NOTES

CHAPTER 1: “A REPUBLIC—IF YOU CAN KEEP IT”

  1. 1. Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States, From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror (New York: Sentinel, 2004), xxiv.
  2. 2. Kay Cole James, Terry Miller, et al., “2019 Index of Economic Freedom,” Heritage Foundation, 2019, https://www.heritage.org/index/book/chapter-4.
  3. 3. Robert Kagan, “Benevolent Empire,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, June 1, 1998.
  4. 4. History.com Editors, “The Marshall Plan,” History.com, December 16, 2009; Paul Johnson, A History of the American People (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 812.
  5. 5. Sam O’Brien, “Questioning the Marshall Plan in the Buildup to the Cold War,” University of New Hampshire Inquiry Journal, Spring 2014.
  6. 6. Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999).
  7. 7. Kagan, “Benevolent Empire.”
  8. 8. Ibid.
  9. 9. Paul K. MacDonald and Joseph M. Parent, “Trump Didn’t Shrink U.S. Military Commitments Abroad—He Expanded Them,” Foreign Affairs, December 3, 2019.
  10. 10. Leo Shane III and Joe Gould, “The Military Could See Big Changes if Democrats Win Control of Congress,” Military Times, October 23, 2018.
  11. 11. Maegan Vazquez, “NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Says America ‘Was Never That Great,’ ” CNN.com, August 16, 2018.
  12. 12. Ian Schwartz, “Eric Holder to Trump: ‘Exactly When Did You Think America Was Great?’ ” Real Clear Politics, March 27, 2019.
  13. 13. Ronald Reagan, “Farewell Address to the Nation,” Reagan Foundation, January 11, 1989.
  14. 14. Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About America? (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2002), 32–33.
  15. 15. Wilfred M. McClay, Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (New York, London: Encounter Books, 2019), 428.
  16. 16. Reagan, “Farewell Address to the Nation.”
  17. 17. Ibid.
  18. 18. McClay, Land of Hope, 26.
  19. 19. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Mayflower Compact,” Encyclopaedia Britannica (Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., November 14, 2019), https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mayflower-Compact.
  20. 20. Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Light and the Glory (Grand Rapids, MI: Fleming H. Revell, 1977), 120.
  21. 21. Paul Johnson, A History of the American People (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), 302.
  22. 22. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Mayflower Compact”; M. Stanton Evans, The Theme Is Freedom (Washington, DC: Regnery, 1994), 188, 193.
  23. 23. Alice M. Baldwin, The New England Clergy and the American Revolution (London: Forgotten Books, 2018).
  24. 24. Governor John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” 1630. From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Boston, 1838, 3rd series: 7:31-48), https://history.hanover.edu/texts/winthmod.html.
  25. 25. Evans, The Theme Is Freedom, 194.
  26. 26. Baldwin, The New England Clergy and the American Revolution.
  27. 27. Verna G. Hall, ed., The Christian History of the Constitution ([n.p.]: American Christian Constitution Press, 1962), 253.
  28. 28. Marshall and Manuel, The Light and the Glory, 251–52.
  29. 29. Johnson, A History of the American People, 116.
  30. 30. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, What if the Bible Had Never Been Written? (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1998), 90.
  31. 31. Benjamin Franklin, “Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer,” American Rhetoric Online Speech Bank, https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/benfranklin.htm.
  32. 32. Evans, The Theme Is Freedom, 231–32.
  33. 33. Thomas Jefferson, The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (New York, New York: Modern Library Classics, 2004), 656.
  34. 34. Michael Novak, On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding (San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2002), 38, 42.
  35. 35. McClay, Land of Hope, 41.
  36. 36. “The Originality of the United States Constitution,” Yale Law Journal, June 1896, 239.
  37. 37. W. David Stedman and La Vaughn G. Lewis, eds., “Our Ageless Constitution,” National Center for Constitutional Studies, https://nccs.net/blogs/our-ageless-constitution/our-ageless-constitution.
  38. 38. Alexander Hamilton, “Introduction,” Federalist No. 1, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/fed.asp.
  39. 39. McClay, Land of Hope, 76.
  40. 40. M. E. Bradford, A Worthy Company (Marlborough, NH: Plymouth Rock Foundation, 1982).
  41. 41. Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., “Preventing ‘The Tyranny of the Majority,’ ” Heritage Foundation, March 7, 2018.
  42. 42. Novak, On Two Wings, 42.
  43. 43. David Barton, Celebrate Liberty! Famous Patriotic Speeches & Sermons (Wallbuilder Press Kindle Edition, 2013), Kindle Locations 2044-2048.
  44. 44. Stedman and Lewis, eds., “Our Ageless Constitution.”
  45. 45. Ibid.
  46. 46. Abraham Lincoln, “Fragment on the Constitution and the Union (Jan. 1861), in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Roy P. Basler et al., eds., 1953, 168–69.
  47. 47. Abraham Lincoln, “The Gettysburg Address,” November 19, 1863, https://www.historynet.com/gettysburg-address-text.
  48. 48. McClay, Land of Hope, 181.
  49. 49. “We the People: The American Constitution After 200 Years, Celebrating the Nation’s Charter as Problem and Solution,” Los Angeles Times, September 13, 1987; “Rediscovering the Ideas of Liberty,” National Center for Constitutional Studies, https://nccs.net/pages/resources, 2020.
  50. 50. President Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Convention of Kiwanis International,” July 6, 1987, Reagan Foundation, https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/128817/kiwanis.pdf.
  51. 51. McClay, Land of Hope, 240.
  52. 52. Ibid., 240.
  53. 53. David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, and Thomas A. Bailey, The American Pageant: A History of the American People (Boston: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning Center), Kindle ed., location 14603 of 25194.
  54. 54. Ibid., location 14603–14620 of 25194.
  55. 55. Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror (New York: Sentinel, 2004), xxiv.
  56. 56. David Davenport, “Rugged Individualism: Dead Or Alive?” Defining Ideas, A Hoover Institute Journal, January 10, 2017; Kennedy, Cohen, and Bailey, The American Pageant, location 14603 of 25194.
  57. 57. John Burgess, The Foundations of Political Science (New York, 1933), 89, 90.
  58. 58. William A. Schambra and Thomas West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics,” Heritage Foundation, July 18, 2007.
  59. 59. C. Edward Merriam, A History of American Political Theories (New York: Macmillan, 1903), 311; William A. Schambra and Thomas West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics.”
  60. 60. Merriam, A History of American Political Theories, 307.
  61. 61. John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (New York: Prometheus Books, 2000), 34.
  62. 62. Ibid., 27; Schambra and West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics.”
  63. 63. Daniel J. Flynn, A Conservative History of the American Left (New York: Crown Forum, 2008), 131.
  64. 64. Schambra and West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics.”
  65. 65. Ronald J. Pestritto, “The Progressive Rejection of the Founding, Introductory Remarks,” The U.S. Constitution: A Reader (Hillsdale, MI: Hillsdale College Press, 2012), 617.
  66. 66. McClay, Land of Hope, 246–47.
  67. 67. Madeline Osburn, “The Progressive Movement Rejected the Founders’ Model for Lawmaking,” Federalist, February 1, 2019; McClay, Land of Hope, 247.
  68. 68. Flynn, A Conservative History of the American Left, 131.
  69. 69. McClay, Land of Hope, 247.
  70. 70. Madeline Osburn, “The Progressive Movement Rejected the Founders’ Model for Lawmaking.”
  71. 71. Johnson, A History of the American People, 636.
  72. 72. Flynn, A Conservative History of the American Left, 132.
  73. 73. Schambra and West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics.”
  74. 74. Johnson, A History of the American People, 633.
  75. 75. Schambra and West, “The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics.”
  76. 76. M. J. Heale, The Sixties in America: History, Politics and Protest (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001), 13–14.
  77. 77. D’Souza, What’s So Great About America?, 147.
  78. 78. Evans, The Theme Is Freedom, 42.
  79. 79. Flynn, A Conservative History of the American Left, 132.
  80. 80. David Davenport, “Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive?” Defining Ideas: A Hoover Institution Journal, January 10, 2017.
  81. 81. James Madison, “Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention,” Tuesday, September 17, 1787, Avalon Project, Yale Law School, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_917.asp.

CHAPTER 2: RISE OF THE RADICALS

  1. 1. Nathaniel Sheppart Jr., “Chicago Home of a Friend Was Refuge for Miss Dohrn,” New York Times, December 5, 1980, A22.
  2. 2. John Kifner, “A Radical ‘Declaration’ Warns of an Attack by Weathermen,” New York Times, May 25, 1970; “Women on FBI’s Most Wanted List,” CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/women-on-fbis-most-wanted-list/4/; FBI’s Former Ten Most Wanted Fugitive #314, https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/topten-history/hires_images/FBI-314-BernardineRaeDohrn.jpg/view.
  3. 3. Stanley Kurtz, “Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism on Schools,” Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2008; Bernie Quigley, “Obama and Bill Ayers: Together from the Beginning,” Hill, September 24, 2008.
  4. 4. Mort Kondracke, “Democrats’ Far-Left Lean Risks More Than the Presidency,” Real Clear Politics, July 18, 2019.
  5. 5. Hunter Schwarz, “Obama’s Latest ‘Evolution’ on Gay Marriage: He Lied About Opposing It, Axelrod Says,” Washington Post, February 10, 2015.
  6. 6. Ben Smith, “Obama Rejects Single Payer,” Politico, June 15, 2009, and “Barack Obama on Single Payer in 2003,” Physicians for a National Health Program, June 4, 2008, http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/june/barack_obama_on_sing.php.
  7. 7. Amy Chozick, “Obama: ‘If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun,’ ” Washington Wire, Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2008.
  8. 8. Barack Obama, “Obama Says ‘Argue with Neighbors, Get in Their Face,’ ” YouTube, September 18, 2008.
  9. 9. Mark Knoller, “Obama Casts Republicans as Slurpee Sippers,” CBS News Political Hotsheet, October 8, 2010.
  10. 10. Susan Jones, “ ‘Spread the Wealth Around’ Comment Comes Back to Haunt Obama,” CNS News, October 15, 2008.
  11. 11. Kent Hoover, “4 Reasons Why ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Still Haunts Obama,” Biz Journals, July 20, 2012.
  12. 12. Angie Drobnic Holan, “Lie of the Year: ‘If you Like Your Health Care Plan, You Can Keep It,’ ” PolitiFact, December 12, 2013.
  13. 13. Editorial Board, “The Democratic Divide,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019.
  14. 14. Lydia Saad, “U.S. Still Leans Conservative, but Liberals Keep Recent Gains,” Gallup, January 8, 2019.
  15. 15. Stephan Dinan, “ ‘It’s about COVID’: Nancy Pelosi Retreats on Stimulus ‘Wish List,’ ” Washington Times, March 24, 2020.
  16. 16. Nicole Darrah, “Pelosi Plays Down Influence of AOC Wing of Democrats, Says It’s ‘Like 5 People,’ ” Fox News, April 14, 2019.
  17. 17. Karine Jean-Pierre, “MoveOn: 2020 Democratic Nominee Must be Unapologetically Progressive,” USA Today, January 6, 2019.
  18. 18. Donica Phifer, “Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib Refers to Donald Trump in Speech, Tells Crowd ‘We’ Will ‘Impeach This Motherf---Er,’ ” Newsweek, January 4, 2019.
  19. 19. Scott Jennings, “Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib Are Honest Democrats. And Their Party Can’t Stand It,” USA Today, January 10, 2019.
  20. 20. Ibid.
  21. 21. Ibid.
  22. 22. Brett Samuels, “Joe Lieberman Says He Hopes Ocasio-Cortez Is Not ‘the Future’ of Democratic Party,” Hill, January 10, 2019.
