Live Free Or Die

by Sean Hannity

  43. Jonathan Turley, “No Glory in James Comey Getting Away with His Abuse of FBI Power,” Hill, December 15, 2018.

  44. Greg Re, “FBI discussed interviewing Michael Flynn ‘to get him to lie’ and ‘get him fired,’ handwritten notes show,” Fox News, April 30, 2020.

  45. Byron York, “Memo: FBI recommended Michael Flynn not have a lawyer present during interview, did not warn of false statement consequences,” Washington Examiner, December 11, 2018.

  46. Chuck Ross, “FBI Planned To Close Michael Flynn Investigation, And Then Peter Strzok Intervened,” Daily Caller, April 30, 2020.

  47. House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence, “Report on Russian Active Measures,” March 22, 2018, 54.

  48. DOJ IG, Report into Comey’s Disclosure, 17–18.

  49. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “A Report of Investigation of Certain Allegations Relating to Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe,” February 2018, 2.

  50. Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt, “Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment,” New York Times, September 21, 2018.

  51. Adam Goldman, “Prosecutors Face Increased Pressure to Make Decision in McCabe Case,” New York Times, October 1, 2019.

  52. Daniel Chaitin, “Schumer Warns Trump: Intel Officials ‘Have Six Ways from Sunday at Getting Back at You,” Washington Examiner, January 3, 2017.

  53. Kimberley A. Strassel, “Brennan and the 2016 Spy Scandal,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2018.

  54. Ibid.

  55. Matt Zapotosky, “Trump Said Mueller’s Team Has ‘13 Hardened Democrats.’ Here Are the Facts,” Washington Post, March 18, 2018.

  56. Eleanor Mueller, “Adam Schiff Wants Mueller to Bring His Report ‘to Life,’ ” Politico, July 21, 2019.

  57. Naomi Lim, “Matt Gaetz Grills Mueller on Steele Dossier’s Role in Russian Disinformation Efforts,” Washington Examiner, July 24, 2019.

  58. “Rep. Schiff on MSNBC: Much More Than Circumstantial Evidence, Worthy of Investigation,” Rep. Adam Schiff YouTube channel, March 27, 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftxB-WV58_o.

  59. “Adam Schiff on Russia investigation (full interview), CNN’s State of the Union, December 10, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/12/10/adam-schiff-russia-investigation-entire-sotu.cnn.

  60. Ibid.

  61. DOJ IG, Review of FISA applications, 12.

  62. “Statement of U.S. Attorney John H. Durham,” United States Department of Justice, District of Connecticut, December 9, 2019, https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/statement-us-attorney-john-h-durham.

  CHAPTER 6: DEEP STATE II: IMPEACHMENT—THE FAILED ATTEMPT TO DECAPITATE THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY

  1. “House Judiciary Committee Unveils Investigation into Threats Against the Rule of Law,” House Committee on the Judiciary, March 4, 2019, https://judiciary.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1502.

  2. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Rep. Al Green Fears Trump ‘Will Get Reelected’ if He’s Not Impeached,” Fox News, May 7, 2019.

  3. Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Hunter Biden Says Role with Ukraine Firm Was ‘Poor Judgment’ but Not ‘Improper,’ ” Washington Post, October 15, 2019.

  4. Polina Ivanova, Maria Tsvetkova, Ilya Zhegulev, and Luke Baker, “What Hunter Biden Did on the Board of Ukrainian Energy Company Burisma,” Reuters, October 18, 2019.

  5. Davey Alba, “Debunking 4 Viral Rumors About the Bidens and Ukraine,” New York Times, October 29, 2019.

  6. Alana Goodman, “John Kerry’s Son Cut Business Ties with Hunter Biden over Ukrainian Oil Deal,” Washington Examiner, August 27, 2019.

  7. Paul Sonne, Michael Kranish, and Matt Viser, “The Gas Tycoon and the Vice President’s Son: The Story of Hunter Biden’s Foray into Ukraine,” Washington Post, September 28, 2019.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid.

  10. Gregg Re, “State Dept. Official Flagged Hunter Biden’s ‘Conflict of Interest’ in Ukraine, Testimony Shows,” Fox News, November 7, 2019.

  11. Adam Entous, “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?” New Yorker, July 1, 2019.

  12. Ibid.

  13. James Risen, “Joe Biden, His Son, and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch,” New York Times, December 8, 2015.

  14. “Foreign Affairs Issue Launch with Former Vice President Joe Biden,” Council on Foreign Relations, January 23, 2018, https://www.cfr.org/event/foreign-affairs-issue-launch-former-vice-president-joe-biden.

