7. 2016–2019: “A Threat More Extensive Than Is Widely Known”

0.      “Trump: ‘I Have Nothing to Do With Russia, Folks,’” NBC News, October 24, 2016, https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-i-have-nothing-to-do-with-russia-folks-792709187907.

0.      Gwynn Guilford and Hanna Kozlowska, “Trump’s GOP Platform Voiced Strong Support for Ukraine–Until It Didn’t,” Quartz, July 19, 2016, https://qz.com/736394/trumps-gop-platform-voiced-strong-support-for-ukraine-until-it-didnt/.

0.      David E. Sanger, “Harry Reid Cites Evidence of Russian Tampering in U.S. Vote, and Seeks F.B.I. Inquiry,” New York Times, August 29, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/politics/harry-reid-russia-tampering-election-fbi.html.

0.      Amber Phillips, “The emerging timeline of Obama and Russia that is giving Democrats heartburn,” Washington Post, June 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/06/23/even-democrats-wanted-obama-to-speak-out-much-sooner-about-russia/?utm_term=.e849e0d519d1.

0.      Abigail Tracy, “Harry Reid Accuses the FBI of Withholding ‘Explosive’ Information About Trump,” Vanity Fair, October 31, 2016, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/10/harry-reid-james-comey-letter.

0.      Caroline Kenny, “Harry Reid: Comey may have violated the Hatch Act,” CNN.com, October 31, 2016, https://www.cnn.com/2016/10/30/politics/harry-reid-letter-hatch-act/index.html.

0.      David Corn, “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump,” Mother Jones, October 31, 2016, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump/.

0.      Ibid.

0.      Jeremy Stahl, “Glenn Simpson Testified that the FBI Had a Source Inside the Trump Campaign Corroborating Collusion Claims,” Slate, January 9, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/glenn-simpson-testified-that-the-fbi-had-a-source-inside-the-trump-campaign-corroborating-collusion-claims.html.

0.    Dexter Filkins, “Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?” New Yorker, October 15, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/was-there-a-connection-between-a-russian-bank-and-the-trump-campaign.

0.    Liz Spayd, “Trump, Russia, and the News Story That Wasn’t,” New York Times, January 20, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/public-editor/trump-russia-fbi-liz-spayd-public-editor.html.

0.    Erik Wemple, “NYT’s Dean Baquet rips ‘fairly ridiculous conclusion’ in public editor’s column on Russia coverage,” Washington Post, January 21, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/01/21/nyts-dean-baquet-rips-fairly-ridiculous-conclusion-in-public-editors-column-on-russia-coverage/.

0.    Hadas Gold and Joe Pompeo, “New York Times Eliminates Its Public Editor,” Politico, May 31, 2017, https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/new-york-times-public-editor-239000.

0.    Margaret Hartmann, “Final ‘October Surprises’ Reveal FBI Is Probing Trump’s Alleged Russia Ties,” New York, November 1, 2016, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/11/final-october-surprises-fbi-probing-trumps-russia-ties.html.

0.    Katelyn Polantz, “Paul Manafort faces 305 years,” CNN.com, March 13, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/13/politics/paul-manafort-faces-305-years/index.html.

0.    Dan Mangan and Kevin Breuninger, “Judge in Paul Manafort Trial Says He Has Been Threatened and Is Now Under US Marshal Protection,” CNBC, August 17, 2018, https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/17/judge-in-paul-manafort-trial-said-hes-been-threatened.html.

0.    Sabrina Siddiqui, “Paul Manafort Trial: Judge Won’t Release Jurors’ Names Over Safety Concern,” The Guardian, August 17, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/17/trump-manafort-pardon-trial-jury-latest-news.

0.    Zoe Tillman, “Paul Manafort’s Judge Won’t Face Disciplinary Action For How He Treated Mueller’s Office,” BuzzFeed News, April 1, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/paul-manafort-judge-no-disciplinary-action-mueller.

0.    Gaslit Nation (blog), Interview with Alexandra Chalupa, Transcript, June 22, 2019, https://www.gaslitnationpod.com/episodes-transcripts-20/2019/6/22/the-alexandra-chalupa-interview.

0.    Murray Weiss, “Exclusive: Paul Manafort Advised White House on How to Attack and Discredit Investigation of President Trump,” Vox, December 14, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/12/14/18140744/paul-manafort-trump-russia-mueller-investigation.

0.    OakTown Unfiltered (@hrtablaze), “Breaking: Twitter Friendly Version: A soft coup has been launched by the FBI…,” Twitter, November 1, 2016, 8:15 P.M., https://twitter.com/hrtablaze/status/793607310920720385.

0.    Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (New York: Random House, 1964), 65.

0.    Sean Gallagher, “DHS, FBI Say Election Systems in All 50 States Were Targeted in 2016,” Ars Technica, April 10, 2019, https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/dhs-fbi-say-election-systems-in-50-states-were-targeted-in-2016/.

0.    Jake Swearingen, “Did the Intercept Betray Its NSA Source?,” New York, June 6, 2017, http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/06/intercept-nsa-leaker-reality-winner.html.

0.    Dave Phillips, “Reality Winner, Former N.S.A. Translator, Gets More Than 5 Years in Leak of Russian Hacking Report,” New York Times, August 23, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/reality-winner-nsa-sentence.html.

0.    Gaslit Nation (blog), Interview with Billie Winner-Davis, June 14, 2019, https://gaslitnation.libsyn.com/reality-winner-is-in-prison-while-the-traitors-walk-free.

0.    Laura Strickler, Peter Alexander, and Rich Schapiro, “White House Whistleblower Says She Felt Humiliated After Retaliation from Boss,” NBC News, April 2, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-whistleblower-says-she-felt-humiliated-after-retaliation-boss-n990171.