  23. 23. Morgan Gstalter, “Ocasio-Cortez Responds to Joe Lieberman’s Criticisms: ‘New Party, Who Dis?’ ” Hill, January 11, 2019.
  24. 24. Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’ ” Washington Post Magazine, March 11, 2019.
  25. 25. Jonathan S. Tobin, “Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Omar Are Driving Democrats’ Agenda,” National Review, January 10, 2019.
  26. 26. David Siders, “You Don’t Just Get to Say That You’re Progressive’: The Left Moves to Defend Its Brand,” Politico, December 9, 2018.
  27. 27. Ibid.
  28. 28. Ibid.
  29. 29. “Bernie Sanders No Such Thing as a Pro-Life Dem, ‘Being Pro-Choice Is An Absolutely Essential Part,” GOP War Room YouTube channel, February 8, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-QgmvSx1Cs&feature=youtu.be.
  30. 30. Sean Illing, “ ‘We’re Losing Our Damn Minds’: James Carville Unloads on the Democratic Party,” Vox, February 7, 2020, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/2/7/21123518/trump-2020-election-democratic-party-james-carville.
  31. 31. Juana Summers, “Obama Says Democrats Don’t Always Need to Be ‘Politically Woke,’ ” NPR, October 31, 2019.
  32. 32. J. M. Rieger, “Trump Says Democrats Used to Be for New Border Barriers. He’s Right,” Washington Post, January 19, 2019.
  33. 33. Reid J. Epstein and Linda Qiu, “Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims That Democrats Are Radical Socialists,” New York Times, July 20, 2019.
  34. 34. Ibid.
  35. 35. James S. Robbins, “Progressive Democrats Let Their ‘Policy Freak Flags’ Fly, Want to Take Party to Far Left,” USA Today, January 15, 2019.
  36. 36. Thomas B. Edsall, “How Far Left Is Too Far Left for 2020 Democrats?” New York Times, April 10, 2019.
  37. 37. “Political Polarization in the American Public,” Pew Research Center, June 12, 2014.
  38. 38. Tim Haines, “Elizabeth Warren: Men Who Oppose Gay Marriage Should ‘Just Marry One, Woman,’ ‘If You Can Find One,’ ” Real Clear Politics, October 11, 2019.
  39. 39. Ibid.
  40. 40. Caleb Parke, “Beto Threatens Tax-Exempt Status of Churches if They Don’t Support Gay Marriage,” Fox News, October 11, 2019.
  41. 41. Tucker Higgins, “Joe Biden Says He Now Supports Federal Funding of Abortion, in Second Apparent Reversal,” NBC, June 6, 2019.
  42. 42. Emily Ekins, “Millennials Don’t Know What ‘Socialism’ Means,” Reason, July 16, 2019.
  43. 43. Kathleen Elkins, “Most Young Americans Prefer Socialism to Capitalism, New Report Finds,” CNBC, August 14, 2018, http://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/fewer-than-half-of-young-americans-are-positive-about-capitalism.html.
  44. 44. Mohamed Younis, “Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism,” Gallup, May 20, 2019.
  45. 45. Ibid.
  46. 46. Scott Rasmussen, “Is Socialism a Threat to America, to Democrats or Both?” Townhall, February 21, 2019, https://townhall.com/columnists/scottrasmussen/2019/02/21/is-socialism-a-threat-to-america-to-democrats-or-both-n2541951.
  47. 47. Peter Beinart, “Will the Left Go Too Far?” Atlantic, December 2018.
  48. 48. Ibid.
  49. 49. Ibid.
  50. 50. Ibid.
  51. 51. Ibid.
  52. 52. J. Edward Moreno, “Nadler Calls Trump a ‘Dictator’ on Senate Floor,” Hill, January 24, 2020.
  53. 53. Marc A. Thiessen, “Trump Isn’t the Biggest Threat to the Constitution. Democrats Are,” Chicago Tribune, March 22, 2019.
  54. 54. Ryan Saavedra, “Breaking: Democrats Introduce Bill to Eliminate Electoral College,” Daily Wire, January 3, 2019.
  55. 55. Li Zhou, “Senate Democrats Introduce a Constitutional Amendment to Abolish the Electoral College,” Vox, April 3, 2019.
  56. 56. Daniel Davis, “ ‘Save Our States’ Is Fighting to Keep the Electoral College Alive,” Daily Signal, November 13, 2019.
  57. 57. Ibid.
  58. 58. Ibid.
  59. 59. Rea Hederman and David Azerrad, Ph.D., “Report: Poverty and Inequality, Defending the Dream: Why Income Inequality Doesn’t Threaten Opportunity,” Heritage Foundation, September 13, 2012.
  60. 60. Ibid.
  61. 61. Council of Economic Advisers, “President Trump’s Policies Continue to Benefit All Americans, Especially the Disadvantaged,” Whitehouse.gov, September 10, 2019.
  62. 62. Ella Nilsen, “Joe Biden Has Been Talking About Income Inequality a Lot Lately—to His Rich Donors,” Vox, June 24, 2019.
  63. 63. Akhil Rajasekar, “Democrats Harp on Income Inequality Because They Don’t Know Now to Help the Poor,” Federalist, November 18, 2018.
  64. 64. “Rigging the Election—Video I: Clinton Campaign and DNC Incite Violence at Trump Rallies,” Project Veritas YouTube channel, October 17, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IuJGHuIkzY&feature=youtu.be.

CHAPTER 3: WELCOME TO FANTASYLAND: THE DEMOCRATS’ 2020 AGENDA

  1. 1. Karl W. Smith, “Trump’s Economy Is Working for Minorities,” Bloomberg, November 6, 2019.
  2. 2. Paul Krugman, “The Economic Fallout,” New York Times, November 9, 2016.
  3. 3. “Full Transcript: Democratic Presidential Debates, Night 1,” New York Times, June 26, 2019.
  4. 4. Editorial Board, “The Democratic Divide,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019.
  5. 5. Ibid.
  6. 6. Ibid.
  7. 7. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1229432034650722304?s=20.
  8. 8. Hannity Staff, “ ‘Wake Up Call’: CNN’s Van Jones Says Trump Helping African-American Communities in ‘Real Life,’ ” Hannity.com, February 5, 2020.
  9. 9. Editorial Board, “The Democratic Divide,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019.
  10. 10. Griffin Connolly, “The Detroit Trump Diss Track: Debating Democrats Blister the President,” Roll Call, August 1, 2019.
  11. 11. Ibid.
  12. 12. Ibid.
  13. 13. Lara Bazelon, “Kamala Harris Was Not a ‘Progressive Prosecutor,’ ” New York Times, January 17, 2019.
  14. 14. Connolly, “The Detroit Trump Diss Track.”
  15. 15. Ibid.
  16. 16. Ibid.
  17. 17. Jessica Chasmar, “Nancy Pelosi pre-ripped pages during SOTU speech, Trump campaign says,” Washington Times, February 6, 2020.
  18. 18. Mike DeBonis, “Pelosi Laces into Trump, Defends Tearing Up His State of the Union Speech,” Washington Post, February 6, 2020.
  19. 19. Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’ ” Washington Post, March 11, 2019.
  20. 20. DeBonis, “Pelosi Laces Into Trump, Defends Tearing Up His State of the Union Speech.”
  21. 21. John Verhovek and Molly Nagle, “Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden, They Announce ‘Working Groups’ on Policy Issues,” ABC News, April 13, 2020.
  22. 22. https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1250088269502709762?mod=article_inline.
  23. 23. Doug Mainwaring, “Joe Biden: ‘Transgender Equality Is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time’,” LifeSite News, January 27, 2020.
  24. 24. David Montgomery, “AOC’s Chief of Change,” Washington Post Magazine, July 10, 2019.
  25. 25. Diana Budds, “The Green New Deal Is Really About Designing An Entirely New World,” Curbed, September 19, 2019.
  26. 26. Benjamin J. Hulac and Elvina Nawaguna, “The ABCs of the Green New Deal,” Roll Call, March 25, 2019.
  27. 27. Bill McKibben, “The Necessity and Political Savvy of the Green New Deal,” Washington Post Magazine, November 12, 2019.
  28. 28. Editorial Board, “Vote on the Green New Deal,” Wall Street Journal, February 11, 2019; “Cosponsors: H.Res. 109—116th Congress (2019-2020),” Congress.gov.
  29. 29. Michael Grunwald, “The Trouble with the ‘Green New Deal,’ ” Politico Magazine, January 15, 2019.
  30. 30. Ibid.
  31. 31. Ibid.
  32. 32. Lisa Friedman, “What is the Green New Deal? A Climate Proposal, Explained,” New York Times, February 21, 2019.
  33. 33. Resolution, Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal, 116th Congress, 1st Session, February 5, 2019, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf.
  34. 34. This partial list was taken from a larger list compiled by Salvador Rizzo, “What’s Actually in the ‘Green New Deal’ from Democrats?” Washington Post, February 11, 2019. The list comes from the resolution itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729033/Green-New-Deal-FINAL.pdf#page=8.
  35. 35. Javier Blas, “The U.S. Just Became Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years,” Bloomberg, December 6, 2018.
  36. 36. Matt Egan, “America Is Now the Largest Oil Producer,” CNN Money, September 12, 2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/12/investing/us-oil-production-russia-saudi-arabia/index.html.
  37. 37. Resolution, Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal.
  38. 38. Joseph Curl, “The Laughable, Pathetic, Infantile Green New Deal Sets a New Low for Democrats,” Washington Times, February 8, 2019.
  39. 39. Rizzo, “What’s Actually in the ‘Green New Deal’ from Democrats?”
  40. 40. Timothy Cama, “Ocasio-Cortez Explains ‘Farting Cows’ Comment: ‘We’ve Got to Address Factory Warming,’ ” Hill, February 22, 2019.
  41. 41. Rich Lowry, “Millennial Socialism 101,” Salem News, January 13, 2019.
  42. 42. Resolution, Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal.
  43. 43. Eliza Relman, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Her Green New Deal Climate Plan Would Cost at Least $10 Trillion,” Business Insider, June 5, 2019.
  44. 44. Ari Natter and Bloomberg, “The Green New Deal Would Cost $93 Trillion, Ocasio-Cortez Critics Say,” Fortune, February 25, 2019.
  45. 45. Brittany De Lea, “How Much AOC’s Green New Deal Could Cost the Average American Household,” Fox Business, July 30, 2019; Paul Bedard, “Green New Deal to Cost Up to $100,000 per Home in First Year,” Washington Examiner, July 30, 2019.
  46. 46. Kevin Dayaratna, Nicolas Loris, and David Kreutzer, “Consequences of Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essentially Zero Environmental Benefits,” Heritage Foundation, April 13, 2016.
  47. 47. Julio Rosas, “Elizabeth Warren Says the Green New Deal Doesn’t Go Far Enough: We Need a Blue New Deal!” Townhall.com, February 14, 2020.
  48. 48. Dino Grandoni and Jeff Stein, “Joe Biden Embraces Green New Deal as He Releases Climate Plan,” Washington Post, June 4, 2019.
  49. 49. Ibid.
  50. 50. Zachary Evans, “Biden Suggests Dems Push for ‘Green New Deal’ Provisions in Next Coronavirus Stimulus Bill,” National Review, March 25, 2020.
  51. 51. Brian Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill,” Vox, August 7, 2018.
  52. 52. Megan Henney, “Warren vs. Sanders on Medicare-for-all: How do Their Plans Compare?” Fox Business, November 5, 2019.
  53. 53. Tami Luhby, Gregory Krieg, M. J. Lee, and Leyla Santiago, “Elizabeth Warren Releases Plan to Fund Medicare for All, Pledges No Middle Class Tax Hike,” CNN, November 7, 2019.