  15. Peter Schweizer, “What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal—and That’s the Problem,” New York Times, October 9, 2019.

  16. “1-on-1 with Hunter Biden,” ABCNews.com, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/hunter-biden-66298958.

  17. Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern, “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire,” Politico, January 11, 2017.

  18. John Solomon, “Let’s Get Real: Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in US Elections,” Hill, September 23, 2019.

  19. Telephone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine, July 25, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf.

  20. “Trump on Ukraine: I Have an ‘Obligation to Investigate Corruption,’ ” Real Clear Politics, October 21, 2019.

  21. White House Whistleblower Complaint, August 12, 2019, https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf.

  22. Sean Davis, “Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge,” Federalist, September 27, 2019.

  23. Byron York, “Whistleblower Had ‘Professional’ Tie to 2020 Democratic Candidate,” Washington Examiner, October 8, 2019.

  24. Paul Sperry, “The Beltway’s ‘Whistleblower’ Furor Obsesses Over One Name,” Real Clear Investigations, October 30, 2019.

  25. Julian E. Barnes, Michael S. Schmidt, and Matthew Rosenberg, “Schiff Got Early Account of Accusations as Whistle-Blower’s Concerns Grew,” New York Times, October 2, 2019.

  26. Bill McCarthy, “Adam Schiff’s False Claim That ‘We Have Not Spoken Directly with the Whistleblower,” PolitiFact, October 4, 2019.

  27. Devlin Barrett, Matt Zapotosky, Carol D. Leonnig, and Shane Harris, “Trump Offered Ukrainian President Justice Dept. Help in an Investigation of Biden, Memo Shows,” Washington Post, September 25, 2019.

  28. Michael D. Shear and Maggie Haberman, “ ‘Do Us a Favor’: Call Shows Trump’s Interest in Using U.S. Power for His Gain,” New York Times, September 25, 2019.

  29. Tristan Justice, “Adam Schiff Makes Up His Own Transcript of Call Between Trump and Ukraine President,” Federalist, September 26, 2019.

  30. “Telephone Conversation with President-elect Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine,” April 21, 2019, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6550349/First-Trump-Ukraine-Call.pdf.

  31. Paul M. Krawzak, “OMB: Ukraine Aid Delay Was Consistent with Law, Past Practice,” Roll Call, December 11, 2019.

  32. “Ambassador Sondland Says President Never Told Him of Military Aid Preconditions,” C-SPAN, November 20, 2019, https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4831945/ambassador-sondland-president-told-military-aid-preconditions.

  33. Tim Hains, “Sondland Confirms POTUS Told Him: ‘I Want No Quid-Pro-Quo,” Real Clear Politics, November 20, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/11/20/sondland_confirms_potus_told_him_no_quid-pro-quo.html.

  34. Tim Hains, “Ukrainian President Zelensky: ‘Nobody Pushed Me’ To Investigate Biden,” Real Clear Politics, September 25, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/09/25/ukrainian_president_to_trump_at_un_nobody_pushed_me.html.

  35. Mark Moore, “Ukraine’s Zelensky Again Denies Quid Pro Quo during Trump Phone Call,” New York Post, December 2, 2019.

  36. “Ukraine Minister Denies Trump Put Pressure on Zelensky during Call: Report,” Reuters, September 21, 2019.

  37. Washington Post Staff, “Transcript: Kent and Taylor public testimony in front of House Intelligence C
ommittee, Washington Post, November 14, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/14/transcript-kent-taylor-public-testimony-front-house-intelligence-committee/.

  38. Oliver Carroll, “Ukraine President Zelensky Says ‘No Blackmail’ in Trump Call,” Independent, October 10, 2019.

  39. Christopher Miller, “Ukraine Was Still Checking Its Bank Account for US Aid for a Month After the Trump Call,” BuzzFeed News, October 2, 2019.

  40. Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’ ” Washington Post Magazine, March 11, 2019.

  41. Tim Hains, “Turley to House Dems: If You Make Going To The Courts An Abuse Of Power, It Is ‘Your Abuse Of Power,’ ” Real Clear Politics, December 4, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/04/turley_to_congress_if_you_make_going_to_the_courts_an_abuse_of_power_it_is_your_abuse_of_power.html.

  42. “Schumer Accuses McConnell Of Plotting ‘Most Unfair’ Senate Impeachment Trial,” NBCNews YouTube channel, December 19, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvYREYD7YM.

  43. Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt, “Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says,” New York Times, January 26, 2020.

