4. The Early 2000s: Reality TV Terror

0.      Wayne Barrett, “Peas in a Pod: The Long and Twisted Relationship Between Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani,” New York Daily News, September 4, 2016, https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-peas-pod-article-1.2776357.

0.      Brett Samuels, “Trump Ramps Up Rhetoric on Media, Calls Press ‘the Enemy of the People,’” The Hill, April 5, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437610-trump-calls-press-the-enemy-of-the-people.

0.      Marina Fang, “A History of Donald Trump’s Tasteless Comments About 9/11,” Huffington Post, September 11, 2017, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-911-anniversary_n_59b67625e4b0354e4413182b.

0.      Alexandra Jaffe, “Trump in 2007: ‘I’m Excited’ for Housing Market Crash,” NBC News, May 23, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/trump-2007-i-m-excited-housing-market-crash-n578761.

0.      Michal Kranz, “‘Why Did You Wait?’: Trump Reportedly Asked the CIA Why It Paused for Target to Walk Away from His Family Before Striking,” Business Insider, April 6, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cia-drone-strike-terrorist-families-2018-4.

0.      Yamiche Alcindor and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “Soldier’s Widow Says Trump Struggled to Remember Sgt. La David Johnson’s Name,” New York Times, October 23, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/23/us/politics/soldiers-widow-says-trump-struggled-to-remember-sgt-la-david-johnsons-name.html.

0.      Donald J. Trump(@RealDonaldTrump), “I predicted the 9/11 attack on America…,” Twitter, December 29, 2011, 11:49 A.M., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/152431014742986752.

0.      Rebecca Kaplan, “Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Predict the 9/11 Attacks?,” CBS News, November 26, 2015, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-check-did-donald-trump-predict-the-911-attacks/.

0.      Dave Shiflett, “Another Time, Another Trump,” Wall Street Journal, December 21, 2015, https://www.wsj.com/articles/another-time-another-trump-1450742675.

0.    Andrew Kaczynski, “Trump Co-Author: I Won’t Vote for ‘No Class’ Trump,” BuzzFeed News, December 30, 2015, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/andrewkaczynski/trump-co-author-i-wont-vote-for-no-class-trump#.crA2gQ1o2.

0.    Fang, “History of Donald Trump’s Tasteless Comments.”

0.    Ron Suskind, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush,” New York Times, October 17, 2004, https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/faith-certainty-and-the-presidency-of-george-w-bush.html.

0.    Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics,” in Crises of the Republic (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972).

0.    Mike McIntire, “Donald Trump Settled a Real Estate Lawsuit, and a Criminal Case Was Closed,” New York Times, April 6, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/us/politics/donald-trump-soho-settlement.html.

0.    Kavitha George, “Ivanka Trump’s Role on ‘The Apprentice’ Was Bigger Than You Might Remember,” Bustle, February 23, 2019, https://www.bustle.com/p/ivanka-trumps-role-on-the-apprentice-was-bigger-than-you-might-remember-13077839.

0.    Michael Wilner, “Will Cohen Probe Shed Light on Port Washington Role in Russia Probe?” Jerusalem Post, December 19, 2018, https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Will-Cohen-cooperation-deepen-Chabad-Port-Washington-role-in-Russia-probe-574849.

0.    Christian Bautista and Will Parker, “Tamir Sapir Failed to Report $194M from Partial Sale of 11 Madison: IRS,” Real Deal, September 12, 2018, https://therealdeal.com/2018/09/12/tamir-sapir-failed-to-report-194m-from-partial-sale-of-11-madison-irs/.

0.    Darren Dahl, “My Story: Sean Yazbeck of Wavsys,” Inc. magazine, September 2011, https://www.inc.com/magazine/201109/inc-500-sean-yazbeck-wavsys.html.

0.    Asawin Suebsaeng and Gideon Resnick, “Mark Burnett Clamps Down on ‘The Apprentice’ Staff over Donald Trump Leaks,” Daily Beast, November 2, 2011, https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-burnett-clamps-down-on-the-apprentice-staff-over-donald-trump-leaks.