  54. 54. Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, “Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History,’ ” New York Times, March 23, 2019.
  55. 55. Ibid.
  56. 56. Ed Kilgore, “What Biden Can Do About Pressure to Embrace Medicare for All,” New York Intelligencer, April 13, 2020.
  57. 57. Ibid.
  58. 58. Elizabeth Warren, “My Plan for Universal Child Care,” Medium, February 19, 2019.
  59. 59. Christina Wilkie, “Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Fund Universal Child Care with ‘Millionaire Tax’ Hints at Growing Divide Among 2020 Democrats,” CNBC, February 20, 2019; Aparna Mathur and Abby McCloskey, “Universal Child Care Is the Wrong Approach,” AEI, February 22, 2019.
  60. 60. David Goldstein, “I Paid Off All My Student Loans. I Still Support Student Loan Forgiveness,” Vox, June 24, 2019; Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill.”
  61. 61. Tim Haines, “Voter Challenges Warren’s Student Loan Forgiveness Plan: ‘Those of Us Who Did the Right Thing Get Screwed?’ ” Real Clear Politics, January 23, 2020.
  62. 62. The Editorial Board, “Joe Biden Pivots… to the Left,” Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2020.
  63. 63. Riedl, “America Might Be Ready for Democratic Socialism. It’s Not Ready for the Bill.”
  64. 64. “Adding Up Senator Sanders’s Campaign Proposals So Far,” Committee for a Responsible Budget, May 9, 2016.
  65. 65. John O. McGinnis, “The Modern Constitution Empowers Redistribution, the Original One Not So Much,” Law Liberty, September 18, 2017.
  66. 66. Tyler Olson, “What’s in Democrats’ Coronavirus Bill? Arts Funding, Union Help and More,” FoxNews.com, March 23, 2020.
  67. 67. Phillip W. Magness, “The Rich Never Actually Paid 70 Percent,” American Institute for Economic Research, January 7, 2019.
  68. 68. Ibid.
  69. 69. Vanessa Williamson, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s 70 Percent Tax on the Rich Isn’t About Revenue, It’s About Decreasing Inequality,” NBC News, January 26, 2019.
  70. 70. Laura Davison, “A Guide to Democrats’ Plans to Tax the Rich More,” Fortune, December 4, 2019.
  71. 71. Brett Arends, “Elizabeth Warren Wouldn’t Be the First to Try a Wealth Tax—How Did the Others Do?” Market Watch, December 20, 2019.
  72. 72. Bernie Sanders, “The Inclusive Prosperity Act of 2019,” Sanders.Senate.gov.
  73. 73. Howard Gleckman, “Can the Sanders Financial Transactions Tax Raise Trillions and Cut Speculation,” Tax Policy Center, July 1, 2019.
  74. 74. Curtis Dubay, “The Economic Case Against the Death Tax,” Heritage Foundation, July 20, 2010.
  75. 75. Davison, “A Guide to Democrats’ Plans to Tax the Rich More.”
  76. 76. Ylan Mui, “Even Moderate Joe Biden Would Significantly Increase Taxes on the Wealthy if Elected,” CNBC, March 5, 2020.
  77. 77. Rea Hederman, Guinevere Nell, and William Beach, “Economic Effects of Increasing the Tax Rates on Capital Gains and Dividends,” Heritage Foundation, April 15, 2008.
  78. 78. Daniel J. Mitchell, “The Overwhelming Case Against Capital Gains Taxation,” Forbes, November 7, 2014.
  79. 79. Maggie Astor, “The Democratic Presidential Candidates Don’t Want to Simply Defend Abortion Rights. They Want to Go on Offense,” New York Times, November 25, 2019.
  80. 80. Caleb Parke and Gregg Re, “Dems Block ‘Born Alive’ Bill to Provide Medical Care to Infants Who Survive Failed Abortions,” Fox News, February 25, 2019.
  81. 81. Astor, “The Democratic Presidential Candidates Don’t Want to Simply Defend Abortion Rights. They Want to Go on Offense.”
  82. 82. Ibid.
  83. 83. Eric Zorn, “Pelosi Says Border Walls Are ‘Immoral.’ But That’s Not the Conversation We Need to Be Having Right Now,” Chicago Tribune, January 11, 2019.
  84. 84. Dara Lind, “ ‘Abolish Ice’ Shows How Far Left Democrats Have Moved on Immigration,” Vox, July 9, 2018.
  85. 85. Thomas Kaplan and Katie Glueck, “Joe Biden Calls for Immigration Overhaul, Acknowledging ‘Pain’ From Deportations,” New York Times, December 11, 2019.
  86. 86. Molly Hensley-Clancy and Nidhi Prakash, “ ‘Abolish Ice’ Was the Call of Last Summer. 2020 Democrats Have Moved On,” BuzzFeed News, May 15, 2019.
  87. 87. “Where 2020 Democrats Stand on Immigration,” Washington Post, February 1, 2020.
  88. 88. Alexandra Hutzler, “On Shaky Ground with Native American Community, Elizabeth Warren Supports Reparations for Indigenous People,” Newsweek, February 23, 2019.
  89. 89. Megan Henney, “Here’s Where 2020 Democrats Stand on Slavery Reparations,” Fox Business, June 20, 2019.
  90. 90. “Where Do 2020 Democrats Stand on Question of Reparations for Slavery? It’s Complicated,” Newsweek, June 19, 2019; “Where Democrats Stand: Should the Federal Government Pay Reparations to the Descendants of Slaves?” Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020/economic-inequality/reparations/.
  91. 91. David Krayden, “Biden Supports Slavery Reparations Study, Wants Immediate Action on ‘Institutional Racism,’ ” Daily Caller, February 29, 2020.
  92. 92. Michael Bloomberg, “Updated: Mass Public Shootings Keep Occurring in Gun-Free Zones: 94: of Attacks Since 1950,” CrimeResearch.org.
  93. 93. John Malcolm, “6 Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings,” Heritage Foundation, March 16, 2018.
  94. 94. Tawnell D. Hobbs, “Most Guns Used in School Shootings Come from Home,” Wall Street Journal, April 5, 2018.
  95. 95. “Fact Sheet: Gun Violence,” Heritage Foundation, March 12, 2018.
  96. 96. John Malcolm, “6 Reasons Gun Control Will Not Solve Mass Killings,” Heritage Foundation, March 16, 2018.
  97. 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. 98. Tobias Hoonhout, “Biden Says Beto O’Rourke Will ‘Take Care of the Gun Problem with Me,’ ” National Review, March 3, 2020.
  99. 99. Zachary B. Wolf, “Democrats Have Spent Years Denying They’ll Take People’s Guns. Not Anymore,” CNN, September 12, 2019.
  100. 100. Becket Adams, “That Time Eric Swalwell Threatened to Go Nuclear on Gun Owners. Literally,” Washington Examiner, July 8, 2019.
  101. 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. 102. Maggie Haberman and Alan Rappoport, “Trump Tries to Walk Back Entitlement Comments as Democrats Pounce,” New York Times, January 23, 2020.
  103. 103. Kenneth Rapoza, “In Attack Ad, Paul Ryan Kills Grandma in Wheelchair,” August 12, 2012.
  104. 104. Owen Mason, “Democrats: Your Identity Politics Obsession Will Reelect Trump,” Washington Examiner, August 2, 2019.
  105. 105. Matt Ford, “Biden’s Diversity Promises Are Identity Politics at Their Best,” New Republic, March 16, 2020.
  106. 106. Ibid.

CHAPTER 4: SOCIALISM: A HISTORY OF FAILURE

  1. 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. 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. 3. Vladimir Lenin, The State and Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1992), 45–46.
  4. 4. Michael Bakunin, Statism and Anarchy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 178–79.
  5. 5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, A Communist Manifesto (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1964), 70.
  6. 6. Ibid., 70, 76.
  7. 7. Ibid., 116.
  8. 8. Dmitri Volkogonov, Lenin: A New Biography (New York and London: Free Press, 1994), 69–70.
  9. 9. Richard Pipes, A Concise History of the Russian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1995), 161–63.
  10. 10. Ibid., 369–70.
  11. 11. “Gulag,” History.com, https://www.history.com/topics/russia/gulag.
  12. 12. Dmitri Volkogonov, Autopsy of an Empire (New York: Free Press, 1998), 72.
  13. 13. Ibid., 73–74.
  14. 14. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 791–92.
  15. 15. Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror–Famine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986), 306.
  16. 16. “The Editorial Notebook; Trenchcoats, Then and Now,” New York Times, June 24, 1990.
  17. 17. Pipes, The Russian Revolution, 689.
  18. 18. David Remnick, Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 184–5.
  19. 19. Ibid., 185.
  20. 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. 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. 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. 23. Strobe Talbott, ed., Khrushchev Remembers (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1970).
  24. 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. 25. James Bovard, “The Daily Hell of Life in the Soviet Bloc,” Mises Institute, https://mises.org/wire/daily-hell-life-soviet-bloc.
  26. 26. Stephane Cortois et al., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 656.
  27. 27. Ibid.
  28. 28. Nigel Jones, “It Is a Sad Reflection of Our Time That Che Guevara Is Seen as a Hero,” Guardian, January 2, 2009.
  29. 29. Mark Goldblatt, “Revenge of Che,” National Review, December 19, 2008, https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/12/revenge-che-mark-goldblatt/.
  30. 30. Ibid.
  31. 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. 32. Frank Dikköter, “Looking Back on the Great Leap Forward,” History Today 66, no. 8 (August 2016).
  33. 33. Dr. Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao (New York: Random House, 1994), 271–72, 282–83.
  34. 34. Cambodia Tribunal Monitor, https://www.cambodiatribunal.org/history/cambodian-history/khmer-rouge-history/.
  35. 35. https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-demographer-produces-best-estimate-yet-of-cambodias-death-toll-under-pol-pot.
  36. 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. 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. 38. Daniel Di Martino, “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela,” Economics21.org, https://economics21.org/how-socialism-destroyed-venezuela.
  39. 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. 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. 41. Ibid; CEIC, “Venezuela Crude Oil: Production,” https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/venezuela/crude-oil-production.
  42. 42. Jose Nino, “Price Controls Are Disastrous for Venezuela, and Everywhere Else,” Mises Wire, August 16, 2016; Di Martino, “How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela.”
  43. 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. 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. 45. “Overview: Venezuelan Refugee and Migrant Crisis, Iom.com, https://www.iom.int/venezuela-refugee-and-migrant-crisis.
  46. 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. 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-meal-a-nightmare?srnd=life-in-caracas-venezuela.
  48. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 61. Zachary Evans, “Sanders Differentiates Socialism from ‘Authoritarian Communism’ When Confronted by Russian Immigrant,” National Review, March 10, 2020.
  62. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 1. Michael Isikoff, “U.S. Intel Officials Probe Ties between Trump Adviser and Kremlin,” Yahoo News, September 23, 2016.
  2. 2. “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties to Russia,” BuzzFeed News, January 10, 2017.
  3. 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. 4. Franklin Foer, “Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?” Slate, October 31, 2016.
  5. 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. 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. 7. James Comey, “No ‘treason.’ No coup. Just lies—and dumb lies at that,” Washington Post, May 29, 2019.
  8. 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. 9. Isikoff, “U.S. Intel Officials Probe.”
  10. 10. Howard Blum, “How Ex-Spy Christopher Steele Compiled His Explosive Trump-Russia Dossier,” Vanity Fair, March 30, 2017.
  11. 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. 12. “Christopher Steele, Trump Dossier Author, Is a Real-Life James Bond,” NBC News, January 13, 2017.