  44. “Flashback: John Bolton Described the President’s conversations with Zelensky as ‘warm and cordial,’ ” Trending Politics YouTube channel, January 29, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHgkHaLa-x8.

  45. Tim Hains, “Audio; Russian Comedians Prank Called Rep. Adam Schiff, Promised Him Naked Photos Of Trump,” Real Clear Politics, February 6, 2018,

  46. Alana Goodman, “Adam Schiff sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump,” Daily Mail, February 6, 2018.

  47. John Solomon, “Let’s Get Real: Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in US Elections,” Hill, September 23, 2019.

  48. Stu Cvrk, “Impeachment Trial: Compare and Contrast Two Wildly Different Steele Dossier Explanations,” RedState, January 31, 2020.

  49. Trial memorandum of President Donald J. Trump, January 20, 2020, 24, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Trial-Memorandum-of-President-Donald-J.-Trump.pdf.

  50. “Transcript: Sen. Cruz praises Alan Dershowitz’s ‘powerful and compelling’ constitutional argument,” Hannity, January 28, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/transcript/sen-cruz-praises-alan-dershowitzs-powerful-and-compelling-constitutional-argument.

  51. Trial memorandum of Donald J. Trump, 44.

  52. Jonathan Easley, “Trump Campaign, RNC Raise Staggering $125 Million in Third Quarter,” Hill, October 1, 2019.

  53. Max Greenwood, “Trump Campaign, RNC Raise $154M in Fourth Quarter of 2019,” Hill, January 3, 2020.

  54. Emily Jacobs, “Trump Approval Rating Hits a High Post-Impeachment,” New York Post, February 19, 2020.

  CHAPTER 7: ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: THE HATE-TRUMP MEDIA MOB

  1. Dori Monson Show, “Howard Kurtz Says Media Mate for Trump is Unprecedented,” My Northwest, July 12, 2018.

  2. Robert J. Samuelson, “Why Trump Loves to Hate the Media,” Washington Post, February 22, 2017.

  3. Stephen Collinson, “Donald Trump Refuses to Say Whether He’ll Accept Election Results,” CNN, October 20, 2016.

  4. David Zurawik, “Trump’s War on Press No Match for Obama’s,” Baltimore Sun, March 4, 2017.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Art Swift, “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low,” Gallup, September 14, 2016.

  7. “Why Trump Supporters Hate the Media,” Fair Observer, July 1, 2017.

  8. “Fourth Estate,” Journalism Encyclopedia, Open School of Journalism, https://www.openschoolofjournalism.com/resources/encyclopedia/fourth-estate.

  9. Bruce Thornton, “A Brief History of Media Bias,” Hoover Institution, June 12, 2013.

  10. Mike Ciandella, “57 Times More Coverage of Trump’s Temporary Ban Than Obama Ending Cuban Refugee Program,” NewsBusters, January 30, 2017.

  11. Matthew Archbold, “8 Most Hilarious and Unsettling Obama-as-Deity Metaphors,” National Catholic Register, May 31, 2013.

  12. Paul Bedard, “Newsweek: Obama Is the ‘The Second Coming,’ ” Washington Examiner, January 19, 2013.

  13. Cheryl K. Chumley, “Barbara Walters Admits ‘We’ Thought Obama was ‘the Next Messiah,’ ” Washington Times, December 18, 2013.

  14. Mark Moford, “Is Obama an Enlightened Being? Spiritual Wise Ones Say: This Sure Ain’t No Ordinary Politician. You Buying It?” SFGate, June 6, 2008.

  15. Danny Shea, “Chris Matthews: ‘I Felt This Thrill Going Up My Leg,’ as Obama Spoke,” HuffPost, December 6, 2017.

  16. For the fullest account of the attack, see the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s “Final Report of the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi,” December 7, 2016.

  17. Bruce Thornton, “A Brief History of Media Bias,” Hoover Institution, June 12, 2013.

  18. David Samuels, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru,” New York Times Magazine, May 5, 2016.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Ibid.

  22. Ibid.

  23. Joe Concha, “Where’s the Outrage Over Obama’s Fake News Peddling?” Hill, December 6, 2016.

  24. Gideon Resnick, “Trump Won’t Denounce KKK Support,” Daily Beast, February 26, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/02/28/trump-won-t-denounce-kkk-support.

  25. Rich Noyes, “Condemning Republicans, Cheering Democrats: The Media’s Biased 2016 Convention Coverage,” NewsBusters, July 29, 2016.

  26. Jim Rutenberg, “Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism,” New York Times, August 7, 2016.

  27. Stuart Rothenberg “Trump’s Path to an Electoral College Victory Isn’t Narrow. It’s Nonexistent,” Washington Post, October 18, 2016.