0.    Paul Manafort (@PaulManafort), “Battleground states moving to Trump en masse…,” Twitter, November 4, 2016, 10:54 A.M., https://twitter.com/PaulManafort/status/794553482330210304.

0.    Cristina Maza, “Paul Manafort Briefed Russian Intelligence Member on ‘Battleground States’ that Nearly All Voted for Trump: Mueller Report,” Newsweek, April 18, 2019, https://www.newsweek.com/paul-manafort-russian-intelligence-kilimnik-collusion-trump-campaign-1400826.

0.    Charles Davis, “Jill Stein’s Recount Cash Pays for Her Russia Legal Defense,” Daily Beast, July 13, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/jill-steins-recount-cash-pays-for-her-russia-legal-defense.

0.    “Sarah Kendzior Responds to Breitbart,” https://youtube.com/watch?v=1ZsJlLfGkkQ.

0.    Carole Cadwalladr, “Cambridge Analytica a Year On: ‘A Lesson in Institutional Failure,’” The Guardian, March 17, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-year-on-lesson-in-institutional-failure-christopher-wylie.

0.    BBC News, “Salisbury Novichok Poisoning: Russian Nationals Named As Suspects,” September 5, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-45421445.

0.    Ashifa Kassam, “Refugees Crossing into Canada from US on Foot Despite Freezing Temperatures,” The Guardian, February 7, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/07/us-refugees-canada-border-trump-travel-ban.

0.    The Associated Press, “Trump Aide Dismisses Statue of Liberty ‘Huddled Masses’ Poem,” August 3, 2017, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-aide-dismisses-statue-of-liberty-huddled-masses-poem/.

0.    Howard Blum, “Exclusive: What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned,” Vanity Fair, November 22, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/trump-intel-slip.

0.    Lennart Meri Conference, “Dealing with the White House: The Limits of Transactional Foreign Policy,” Tallinn, Estonia, May 31, 2017, https://youtube.com/watch?v=7J7G-bF2zlI.

0.    Sarah Kendzior, “Speech at the March for Truth in St. Louis,” June 3, 2017, https://sarahkendzior.com/2017/06/03/my-speech-at-the-march-for-truth-in-st-louis/.

0.    “Donald Trump Rally Speech in Denver, Colorado July 29, 2016,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2096&v=5Mg7UPLEX4I.

0.    Thom Hartmann, “Bill Barr—Cover-Up Artist,” Salon, January 20, 2019, https://www.salon.com/2019/01/20/bill-barr-cover-up-artist_partner/.

0.    Timothy B. Lee, “How Manafort’s Inability to Convert a PDF File to Word Helped Prosecutors,” Ars Technica, February 23, 2018, https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/02/how-manaforts-inability-to-convert-a-word-doc-to-pdf-helped-prosecutors/.

0.    Natasha Bertrand, “New Court Filings Show Manafort Made Substantial Edits to Ukraine Op-Ed He Denied Ghost-Writing,” Business Insider, December 8, 2017, https://www.businessinsider.com/new-court-documents-show-paul-manafort-edited-ukraine-op-ed-2017-12.

0.    “Rick Gates Pleads Guilty, Asks Judge for Spring Break Trip to Boston,” CBS News, February 23, 2018, https://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/02/23/rick-gates-guilty-plea-boston-trip/.

0.    Josh Gerstein, “Rick Gates Nixes Family Trip to Boston After Threats,” Politico, March 1, 2018, https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/01/rick-gates-vacation-boston-threats-432624.

0.    Howard Blum, “How Scared Should Trump Be of Mueller?,” Vanity Fair, December 1, 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/12/how-scared-should-trump-be-of-mueller-ask-john-gotti-or-sammy-the-bull.

0.    Kevin Johnson and Bart Jansen, “Michael Flynn’s Sentencing Collapses Amid a Judge’s ‘Disgust’ Over Former National Security Adviser’s Conduct,” USA Today, December 18, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/12/18/michael-flynn-sentencing-collapses-judge-disgust-former-trump-aide/2352912002/; Alex Pappas, “Michael Flynn’s Sentencing Delayed by Judge After Dramatic Hearing for Ex-National Security Adviser,” Fox News, December 18, 2018, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-national-security-adviser-michael-flynn-sentenced.

0.    Adam Rawnsley, “Mueller Goes Easy on Michael Flynn for Spilling the Beans,” Daily Beast, December 5, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-recommends-lenient-sentence-for-michael-flynn.

0.    David Gilmour, “The Gateway Pundit Conference Was a Who’s Who of Conspiracy Theorists,” Daily Dot, September 18, 2018, https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/gateway-pundit-conference/.

0.    Rebecca Morin, “These Are All the Trump Associates Targeted in House Judiciary’s Wide-Ranging Probe,” Politico, March 4, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/04/jarry-nadler-trump-house-probe-1201126. Note to readers: My book is not a comprehensive work on every Trump associate implicated in this criminal probe. Such a work would be encyclopedic. The eighty-one people and organizations on this list should all be investigated; unfortunately, that list itself is also the tip of the iceberg.

0.    Andrew Prokop, “Brett Kavanaugh Wrote That Presidents Shouldn’t Be ‘Distracted’ by Criminal Investigations,” Vox, July 9, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/7/9/17551584/brett-kavanaugh-president-criminal-investigation.

0.    Katelyn Polantz and Caroline Kelly, “Mueller’s Office Disputes BuzzFeed Report That Trump Directed Michael Cohen to Lie to Congress,” CNN.com, January 19, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/18/politics/mueller-statement-buzzfeed/index.html.