  13. 13. Meghan Keneally, “Comey Says He Believes the Source of the Steele ‘Dossier’ to Be ‘Credible,’ ” ABC News, April 15, 2018.
  14. 14. Kenneth P. Vogel, “Clinton Campaign and Democratic Party Helped Pay for Russia, Trump Dossier,” New York Times, October 24, 2017.
  15. 15. Ibid.
  16. 16. Margot Cleveland, “9 Key Points from Newly Declassified Report Details on FISA Abuse,” Federalist, April 16, 2020.
  17. 17. “Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy On The 2016 Election Scandal—The Real One,” Hugh Hewitt Show, February 12, 2018.
  18. 18. “James Comey on Clinton Probe, Russia Investigation,” Fox News, April 26, 2018.
  19. 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. 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. 21. House Intelligence Committee Democrats, “Correcting the Record—the Russia Investigation,” January 29, 2018.
  22. 22. “Comey: Notion That FISA Process Was Abused Is ‘Nonsense,’ ” Real Clear Politics, December 7, 2018.
  23. 23. “Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein: ‘The Department of Justice Is Not Going to Be Extorted,’ ” Real Clear Politics, May 1, 2018.
  24. 24. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, vi.
  25. 25. Ibid., viii, xi.
  26. 26. Margot Cleveland, “Declassified Info: DOJ, FBI Knew Trump Surveillance Was Based on Russian Disinformation,” Federalist, April 13, 2020.
  27. 27. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, 110.
  28. 28. Ibid., 188.
  29. 29. Margot Cleveland, “9 Key Points from Newly Declassified Report Details on FISA Abuse,” Federalist, April 16, 2020.
  30. 30. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, xi.
  31. 31. Ibid.
  32. 32. Ibid., xvii.
  33. 33. “James Comey on Clinton probe, Russia investigation,” Fox News, April 26, 2018.
  34. 34. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, xi.
  35. 35. John Solomon, “FBI’s Steele Story Falls Apart: False Intel and Media Contacts Were Flagged before FISA,” Hill, May 9, 2019.
  36. 36. DOJ IG, Review of FISA Applications, iii.
  37. 37. Ibid., 67.
  38. 38. “Inspector General Report on Origins of FBI’s Russia Inquiry,” C-SPAN, December 11, 2019.
  39. 39. “Full Interview: AG Bill Barr Criticizes Inspector General Report on the Russia Investigation,” Real Clear Politics, December 11, 2019.
  40. 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. 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. 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.
  43. 43. Jonathan Turley, “No Glory in James Comey Getting Away with His Abuse of FBI Power,” Hill, December 15, 2018.
  44. 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. 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. 46. Chuck Ross, “FBI Planned To Close Michael Flynn Investigation, And Then Peter Strzok Intervened,” Daily Caller, April 30, 2020.
  47. 47. House Permanent Select Committee On Intelligence, “Report on Russian Active Measures,” March 22, 2018, 54.
  48. 48. DOJ IG, Report into Comey’s Disclosure, 17–18.
  49. 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. 50. Adam Goldman and Michael S. Schmidt, “Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump and Discussed 25th Amendment,” New York Times, September 21, 2018.
  51. 51. Adam Goldman, “Prosecutors Face Increased Pressure to Make Decision in McCabe Case,” New York Times, October 1, 2019.
  52. 52. Daniel Chaitin, “Schumer Warns Trump: Intel Officials ‘Have Six Ways from Sunday at Getting Back at You,” Washington Examiner, January 3, 2017.
  53. 53. Kimberley A. Strassel, “Brennan and the 2016 Spy Scandal,” Wall Street Journal, July 19, 2018.
  54. 54. Ibid.
  55. 55. Matt Zapotosky, “Trump Said Mueller’s Team Has ‘13 Hardened Democrats.’ Here Are the Facts,” Washington Post, March 18, 2018.
  56. 56. Eleanor Mueller, “Adam Schiff Wants Mueller to Bring His Report ‘to Life,’ ” Politico, July 21, 2019.
  57. 57. Naomi Lim, “Matt Gaetz Grills Mueller on Steele Dossier’s Role in Russian Disinformation Efforts,” Washington Examiner, July 24, 2019.
  58. 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. 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. 60. Ibid.
  61. 61. DOJ IG, Review of FISA applications, 12.
  62. 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. 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. 2. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “Rep. Al Green Fears Trump ‘Will Get Reelected’ if He’s Not Impeached,” Fox News, May 7, 2019.
  3. 3. Cleve R. Wootson Jr., “Hunter Biden Says Role with Ukraine Firm Was ‘Poor Judgment’ but Not ‘Improper,’ ” Washington Post, October 15, 2019.
  4. 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. 5. Davey Alba, “Debunking 4 Viral Rumors About the Bidens and Ukraine,” New York Times, October 29, 2019.
  6. 6. Alana Goodman, “John Kerry’s Son Cut Business Ties with Hunter Biden over Ukrainian Oil Deal,” Washington Examiner, August 27, 2019.
  7. 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. 8. Ibid.
  9. 9. Ibid.
  10. 10. Gregg Re, “State Dept. Official Flagged Hunter Biden’s ‘Conflict of Interest’ in Ukraine, Testimony Shows,” Fox News, November 7, 2019.
  11. 11. Adam Entous, “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?” New Yorker, July 1, 2019.
  12. 12. Ibid.
  13. 13. James Risen, “Joe Biden, His Son, and the Case Against a Ukrainian Oligarch,” New York Times, December 8, 2015.
  14. 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. 15. Peter Schweizer, “What Hunter Biden Did Was Legal—and That’s the Problem,” New York Times, October 9, 2019.
  16. 16. “1-on-1 with Hunter Biden,” ABCNews.com, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/hunter-biden-66298958.
  17. 17. Kenneth P. Vogel and David Stern, “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire,” Politico, January 11, 2017.
  18. 18. John Solomon, “Let’s Get Real: Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in US Elections,” Hill, September 23, 2019.
  19. 19. Telephone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine, July 25, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf.
  20. 20. “Trump on Ukraine: I Have an ‘Obligation to Investigate Corruption,’ ” Real Clear Politics, October 21, 2019.
  21. 21. White House Whistleblower Complaint, August 12, 2019, https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/20190812_-_whistleblower_complaint_unclass.pdf.
  22. 22. Sean Davis, “Intel Community Secretly Gutted Requirement of First-Hand Whistleblower Knowledge,” Federalist, September 27, 2019.
  23. 23. Byron York, “Whistleblower Had ‘Professional’ Tie to 2020 Democratic Candidate,” Washington Examiner, October 8, 2019.
  24. 24. Paul Sperry, “The Beltway’s ‘Whistleblower’ Furor Obsesses Over One Name,” Real Clear Investigations, October 30, 2019.
  25. 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. 26. Bill McCarthy, “Adam Schiff’s False Claim That ‘We Have Not Spoken Directly with the Whistleblower,” PolitiFact, October 4, 2019.
  27. 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. 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. 29. Tristan Justice, “Adam Schiff Makes Up His Own Transcript of Call Between Trump and Ukraine President,” Federalist, September 26, 2019.
  30. 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. 31. Paul M. Krawzak, “OMB: Ukraine Aid Delay Was Consistent with Law, Past Practice,” Roll Call, December 11, 2019.
  32. 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. 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. 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. 35. Mark Moore, “Ukraine’s Zelensky Again Denies Quid Pro Quo during Trump Phone Call,” New York Post, December 2, 2019.
  36. 36. “Ukraine Minister Denies Trump Put Pressure on Zelensky during Call: Report,” Reuters, September 21, 2019.
  37. 37. Washington Post Staff, “Transcript: Kent and Taylor public testimony in front of House Intelligence Committee, Washington Post, November 14, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/14/transcript-kent-taylor-public-testimony-front-house-intelligence-committee/.
  38. 38. Oliver Carroll, “Ukraine President Zelensky Says ‘No Blackmail’ in Trump Call,” Independent, October 10, 2019.
  39. 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. 40. Joe Heim, “Nancy Pelosi on Impeaching Trump: ‘He’s Just Not Worth It,’ ” Washington Post Magazine, March 11, 2019.
  41. 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. 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. 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. 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. 45. Tim Hains, “Audio; Russian Comedians Prank Called Rep. Adam Schiff, Promised Him Naked Photos Of Trump,” Real Clear Politics, February 6, 2018,
  46. 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. 47. John Solomon, “Let’s Get Real: Democrats Were First to Enlist Ukraine in US Elections,” Hill, September 23, 2019.
  48. 48. Stu Cvrk, “Impeachment Trial: Compare and Contrast Two Wildly Different Steele Dossier Explanations,” RedState, January 31, 2020.
  49. 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. 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. 51. Trial memorandum of Donald J. Trump, 44.
  52. 52. Jonathan Easley, “Trump Campaign, RNC Raise Staggering $125 Million in Third Quarter,” Hill, October 1, 2019.
  53. 53. Max Greenwood, “Trump Campaign, RNC Raise $154M in Fourth Quarter of 2019,” Hill, January 3, 2020.
  54. 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. 1. Dori Monson Show, “Howard Kurtz Says Media Mate for Trump is Unprecedented,” My Northwest, July 12, 2018.
  2. 2. Robert J. Samuelson, “Why Trump Loves to Hate the Media,” Washington Post, February 22, 2017.
  3. 3. Stephen Collinson, “Donald Trump Refuses to Say Whether He’ll Accept Election Results,” CNN, October 20, 2016.
  4. 4. David Zurawik, “Trump’s War on Press No Match for Obama’s,” Baltimore Sun, March 4, 2017.
  5. 5. Ibid.
  6. 6. Art Swift, “Americans’ Trust in Mass Media Sinks to New Low,” Gallup, September 14, 2016.
  7. 7. “Why Trump Supporters Hate the Media,” Fair Observer, July 1, 2017.
  8. 8. “Fourth Estate,” Journalism Encyclopedia, Open School of Journalism, https://www.openschoolofjournalism.com/resources/encyclopedia/fourth-estate.
  9. 9. Bruce Thornton, “A Brief History of Media Bias,” Hoover Institution, June 12, 2013.
  10. 10. Mike Ciandella, “57 Times More Coverage of Trump’s Temporary Ban Than Obama Ending Cuban Refugee Program,” NewsBusters, January 30, 2017.
  11. 11. Matthew Archbold, “8 Most Hilarious and Unsettling Obama-as-Deity Metaphors,” National Catholic Register, May 31, 2013.
  12. 12. Paul Bedard, “Newsweek: Obama Is the ‘The Second Coming,’ ” Washington Examiner, January 19, 2013.
  13. 13. Cheryl K. Chumley, “Barbara Walters Admits ‘We’ Thought Obama was ‘the Next Messiah,’ ” Washington Times, December 18, 2013.
  14. 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. 15. Danny Shea, “Chris Matthews: ‘I Felt This Thrill Going Up My Leg,’ as Obama Spoke,” HuffPost, December 6, 2017.
  16. 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. 17. Bruce Thornton, “A Brief History of Media Bias,” Hoover Institution, June 12, 2013.
  18. 18. David Samuels, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru,” New York Times Magazine, May 5, 2016.
  19. 19. Ibid.
  20. 20. Ibid.
  21. 21. Ibid.
  22. 22. Ibid.
  23. 23. Joe Concha, “Where’s the Outrage Over Obama’s Fake News Peddling?” Hill, December 6, 2016.
  24. 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. 25. Rich Noyes, “Condemning Republicans, Cheering Democrats: The Media’s Biased 2016 Convention Coverage,” NewsBusters, July 29, 2016.
  26. 26. Jim Rutenberg, “Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism,” New York Times, August 7, 2016.
  27. 27. Stuart Rothenberg “Trump’s Path to an Electoral College Victory Isn’t Narrow. It’s Nonexistent,” Washington Post, October 18, 2016.