0.    Jesse Eisinger and Justin Elliott, “Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud,” ProPublica, October 4, 2017, https://www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-donald-trump-jr-close-to-being-charged-felony-fraud.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Jim Zarolli, “Trump Denies Links To Russian-American Businessman,” NPR, March 1, 2019, https://www.npr.org/2017/03/01/517988044/trump-denies-links-to-russian-american-businessman.

0.    Greg Price, “Ivanka Trump sat in Vladimir Putin’s Chair and Spun Around, President’s Former Associate Says,” Newsweek, May 17, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-putin-chair-spun-kremlin-931754.

0.    Michael Weiss, Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, and James Miller, “Trump’s Russia Towers: He Just Can’t Get Them Up,” Daily Beast, June 11, 2016, https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-russia-towers-he-just-cant-get-them-up.

0.    Andrew Rice, “The Original Russian Connection,” New York, August 7, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/08/felix-sater-donald-trump-russia-investigation.html?gtm=top.

0.    Judicial Watch, “Who Is Felix Sater?,” March 1, 2017, https://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/who-is-felix-sater/.

0.    New America Foundation, “Part IV. What Is the Threat to the United States Today?,” in Terrorism in America After 9/11, https://www.newamerica.org/in-depth/terrorism-in-america/what-threat-united-states-today/.

0.    Anthony Cormier and Jason Leopold, “The Asset,” BuzzFeed News, March 12, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/felix-sater-trump-russia-undercover-us-spy.

0.    Matt Apuzzo and Maggie Haberman, “Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected,’” New York Times, August 28, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/us/politics/trump-tower-putin-felix-sater.html.

0.    Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross, “Memory Lapse? Trump Seeks Distance From ‘Advisor’ with Past Ties to Mafia,” ABC News, December 10, 2015, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/memory-lapse-trump-seeks-distance-advisor-past-ties/story?id=34600826.

0.    Wilner, “Will Cohen Probe Shed Light on Port Washington.”

0.    Joseph Tanfani and David S. Cloud, “Trump Business Associate Led Double Life As FBI Informant—and More, He Says,” Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2017, https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-sater-trump-20170223-story.html.

0.    Flora Drury, “Litvinenko’s Revenge from Beyond the Grave: Spy’s Voice Recording Reveals Links Between Putin and Terrorist-As ‘Proof’ Emerges That Russia DID Kill Him in ‘State Execution,’” Daily Mail, January 23, 2015, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2923856/Litvinenko-links-Putin-Semion-Mogilevich-terrorist-crime-boss.html.

0.    Andrew G. McCabe, “Every Day Is a New Low in Trump’s White House,” The Atlantic, February 14, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/andrew-mccabe-fbi-book-excerpt-the-threat/582748/.

0.    Salena Zito, “Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally,” The Atlantic, September 23, 2016, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/trump-makes-his-case-in-pittsburgh/501335/.

0.    Anita Kumar, “Buyers Tied to Russia, Former Soviet Republics Paid $109 Million Cash for Trump Properties,” McClatchy, June 19, 2018, https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article210477439.html.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier, “Russian Agents Sought Secret US Treasury Records On Clinton Backers During 2016 Campaign,” BuzzFeed News, December 20, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/anthonycormier/russian-agents-sought-us-treasury-records-on-clinton-backers.

0.    Ibid.

0.    Senator Mark Warner, press release, “Senate Vice Intel Chair Warner Presses Mnuchin on Deripaska Sanctions,” January 29, 2019, https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2019/1/senate-intel-vice-chair-warner-presses-mnuchin-on-deripaska-sanctions.

0.    Brennan Weiss, “Trump’s Oldest Son Said a Decade Ago That a Lot of the Family’s Assets Came from Russia,” Business Insider, February 21, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-jr-said-money-pouring-in-from-russia-2018-2.