” Real Clear Politics, December 11, 2019.

  40. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election,” June 2018, v.

  41. Rod J. Rosenstein, “Restoring Public Confidence in the FBI,” Real Clear Politics, May 9, 2017, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/docs/Rosenstein_Memo.pdf.

  42. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “Report of Investigation of Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda,” August 2019, 60.