  28. 28. Ibid.
  29. 29. Geoffrey Dickens, “Rigged? Trump Doesn’t Have a Single Major Newspaper Endorsement,” NewsBusters, October 18, 2016.
  30. 30. Rich Noyes, “MRC Study: Documenting TV’s Twelve Weeks of Trump Bashing,” NewsBusters, October 25, 2016.
  31. 31. Jack Shafer, “How Trump Took Over the Media by Fighting It,” Politico Magazine, November 5, 2016.
  32. 32. Kalev Leetaru, “Measuring the Media’s Obsession with Trump,” Real Clear Politics, December 6, 2018.
  33. 33. Mike Ciandella, “CNN Spends 78 Percent of Prime Time GOP Campaign Coverage on Trump,” NewsBusters, September 17, 2015.
  34. 34. John Sides, “Why is Trump Surging? Blame the Media,” Washington Post, July 20, 2015.
  35. 35. Nate Cohn, “The Trump Campaign’s Turning Point,” New York Times, July 18, 2015.
  36. 36. Paul Farhi, “The Washington Post’s New Slogan Turns Out to be an Old Saying,” Washington Post, February 24, 2017.
  37. 37. Joe Concha, “ ‘The Washington Post: ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness,’ ” Hill, February 22, 2017
  38. 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. 39. AllahPundit, “Pew Media Coverage of Trump Through First 60 Days Vastly More Negative Than Last Three Presidents,” Hot Air, October 2, 2017.
  40. 40. Elizabeth Harrington, “The ‘Hate Trump’ Agenda by the Democrats Has Gone Too Far,” Hill, August 6, 2019.
  41. 41. “Covington Catholic High School Students Smeared by Mainstream Media Lies—Don’t Expect an Apology,” Fox News, January 21, 2019.
  42. 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. 43. Anonymous, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” New York Times, September 8, 2018.
  44. 44. John Gans, “Col. Vindman and the Trumpification of the National Security Council,” New York Times, February 7, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/opinion/alexander-vindman-nsc-trump.html.
  45. 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. 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. 47. https://twitter.com/SteveScalise/status/1188510478634536962?s=20.
  48. 48. Dominic Green, “The Democratic Media Hate Trump More Than They Love Iran—or America,” Spectator USA, January 7, 2020.
  49. 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. 50. Amanda Prestigiacomo, “MSNBC’s Joy Reid Celebrates: ‘Trump’s Benghazi Unfolds In Iraq,’ ” Daily Wire, Janaury 1, 2020.
  51. 51. Sharyl Attkisson, “Media Mistakes in the Trump Era: The Definitive List,” updated May 3, 2020.
  52. 52. Ibid.
  53. 53. Ibid.
  54. 54. Ezra Klein, “The Media vs. Donald Trump: Why the Press Feels So Free to Criticize the Republican Nominee,” Vox, August 16, 2016.
  55. 55. Margaret Sullivan, “We Have Entered the Trump Unbound Era—and Journalists Need to Step It Up,” Washington Post, February 23, 2020.
  56. 56. Benjamin Hart, “Jeffrey Lord Isn’t on CNN Anymore, but He Still Loves Trump,” New York Intelligencer, July 21, 2019.
  57. 57. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Jeffery Lord, Trump Defender on CNN, Is Fired for Using Nazi Slogan,” New York Times, August 10, 2017.
  58. 58. “High School History Lesson Compares Trump with Nazis, Communists,” Associated Press, February 23, 2020.
  59. 59. Mike Ciandella and Rich Noyes, “HYPOCRISY: 7X More Coverage for Sessions Debacle than Holder Contempt,” NewsBusters, March 3, 2017.
  60. 60. Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “TV News vs. President Trump: The First 30 Days,” NewsBusters, March 2, 2017.
  61. 61. Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “Honeymoon from Hell: The Liberal Media vs. President Trump,” NewsBusters, April 19, 2017.
  62. 62. Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella, “Study: The Liberal Media’s Summer of Pummeling Trump,” NewsBusters, September 12, 2017.
  63. 63. Jennifer Harper, “Media Bias at CNN and MSNBC: Just 3% of Questions Friendly to GOP, Says Study,” Washington Times, August 20, 2019
  64. 64. Tim Hains, “MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell: ‘The President Is A Russian Operative,” Real Clear Politics, February 23, 2020, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/02/23/msnbcs_lawrence_odonnell_the_president_is_a_russian_operative.html.
  65. 65. Ian Schwartz, “Chris Hayes: This Is Not About The Wall, It’s About an ‘Ethnically Pure America,’ ” Real Clear Politics, January 11, 2019.
  66. 66. Curtis Houck, “Matthews: Trump Speech Was ‘Hitlerian,’ Jokes He Could Fix Nepotism Laws By Hanging Son-in-Law,” Newsbusters, January 20, 2017, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/01/20/matthews-trump-speech-was-hitlerian-jokes-he-could-fix-nepotism.
  67. 67. Tim Graham, “Roland Martin on MSNBC: All White Evangelical Trump-Backers Are ‘Christian Frauds,’ ” Newsbusters, March 1, 2020, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2020/03/01/roland-martin-msnbc-all-white-evangelical-trump-backers-are-christian-frauds.
  68. 68. Matthew Rozsa, “Joe Scarborough says that Donald Trump is either ‘an agent of Russia’ or ‘a useful idiot,’ ” Salon, November 14, 2019, https://www.salon.com/2019/11/14/joe-scarborough-says-that-donald-trump-is-either-an-agent-of-russia-or-a-useful-idiot/.
  69. 69. Curtis Houck, “ ’Hardball’ A-Block Freaks Over ‘Delusional,’ ‘Strong Man’ Trump, Compares Him to John Wilkes Booth,” Newsbusters, July 25, 2018, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/07/25/hardball-block-freaks-over-delusional-strong-man-trump-compares-him; Curtis Houck, “MSNBC’s Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Idi Amin, Kim Jong-Un: ‘He Loves the Parades!,’ ” Newsbusters, July 20, 2017, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/07/20/msnbcs-chris-matthews-compares-trump-kim-jong-un-he-loves-parades; Curtis Houck, “Matthews Suggests Trump Channel Mussolini, Murder Kushner; Compares Him to Ethiopian Dictator,” Newsbusters, July 29, 2017, https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2017/06/29/matthews-suggests-trump-channel-mussolini-murder-kushner-compares.
  70. 70. Rich Noyes, “Study: CNN Is Completely Obsessed with Donald Trump—and Not in a Good Way,” NewsBusters, May 16, 2017.
  71. 71. Ibid.
  72. 72. Ken Meyer, “CNN’s Stelter Looks Back on Taking Avenetti Seriously: ‘Was That Stupid on My Part?’ ” Mediate, February 16, 2020.
  73. 73. “PART 1: CNN Insider Blows Whistle on Network President Jeff Zucker’s Personal Vendetta Against POTUS,” Project Veritas, October 14, 2019, https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/10/14/exposecnnpart1/.
  74. 74. https://twitter.com/donie/status/1213953640198819847.
  75. 75. “CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: ‘The Internet Is Only Big Enough for One Fake News Site.’ ” The Babylon Bee, January 7, 2020.
  76. 76. “Press Release: FOX News Channel Dominates Basic Cable for 41 Consecutive Months in Total Day,” APNews.com, November 26, 2019, https://apnews.com/Business%20Wire/537d5013e4ba4c4db10ba941b9ee36a1.
  77. 77. Amber Athey, “Fox Wins Cable Battle—CNN Loses To Cartoon Network,” Daily Caller, June 5, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/06/05/fox-cnn-cable-ratings-cartoon-network/.
  78. 78. Eddie Scarry, “Journalists question Buzzfeed publishing unconfirmed intel report on Trump,” Washington Examiner, January 11, 2017, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/journalists-question-buzzfeed-publishing-unconfirmed-intel-report-on-trump.
  79. 79. Chuck Ross, “Emails: Jake Tapper Tore Into ‘Irresponsible’ BuzzFeed Editor for Publishing the ‘Steele Dossier,’ ” Tennessee Star, February 11, 2019, https://tennesseestar.com/2019/02/11/emails-jake-tapper-tore-into-irresponsible-buzzfeed-editor-for-publishing-the-steele-dossier/.
  80. 80. Mike Ciandella, “Nets Spend 44 Minutes on ‘One of the Great Political Smears of All Time,’ ” NewsBusters, January 11, 2017.
  81. 81. Bill D’Agostino, “Yellow Journalism: CNN Spouts Off About ‘Pee Tapes’ 77 Times in Five Days,” NewsBusters, April 16, 2018.
  82. 82. Chuck Ross, “WaPo Reporter: FBI and CIA Say They Doubt Major Dossier Allegation,” Daily Caller, December 16, 2018, https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/16/fbi-cia-doubted-dossier/.
  83. 83. Geoffrey Dickens, “CNN Promoted Story Debunked by James Comey,” NewsBusters, June 14, 2017.
  84. 84. Rowan Scarborough, “FBI-debunked Russia-Trump story helped New York Times win journalism award,” Washington Times, March 1, 2018. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/mar/1/fbi-debunked-russia-trump-story-helped-new-york-ti/.
  85. 85. “National Reporting,” Pulitzer.org, https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/209.
  86. 86. Rich Noyes, “Study: TV News Is Obsessed with Trump-Russia Probe,” NewsBusters, June 27, 2017; Rich Noyes, “Six Trump Accomplishments the Networks Ignored in 2017,” NewsBusters, January 17, 2018.
  87. 87. Ashley Feinberg, “The New York Times Unites Against Twitter,” Slate, August 15, 2019, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/new-york-times-meeting-transcript.html.
  88. 88. Ibid.
  89. 89. https://twitter.com/EricHolder/status/958757841116057600?s=20.
  90. 90. Conor Beck, “CNN Analyst Warns Against Releasing Nunes Memo: ‘Are We Going to Be a Democracy After Today?’,” Washington Free Beacon, February 1, 2018, https://freebeacon.com/national-security/cnn-analyst-warns-releasing-nunes-memo-are-be-democracy-today/.
  91. 91. Bret Stephens, “Devin Nunes’s Nothingburger,” New York Times, February 2, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/devin-nunes-memo.html.
  92. 92. Matthew Rozsa, “ ’Worse than a nothing burger’: The Nunes memo lands with a thud,” Salon, February 2, 2018, https://www.salon.com/2018/02/02/worse-than-a-nothingburger-the-nunes-memo-lands-with-a-dud/.
  93. 93. “Devin Nunes and the Nothing Burger Memo,” Washington Monthly, February 2, 2018, https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/02/02/devin-nunes-and-the-nothing-burger-memo/.
  94. 94. Charles P. Pierce, “ ‘Nothingburger’ Doesn’t Do This Memo Justice,” Esquire, February 2, 2018, https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a16306229/nunes-memo-nothingburger/.
  95. 95. Bill Press, “The GOP’s giant nothing burger,” Hill, February 5, 2018, https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/372439-press-the-gops-giant-nothing-burger.
  96. 96. “RE: Correcting the Record—The Russian Investigation,” unclassified memo of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2018, https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redacted_minority_memo_2.24.18.pdf.
  97. 97. Robert Schlesinger, “Nail in the Coffin for Nunes Memo,” U.S. News & World Report, February 24, 2018, https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-02-24/house-intelligences-democratic-russia-memo-finishes-off-nunes-nonsense.
  98. 98. “Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, December 2019 (revised), https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf.
  99. 99. Tim Hains, “Stephanopoulos To Adam Schiff: ‘Do You Accept You’re your Original Judgments Were Wrong’ About FISA Scandal? Real Clear Politics, December 15, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/12/15/stephanopoulos_to_adam_schiff_do_you_accept_that_your_original_judgments_were_wrong_about_fisa_scandal.html.