  28. Ibid.

  29. Geoffrey Dickens, “Rigged? Trump Doesn’t Have a Single Major Newspaper Endorsement,” NewsBusters, October 18, 2016.

  30. Rich Noyes, “MRC Study: Documenting TV’s Twelve Weeks of Trump Bashing,” NewsBusters, October 25, 2016.

  31. Jack Shafer, “How Trump Took Over the Media by Fighting It,” Politico Magazine, November 5, 2016.

  32. Kalev Leetaru, “Measuring the Media’s Obsession with Trump,” Real Clear Politics, December 6, 2018.

  33. Mike Ciandella, “CNN Spends 78 Percent of Prime Time GOP Campaign Coverage on Trump,” NewsBusters, September 17, 2015.

  34. John Sides, “Why is Trump Surging? Blame the Media,” Washington Post, July 20, 2015.

  35. Nate Cohn, “The Trump Campaign’s Turning Point,” New York Times, July 18, 2015.

  36. Paul Farhi, “The Washington Post’s New Slogan Turns Out to be an Old Saying,” Washington Post, February 24, 2017.

  37. Joe Concha, “ ‘The Washington Post: ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ ” Hill, February 22, 2017

  38. Editorial, “Do the Media Hate Trump? Yes, and from the Very Start of His Presidency, New Survey Shows,” Investor’s Business Daily, October 3, 2017.

  39. AllahPundit, “Pew Media Coverage of Trump Through First 60 Days Vastly More Negative Than Last Three Presidents,” Hot Air, October 2, 2017.

  40. Elizabeth Harrington, “The ‘Hate Trump’ Agenda by the Democrats Has Gone Too Far,” Hill, August 6, 2019.

  41. “Covington Catholic High School Students Smeared by Mainstream Media Lies—Don’t Expect an Apology,” Fox News, January 21, 2019.

  42. Oliver Darcy, “CNN Settles Lawsuit with Nick Sandmann Stemming from Viral Video,” CNN, January 7, 2020. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/media/cnn-settles-lawsuit-viral-video/index.html).

  43. Anonymous, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” New York Times, September 8, 2018.

  44. John Gans, “Col. Vindman and the Trumpification of the National Security Council,” New York Times, February 7, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/202
0/02/07/opinion/alexander-vindman-nsc-trump.html.

  45. “Gergen on firings: There’s a classy way and the Trump way,” Cuomo Prime Time, CNN.com, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/02/08/vindman-sondland-trump-firings-gergen-cpt-sot-vpx.cnn.

  46. Elie Honig, “Trump engaged in witness retaliation. That’s a crime,” CNN.com, February 12, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/12/opinions/trump-vindman-criminal-witness-retaliation-cross-exam-honig/index.html

  47. https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1188510478634536962?s=20.

  48. Dominic Green, “The Democratic Media Hate Trump More Than They Love Iran—or America,” Spectator USA, January 7, 2020.

  49. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Ted Cruz Bashes MSNBC’s Joy Reid for Her “Trump’s Benghazi’ Claim: ‘What’s Wrong with You?’ ” Fox News, January 2, 2020.

  50. Amanda Prestigiacomo, “MSNBC’s Joy Reid Celebrates: ‘Trump’s Benghazi Unfolds In Iraq,’ ” Daily Wire, Janaury 1, 2020.

  51. Sharyl Attkisson, “Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List,” updated May 3, 2020.

  52. Ibid.

  53. Ibid.

  54. Ezra Klein, “The Media vs. Donald Trump: Why the Press Feels So Free to Criticize the Republican Nominee,” Vox, August 16, 2016.

  55. Margaret Sullivan, “We Have Entered the Trump Unbound Era—and Journalists Need to Step It Up,” Washington Post, February 23, 2020.

  56. Benjamin Hart, “Jeffrey Lord Isn’t on CNN Anymore, but He Still Loves Trump,” New York Intelligencer, July 21, 2019.

  57. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Jeffery Lord, Trump Defender on CNN, Is Fired for Using Nazi Slogan,” New York Times, August 10, 2017.

  58. “High School History Lesson Compares Trump with Nazis, Communists,” Associated Press, February 23, 2020.

  59. Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes, “HYPOCRISY: 7X More Coverage for Sessions Debacle than Holder Contempt,” NewsBusters, March 3, 2017.

  60. Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “TV News vs. President Trump: The First 30 Days,” NewsBusters, March 2, 2017.

  61. Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “Honeymoon from Hell: The Liberal Media vs. President Trump,” NewsBusters, April 19, 2017.