  100. 100. Matea Gold, “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun,” Washington Post, January 20, 2017.
  101. 101. Ibid.
  102. 102. Matthew Balan, “ABC’s Stephanopoulos: Trump Civil Suit Conviction Could Be ‘Impeachable,’ ” NewsBusters, November 10, 2016.
  103. 103. Greg Miller, Ellen Nakashima, and Shane Harris, “Trump’s Communications with Foreign Leader are Part of Whistleblower Complaint That Spurred Standoff between Spy Chief and Congress, Former Officials Say,” Washington Post, September 18, 2019.
  104. 104. Kenneth Vogel and David Stern, “Ukrainian Efforts to Sabotage Trump Backfire,” Politico, January 11, 2017.
  105. 105. “Opening Statement for Vindman and Williams Hearing on Impeachment,” House Intelligence Committee, November 19, 2019, https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/nunes_opening_statement_for_vindman_and_williams_hearing_on_impeachment.pdf.

CHAPTER 8: “ORGANIZED DESTRUCTION”:THE LEFT’S ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH

  1. 1. Dave Rubin, “So You Think You’re Tolerant?” PragerU, July 8, 2018; Kirsten Powers, The Silencing (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2013); David Marchese, “Bill Maher on the Perils of Political Correctness,” New York Times Magazine, September 30, 2019.
  2. 2. “7-Year-Old Suspended for Pointing Gun-Shaped Breakfast Pastry,” NBC Washington, March 4, 2013.
  3. 3. Kim R. Holmes, Ph.D., “How the Left Became So Intolerant,” Heritage Foundation, December 12, 2017.
  4. 4. Jim Goad, “The Corporate War on Free Speech,” Taki’s Magazine, March 5, 2018.
  5. 5. Scott Jaschik, “Is Heckling Right?,” Inside Higher Ed, February 17, 2010, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/02/17/heckling-right.
  6. 6. Kyle Smith, “Now Inclusion Means Exclusion,” National Review, March 14, 2018.
  7. 7. Joseph Curl, “Denver Post Columnist Says He Was Fired for Saying There Are Only Two Sexes,” Daily Wire, January 21, 2020.
  8. 8. Blake Neff, “New York Can Fine You $250k for ‘Misgendering’ Somebody,” Daily Caller, December 28, 2015.
  9. 9. Matt Welch, “Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrant Want the FCC to Revoke Sinclair’s Broadcast Licenses,” Reason, April 12, 2018.
  10. 10. Ibid.
  11. 11. Roger L. Simon, “Time to Cancel the ‘Cancel Culture,’ ” Epoch Times, January 15, 2020.
  12. 12. T. J. Roberts, “Cancel Culture: Its Causes and Its Consequences,” Advocates, February 24, 2020.
  13. 13. Robby Soave, “The Year in Cancel Culture,” Reason, December 31, 2019.
  14. 14. Douglas Murray, “How to Fight Back Against ‘Cancel Culture,’ ” The Spectator UK, January 25, 2020.
  15. 15. Lee C. Bollinger, “Free Speech on Campus Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You,” Atlantic, June 12, 2019.
  16. 16. Ibid.
  17. 17. “Free to Speak: Reforming the Higher Education Act,” National Association of Scholars, April 22, 2019.
  18. 18. Jonathan Turley, “Betsy DeVos Is Right to Fix Obama’s Campus Sexual Assault Policy,” Hill, September 12, 2017.
  19. 19. “Federal Government Mandates Unconstitutional Speech Codes at Colleges and Universities Nationwide,” FIRE, May 17, 2013.
  20. 20. Greg Lukianoff, “Feds to Students: You Can’t Say That,” Wall Street Journal, May 16, 2013.
  21. 21. Jonathan Turley, “Betsy DeVos Is Right to Fix Obama’s Campus Sexual Assault Policy.”
  22. 22. Ibid.
  23. 23. John Tierney, “Journalists Against Free Speech,” City Journal, Autumn 2019.
  24. 24. Gibson Chu, “UC Berkeley Professors Request Cancellation of Milo Yiannopoulos Talk,” Daily Californian, January 10, 2017.
  25. 25. Tierney, “Journalists Against Free Speech.”
  26. 26. Ibid.
  27. 27. Frances Floresca, “VETO: Student Gov. Denies Conservative Group Funding to Host Heather Mac Donald,” Campus Reform, October 28, 2019.
  28. 28. Heather Mac Donald, “Drawing the Line, at Last,” City Journal, April 22, 2019.
  29. 29. Ibid.
  30. 30. Ibid
  31. 31. Kassy Dillon, “Pro-life Group Sues CSU for Denying Funds Based on Content,” Campus Reform, January 17, 2017.
  32. 32. Anthony Gockowski, “Purdue Staff Member Calls Pro-Life Students ‘Vile, Racist Idiots,’ ” Campus Reform, February 8, 2016.
  33. 33. “University of Scranton: Denial of Recognition of Turning Point USA,” FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/cases/university-of-scranton-denial-of-recognition-of-turning-point-usa/.
  34. 34. “ ‘Yikes nope, denied’: University of Scranton Stands By as Student Government Denies Recognition to Conservative Group,” FIRE, December 5, 2019.
  35. 35. Disinvitation Attempts,” FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#home/?view_2_sort=field_6|desc&view_2_page=1&view_2_per_page=50.
  36. 36. “Free to Speak: Reforming the Higher Education Act,” National Association of Scholars, April 22, 2019.
  37. 37. “State of the Law: Speech Codes,” FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/legal/state-of-the-law-speech-codes/.
  38. 38. David Rosenthal, “Another College’s Speech Code at Odds with First Amendment Values,” Heritage Foundation, January 26, 2017.
  39. 39. John Agar, “Kellogg Community College Curbs Student’s Free Speech with Arrest, Lawsuit Says,” MLive, January 18, 2017.
  40. 40. FIRE, “What Are Speech Codes?” FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/resources/spotlight/what-are-speech-codes/.
  41. 41. Keith E. Whittington, Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018), xi, 30, 6.
  42. 42. Peter Berkowitz, “Colleges’ Central Mission Erodes—and Free Speech with It,” Real Clear Politics, April 7, 2018.
  43. 43. David L. Hudson Jr., First Amendment Scholar, and Lata Nott, Executive Director, First Amendment Center, “Hate Speech & Campus Speech Codes,” Freedom Forum Institute, March 2017.
  44. 44. Ibid.
  45. 45. Ibid.
  46. 46. Jonathan Turley, “No, the U.S. Does Not Need European-Style Hate Speech Laws,” USA Today, November 8, 2019.
  47. 47. Doug Stanglin, “What is antifa and what does the movement want?,” USA Today, August 23, 2017, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/23/what-antifa-and-what-does-movement-want/593867001/.
  48. 48. Anna Giaritelli, “Video Shows Car Set Ablaze by Alleged Antifa Shooter in Attack on ICE Detention Center,” Washington Examiner, August 16, 2019.
  49. 49. Robby Soave, “Yes, You Can Get Kicked Off Twitter for Saying ‘Learn To Code’—Even If It’s Not Harasssment,” Reason, March 11, 2019, https://reason.com/2019/03/11/learn-to-code-twitter-harassment-ross/.
  50. 50. Richard Hanania, “It Isn’t Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals,” Quillette, February 12, 2019.
  51. 51. Ibid.
  52. 52. Ibid.
  53. 53. Todd Spangler, “Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg Pulls for Hillary Clinton Presidential Win, Citing Her Kids,” Variety, July 29, 2016.
  54. 54. Ibid.
  55. 55. Kara Swisher, “Google Has Fired the Employee Who Penned a Controversial Memo on Women and Tech,” Vox, August 7, 2017.
  56. 56. David Crary, Rachel Zoll, and Michael Liedtke, “Mozilla CEO Resignation Raises Free-Speech Issue,” USA Today, April 4, 2014.
  57. 57. “Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent ‘Trump Situation” on Hidden Cam,” Bitchute, June 24, 2018.
  58. 58. Auguste Meyrat, “Here’s the Real Reason Most Conservative Elites Ignore Concerns About Free Speech,” Federalist, July 30, 2019.
  59. 59. Ben Domenech, “How Tech Bias Became a Kitchen Table Issue,” Federalist, June 25, 2019.
  60. 60. Ibid.
  61. 61. Ibid.
  62. 62. Brad Parscale, “Democrats Want to Limit Free Speech, Regain an Iron Grip on ‘The Narrative,’ ” Townhall, November 1, 2019.
  63. 63. Ibid.
  64. 64. Josh Hawley, “Senator Hawley Introduces Legislation to Amend Section 230 Immunity for Big Tech Companies,” Hawley.Senate.gov, June 19, 2019.
  65. 65. Peter Ban Buren, “When Censorship Moves Way Beyond Alex Jones,” American Conservative, June 17, 2019.
  66. 66. Ibid.
  67. 67. Editorial, “Adam Schiff Renews the Democratic War Against the First Amendment,” Washington Examiner, May 10, 2019.
  68. 68. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310, 2010.
  69. 69. Hans A. von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery, “Senate Democrats Again Pushing to Silence Freedom of Speech,” Heritage Foundation, June 2, 2014.
  70. 70. Editorial, “Adam Schiff Renews the Democratic War Against the First Amendment,” Washington Examiner, May 10, 2019.
  71. 71. Von Spakovsky and Slattery, “Senate Democrats Again Pushing to Silence Freedom of Speech.”
  72. 72. “Rep Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment to Overturn Citizens United,” Press Release, Office of Congressman Adam Schiff, May 8, 2019, https://schiff.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-schiff-introduces-constitutional-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united.
  73. 73. “Is H.R. 1 Really ‘for the People?’ ” Heritage Action, March 7, 2019.
  74. 74. Editorial, “Dems Priority List Includes Attacks on Free Speech and Gun Rights,” Investors’ Business Daily, November 12, 2018.
  75. 75. Ronald Newman and Kate Ruane, American Civil Liberties Union, “Letter to Rep. Jim McGovern and Rep. Tom Cole,” ACLU, March 1, 2019, https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/2019-03-01_aclu_letter_to_house_rules_committee_on_h.r._1.pdf.
  76. 76. Caleb Parke, “Democratic Party Embraces Nonreligious Voters, Criticizes ‘Religious Liberty’ in New Resolution,” Fox News, August 29, 2019.
  77. 77. Ibid.
  78. 78. Ibid.
  79. 79. Democratic National Committee, “Resolution Regarding the Religiously Unaffiliated Demographic,” Secular.org, August 2019, https://secular.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DNC-Resolution-on-the-Nonreligious-Demographic.pdf.
  80. 80. David French, “Yes, American Religious Liberty Is in Peril,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2019.
  81. 81. Casey Chalk, “Religious People Think Democrats Will Strip Our Rights Because It’s True,” Federalist, January 1, 2020.
  82. 82. Joseph D’Souza, “Can We Trust the Democratic Presidential Candidates to Defend Religious Freedom,” Washington Examiner, October 28, 2019.
  83. 83. Ibid.
  84. 84. President Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Values Voter Summit,” Whitehouse.gov, October 12, 2019.
  85. 85. Mark David Hall, “Donald Trump and Religious Liberty,” Imaginative Conservative, January 20, 2020.
  86. 86. Attorney General William Barr, “Remarks to the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame,” Justice.org, October 11, 2019.
  87. 87. Brian Leiter, Why Tolerate Religion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014).
  88. 88. Micah Schwartzman, “What If Religion Is Not So Special,” University of Chicago Law Review, January 11, 2013.

CHAPTER 9: TRUMP TRIUMPHS

  1. 1. Ed Pilkington, “Obama angers midwest voters with guns and religion remark,” Guardian, April 14, 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/14/barackobama.uselections2008.
  2. 2. Ibid.
  3. 3. Tim Marcini, “Democratic Congressman Compares Donald Trump to Hitler, Calls President ‘Racist Strongman,’ ” Newsweek, January 3, 2019.
  4. 4. “Everything You Need to Know About the Tax Cut and Jobs Act,” Tax Foundation, https://taxfoundation.org/tax-reform-explained-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/.
  5. 5. Adam Michel, “Analysis of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Job Acts,” Heritage Foundation, December 19, 2017.
  6. 6. “President Donald J. Trump’s Achievements, Economy and Jobs,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/economy-and-jobs/.
  7. 7. Tyler Durden, “Barack Obama Is Now the Only President in History to Never Have a Year of 3% GDP Growth,” Zero Hedge, January 27, 2017.
  8. 8. Amanda Prestigiacomo, “Obama Tries to Take Credit for Trump’s Economy. It Backfires Bigly,” Daily Wire, February 17, 2020.
  9. 9. “Economic Growth Has Reached 3 Percent for the First Time in More than a Decade Thanks to President Donald J. Trump’s Policies,” WhiteHouse.gov, February 28, 2019.
  10. 10. Lawrence H. Summers, “Larry Summers: Trump’s Budget is Simply Ludicrous,” Washington Post, May 23, 2017.
  11. 11. Susan Jones, “155,965,000 Employed in July; 11th Record-Setter Under Trump,” CNS News, August 3, 2018.
  12. 12. Council of Economic Advisers, “Unemployment Rate Falls to Lowest Level in Nearly 50 Years; U.S. Economy Adds 263,000 New Jobs in April,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 3, 2019.
  13. 13. “US Job Openings Jump to Record High of 7.3 Million,” CNBC, February 12, 2019.
  14. 14. Council of Economic Advisers, “U.S. Unemployment Rate Remains at Near-Historic Low of 3.7 Percent; African-American Unemployment Rate Hits New Series Low,” WhiteHouse.gov, https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/u-s-unemployment-rate-remains-at-near-historic-low-of-3-7-percent-african-american-unemployment-rate-hits-new-series-low/.
  15. 15. Ibid.
  16. 16. Paul Bedard, “Boom: Best Economic Optimism in 16 Years, 50% ‘Better Off’ Under Trump,” Washington Examiner, February 11, 2019.
  17. 17. Joe Williams, “Manufacturing Confidence at All-Time High Despite Workforce Shortage,” Washington Examiner, October 5, 2018.
  18. 18. Council of Economic Advisers, “U.S. Unemployment Rate Remains at Near-Historic Low of 3.7 Percent.”
  19. 19. Council of Economic Advisers, “Job Market Continues to Crush Expectations in 2020,” WhiteHouse.gov, February 7, 2020.
  20. 20. Justin Haskins, “Trump’s Big Reelection Weapon: A Remarkable Manufacturing Jobs Boom,” Hill, January 23, 2020.
  21. 21. Council of Economic Advisers, “Job Market Continues to Crush Expectations in 2020.”
  22. 22. Council of Economic Advisers, “U.S. Unemployment Rate Remains at Near-Historic Low of 3.7 Percent.”
  23. 23. Elaine Parker, “Women Are Winning in the Trump Economy,” Real Clear Politics, October 2, 2018.
  24. 24. Council of Economic Advisers, “U.S. Job Growth Remains Strong, Adding 196,000 Jobs in March and Surpassing Market Expectations,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 5, 2019.
  25. 25. Haskins, “Trump’s Big Reelection Weapon: A Remarkable Manufacturing Jobs Boom.”
  26. 26. Ibid.
  27. 27. Eric Morath and Jeffery Sparshott, “Rank-and-File Workers Get Bigger Raises,” Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2019.
  28. 28. Stephen Moore, “Trump’s Middle-Class Economic Progress,” WSJ Opinion, September 29, 2019.
  29. 29. Frank Connor, “Income Inequality Declining Under Trump Policies, Says Labor Secretary,” Fox Business, January 24, 2020.
  30. 30. Council of Economic Advisers, “The Blue-Collar Labor Boom Reduces Inequality,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 15, 2020.
  31. 31. Stephen Moore, “It’s a Middle-Class Boom,” Real Clear Politics, October 15, 2019.
  32. 32. Stephen Moore, “Contrary to What the Media Reports, Middle Class Americans Are Surging,” Hill, January 6, 2020.
  33. 33. Ibid.
  34. 34. Paul Bedard, “Exclusive: Trump List Shows 319 ‘Results’ and Promises Kept in Three Years,” Washington Examiner, December 31, 2019, https://www.scribd.com/document/441370872/ACFrOgAUTMl8Xt31z9R-Bha0n5a-c1S2g31eEYqYd9r9EG1r7I6PoFo9orDZoay8eaEN1BNbXyne01QqUo19M2cM60XJO4QgQ2RtpPLz-4-uo9-KQ6EE7HLrMsLpIEs#fullscreen&from_embed.
  35. 35. Evie Fordham, “Trump Touts ‘Single Largest Decline’ In Drug Prices in Nearly 50 Years,” Daily Caller, February 5, 2019.
  36. 36. “Costs and Burden of Federal Regulations Reach $1.9 Trillion,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, May 31, 2017.
  37. 37. Haskins, “Trump’s Big Reelection Weapon: A Remarkable Manufacturing Jobs Boom.”
  38. 38. Cheryl Bolen, “Trump Touts Regulatory Savings of Nearly $50 Billion for Economy,” Bloomberg Law, October 21, 2019.
  39. 39. Hayley Sledge, “Trump Deregulation Will Save $3100 Per Household, CEA Reports,” Heartland Institute, August 8, 2019.
  40. 40. President Donald J. Trump, “President Trump’s Historic Deregulation Is Benefitting All Americans,” WhiteHouse.gov, October 21, 2019.
  41. 41. Kenneth Corbin, “White House Looks to Relax Rules for Workplace Retirement Plans,” Benefit News, August 31, 2018.
  42. 42. Nate Madden, “Trump Takes Aim at ‘Out-of-Control Bureaucracy’ with 2 New Executive Orders,” Conservative Review, October 10, 2019.
  43. 43. Keith Good, “Trump Administration Rolls Back ‘Waters of the U.S.’ Rule,” Farm Policy News, September 19, 2109.
  44. 44. Oliver Milman, “Trump Administration Scraps Obama-era Regulation on Coal Emissions,” Guardian, August 21, 2018.
  45. 45. William Yeatman, “Congress Should Eliminate Obama’s Stream Protection Rule,” Competitive Enterprise Institute, January 31, 2017.
  46. 46. Devin Henry, “Trump Signs Bill Undoing Obama Coal Mining Rule,” Hill, February 11, 2017.
  47. 47. “Trump Administration Replaces Obama-era Power Plant Rule, in Boost to Coal,” Reuters, June 19, 2019.
  48. 48. Todd Spangler and Nathan Bomey, “Trump Administration Wants to Freeze Gas-Mileage Standards, Reversing Obama,” USA Today, August 2, 2018.
  49. 49. Juliet Ellperin and Brady Dennis, “Trump Promised His Mileage Standards Would Make Cars Cheaper and Safer. New Documents Raise Doubts About That,” Washington Post, January 23, 2020.
  50. 50. Tom Krisher and Ellen Knickmeyer, “Trump Ups Mileage Proposal, But It’s Well Below Obama Plan,” Associated Press, January 24, 2020.
  51. 51. President Donald J. Trump, “Executive Order Establishing a White House Council on Eliminating Regulatory Barriers to Affordable Housing,” White House.gov, June 25, 2019.
  52. 52. Juliet Ellperin, “Trump Signs Executive Order to Expand Drilling off America’s Coasts: ‘We’re Opening It Up,’ ” Washington Post, April 28, 2017.
  53. 53. “Judge Throws Out Trump Order That Overturned Obama Offshore Drilling Ban in Arctic,” CNBC, March 30, 2019.
  54. 54. Elizabeth Harball, “Trump Administration Appeals Ruling That Blocked Arctic Offshore Drilling,” Alaska Public, May 28, 2019.
  55. 55. “President Donald J. Trump’s Achievements, Energy and the Environment,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/energy-and-environment/.
  56. 56. Emily Holden, “Trump Opens Protected Alaskan Arctic Refuge to Oil Drillers,” Guardian, September 12, 2019.
  57. 57. David Smith, “Trump Orders Revival of Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines,” Guardian, January 24, 2017.
  58. 58. “President Donald J. Trump Achievements, Energy and Environment,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/energy-and-environment/.
  59. 59. Nina Lakhani, “Major Blow to Keystone XL Pipeline as Judge Revokes Key Permit,” Guardian, April 15, 2020.
  60. 60. Timothy Cama, “Trump Approves US-Mexico Pipeline: ‘That’ll Go Right Under the Wall,” Hill, June 29, 2017.
  61. 61. “President Donald J. Trump Achievements, Energy and Environment,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/energy-and-environment/.
  62. 62. Matt Egan, “America Is Now the World’s Largest Oil Producer,” CNN Business, September 12, 2018.
  63. 63. “Oil Exploration Firm Claims Discovery of Huge Alaska Deposit,” MSN.com, April 10, 2020.
  64. 64. David J. Lynch, Josh Dawsey, and Damian Paletta, “Trump Imposes Steel and Aluminum Tariffs on the E.U., Canada and Mexico,” Washington Post, May 31, 2018.
  65. 65. Iain Muray, “Free Traders Shouldn’t Mourn the Loss of the TPP,” Foundation for Economic Education, January 26, 2017.
  66. 66. David Smith and Dominic Rushe, “Trump and EU Officials Agree to Work Toward ‘Zero Tariff’ Deal,” Guardian, July 25, 2018.
  67. 67. Sergei Klebnikov, “6 Key Takeaways from the U.S.–Japan Trade Deal,” Forbes, October 8, 2019.
  68. 68. “Cuba Denounces Trump’s Policy Rollback,” BBC News, June 17, 2017.
  69. 69. Jessica Campisi, “US Imposes New Sanctions on Cuba Over Human Rights, Venezuela,” Hill, October 18, 2019.
  70. 70. Jeff Faux, “NAFTA’s Impact on U.S. Workers,” Economic Policy Institute, December 9, 2013.
  71. 71. Ana Swanson and Jim Tankersley, “Trump Just Signed the U.S.M.C.A. Here’s What’s in the New NAFTA,” New York Times, January 29, 2020.
  72. 72. “President Trump Announces Strong Actions to Address China’s Unfair Trade,” Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, March 22, 2018.
  73. 73. Don Lee, “Trump Bans Huawei in U.S. Markets, Saying Chinese Firm Poses Security Threat,” Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2019.
  74. 74. “Making America Great Again, Trade and Foreign Policy,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/foreign-policy/.
  75. 75. Yun Li, “Trump Says US Will Impose 10% Tariffs on Another $300 Billion of Chinese Goods Starting Sept. 1,” CNBC, August 1, 2019.
  76. 76. Alan Rappeport and Keith Bradsher, “Trump Says He Will Raise Existing Tariffs on Chinese Goods to 30%,” New York Times, August 23, 2019.
  77. 77. Thomas Franck, “Trump Halts New China Tariffs and Rolls Back Some of the Prior Duties on $120 Billion of Imports,” CNBC, December 13, 2019.
  78. 78. Bedard, “Exclusive: Trump List Shows 319 ‘Results’ and Promises Kept in Three Years.”
  79. 79. Thomas Franck, “Trump Halts New China Tariffs and Rolls Back Some of the Prior Duties on $120 Billion of Imports,” CNBC, December 13, 2019.
  80. 80. George R. Altman and Leo Shane III, “The Obama Era Is Over. Here’s How the Military Rates His Legacy,” Military Times, January 8, 2017.
  81. 81. Barack Obama, “Read President Obama’s Commencement Address at West Point in 2014,” Time, https://time.com/4341783/obamas-commencement-transcript-speech-west-point-2014/; http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-commencement-address-at-west-point/2014/05/28/cfbcdcaa-e670-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_story.html.
  82. 82. Altman and Shane III, “The Obama Era is Over. Here’s How the Military Rates His Legacy.”
  83. 83. James Jay Carafano, “Yes: Obama-Era Cuts Left U.S. Too Weak to Deal with Multiple Global Menaces,” Heritage Foundation, March 24, 2017.
  84. 84. Thomas C. Donnelly, “Doctrine of Decline,” National Review, January 23, 2017.
  85. 85. Ibid.
  86. 86. Philip Ewing, “Fact Check: Has President Obama ‘Depleted’ the Military?” NPR, April 29, 2016.
  87. 87. Mark Moyar, “How Obama Shrank the Military,” Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2015.
  88. 88. Ibid.
  89. 89. Ibid.
  90. 90. Ibid.
  91. 91. Lawrence J. Korb, “Trump’s Defense Budget,” Center for American Progress, February 28, 2018.
  92. 92. Amy Bushatz, “Trump Signs 2018 Defense Bill: Here’s What It Means for You,” Military.com, December 12, 2017.
  93. 93. “Making America Great Again, National Security and Defense,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/national-security-and-defense/.
  94. 94. Leo Shane III and Joe Gould, “Trump Praises US Military Buildup but Vows Overseas Troop Cuts in State of the Union Address,” Defense News, February 6, 2020.
  95. 95. “Making America Great Again, National Security and Defense,” Promises Kept, https://www.promiseskept.com/achievement/overview/national-security-and-defense/.
  96. 96. Nancy A. Youssef and Gordon Lubold, “Trump Announces Creation of U.S. Space Command,” Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2019.
  97. 97. Rachel S. Cohen, “Space Force Established as Trump Signs NDAA,” Air Force Magazine, December 20, 2019.
  98. 98. “VA Mission Act,” Military Benefits, https://militarybenefits.info/va-mission-act/.
  99. 99. Jessica Kim Cohen, “Telemedicine Growth Follows ‘Anywhere to Anywhere’ Rule at VA,” Modern Healthcare, November 25, 2019.
  100. 100. Geoff Bennett, “Congress Passes Bill to Increase Accountability Among VA Employees,” NPR, June 13, 2017.
  101. 101. “Veterans Appeals Improvement and Modernization Act of 2017,” VFW.org, May 2, 2017.
  102. 102. Elizabeth Howe, “The White House VA Hotline Has Answered 250,000 Calls,” Connectingvets.com, May 22, 2019.
  103. 103. “VA and White House Launch Veteran Suicide-Prevention Task Force,” VA.gov, June 17, 2019.
  104. 104. President Donald J. Trump, “President Donald J. Trump Is Working Tirelessly to Provide the Benefits and Services That Our Brave Veterans Deserve,” WhiteHouse.gov, August 21, 2019.
  105. 105. “Latest Employment Numbers,” United States Department of Labor, https://www.dol.gov/agencies/vets/latest-numbers.
  106. 106. “NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg After 1:1 Meeting/London, United Kingdom,” WhiteHouse.gov, December 3, 2019.
  107. 107. Jessica Donati and Peter Nicholas, “With Evangelicals Behind Him, Vice President Mike Pence Takes Prominent Role in Foreign Policy,” Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2019.
  108. 108. President Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on His Trip to Asia,” WhiteHouse.gov, November 15, 2017.
  109. 109. Steve Holland and Matthew Tostevin, “Trump Brings Tough Trade Message in Vision for Asia,” Reuters, November 10, 2017.
  110. 110. “U.S. Imposes Sanctions on People, Firms It Says Helped North Korea Evade Sanctions,” Reuters, August 30, 2019.
  111. 111. Tom O’Connor, “What’s Next for Kim Jon Un and Donald Trump? U.S., China and Russia React to North Korea’s New Warning,” Newsweek, January 3, 2020.
  112. 112. Brooke Singman, “US Opens Embassy in Jerusalem, Recognizing City as ‘True Capital’ of Israel,” Fox News, May 14, 2018.
  113. 113. Eli Rosenberg and Carol Morello, “U.S. Withdraws from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural organization, Citing Anti-Israel Bias,” Washington Post, October 12, 2017.
  114. 114. Vanessa Romo, “Trump Formally Recognizes Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights,” NPR, March 25, 2019.
  115. 115. “Presidential Executive Order on Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States,” WhiteHouse.gov, July 21, 2017.
  116. 116. Carol Morello, “Trump Administration Hits Iran with Fresh Sanctions After Attack on U.S. Forces,” Washington Post, January 10, 2020.
  117. 117. “Joined by Allies, President Trump Takes Action to End Syria’s Chemical Weapons Attacks,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 14, 2018.
  118. 118. Kathy Gilsinan, “An American Prisoner Comes Home from Iran,” Atlantic, December 7, 2019.
  119. 119. John Fritze and Deirdre Shesgreen, “Trump Says U.S. Citizen Danny Burch Held in Yemen Has Returned to Family,” USA Today, February 25, 2019.
  120. 120. Brady Dennis, “Trump Makes it Official: U.S. Will Withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord,” Washington Post, November 4, 2019.
  121. 121. Thomas L. Mason, “Obama’s Parting Shot,” Washington Times, December 15, 2016.
  122. 122. David Brown, “Trump Says U.S. ‘Will Never Ratify’ Arms Trade Treaty,” Politico, April 26, 2019.
  123. 123. Carle Hulse, “Trump and Senate Republicans Celebrate Making the Courts More Conservative,” New York Times, November 6, 2019.
  124. 124. “Judicial Appointment Tracker,” Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/judicialtracker.
  125. 125. Richard A. Arenberg, “The Trumpification of the Federal Courts,” The Hill, January 6, 2020.
  126. 126. Bedard, “Exclusive: Trump List Shows 319 ‘Results’ and Promises Kept in Three Years”; “President Donald J. Trump Is Appointing a Historic Number of Federal Judges to Uphold Our Constitution as Written,” WhiteHouse.gov, November 6, 2019.
  127. 127. “Donald Trump on Abortion,” On the Issues, https://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Donald_Trump_Abortion.htm.
  128. 128. “Trump Reinstates ‘Mexico City Policy’ on Abortion,” Long Island Catholic, January 23, 2020.
  129. 129. Jonathan Abbamonte, “House Democrats Push for a Repeal of the Mexico City Policy,” Population Research Institute, January 23, 2019.
  130. 130. Claire Chretien, “US Still Gives Millions to American Pro-Abort Groups That Work Internationally: New Plan Would Stop It,” LifeSite News, January 23, 2020.
  131. 131. “U.S. Withdraws Funding for U.N. Population Fund,” Reuters, April 3, 2017.
  132. 132. Jina Moore, “The Trump Administration Just Cut All Funding for the UN’s Family Planning Agency,” BuzzFeed News, April 3, 2017.
  133. 133. “U.S. Withdraws Funding for U.N. Population Fund,” Reuters, April 3, 2017.
  134. 134. Colin Dwyer, “Trump Signs Law Giving States Option to Deny Funding for Planned Parenthood,” NPR, April 13, 2017.
  135. 135. Jessie Hellman, “Trump Administration Rescinds Obama Guidance on Defunding Planned Parenthood,” Hill, January 19, 2018.
  136. 136. Arian Eunjung Cha, “Is it a Gag Rule After All? A Closer Look at Changes to Title X Funding Regarding Abortion,” Washington Post, May 23, 2018, and “Statutes and Regulations, Title X Notice of Final Rule,” HHS.gov, March 4, 2019.
  137. 137. Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Lauran Neergaard, “Trump Halts Fetal Tissue Research by Government Scientists,” ABC News, June 5, 2019.
  138. 138. “President Trump’s Pro-Life Wins,” Susan B. Anthony List, https://www.sba-list.org/trump-pro-life-wins.
  139. 139. Tim Hains, “Trump Speaks at Annual ‘March for Life’ Rally: ‘Unborn Children Have Never Had a Stronger Defender,’ ” Real Clear Politics, January 24, 2020.
  140. 140. Phil Thomas and Clark Mindock, “Trump Calls for Ban to ‘Late-term’ Abortion During State of the Union Address,” Independent, February 5, 2020.
  141. 141. Ali Vitali, “Trump Signs ‘Religious Liberty’ Executive Order Allowing for Broad Exemptions,” NBC News, May 4, 2017.
  142. 142. Emma Green, “Why Trump’s Executive Order on Religious Liberty Left Many Conservatives Dissatisfied,” Atlantic, May 4, 2017.
  143. 143. Jess Bravin, “Trump Administration Backs Baker Who Refused to Make Wedding Cake for Gay Couple,” Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2017.
  144. 144. “Executive Order on the Establishment of a White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative,” WhiteHouse.gov, May 3, 2018.
  145. 145. “HHS Announces Final Conscience Rule Protecting Health Care Entities and Individuals,” HHS.gov, May 2, 2019.
  146. 146. “United States Hosts First-Ever Ministerial to Advance International Religious Freedom,” U.S. Department of State, July 27, 2018, https://medium.com/statedept/united-states-hosts-first-ever-ministerial-to-advance-international-religious-freedom-ff84a3f174c7.
  147. 147. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, “Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks at the Department of Justice’s Religious Liberty Summit,” United States Department of Justice, July 30, 2018.
  148. 148. Kelsey Dallas, “Justice Department Speaks Out on Church Closures, Condemns Religious Freedom Violations in New Statement,” Deseret News, April 14, 2020.
  149. 149. Devin Dwyer, “Supreme Court to Decide Fate of Cross-Shaped WWI Memorial in Maryland,” ABC News, February 25, 2019.
  150. 150. Adiel Kaplan, David Mora, Maya Miller, and Andrew R. Calderon, “Trump Admin Files More Briefs in Religious Liberty Cases than Obama, Bush,” NBC News, February 24, 2019.
  151. 151. Tim Haines, “President Trump at UN Summit: USA Calls On the World to End Religious Persecution,” Real Clear Politics, September 23, 2019.
  152. 152. Samuel Smith, “Trump Announces $25 Million Fund, New Business Coalition to Protect Religious Freedom,” Christian Post, September 23, 2019.
  153. 153. Mary Margaret Olohan, “HHS Secretary Tells UN General Assembly: ‘There Is No International Right to an Abortion,” Daily Signal, September 25, 2019.
  154. 154. Moriah Balingit and Ariana Eunjung Cha, “Trump Administration Moves to Protect Prayer in Public Schools and Federal Funds for Religious Organizations,” Washington Post, January 16, 2020.
  155. 155. Ewelina U. Ochab, “U.S. Launches the First-Ever International Religious Freedom Alliance,” Forbes, February 6, 2020.
  156. 156. Mairead McCardle, “Trump Says Federal Government Will Begin Withholding Funds from Sanctuary Cities After Court Ruling,” National Review, March 5, 2020.
  157. 157. Jeremy Diamond, “Trump Orders Construction of Border Wall, Boosts Deportation Force,” CNN Politics, January 15, 2017.
  158. 158. White House, “Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States,” January 25, 2017.
  159. 159. White House, “Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements,” January 25, 2017.
  160. 160. White House, “Executive Order: Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” January 27, 2017.
  161. 161. Michael D. Shear, Nicholas Kulish, and Alan Feuer, “Judge Blocks Trump Order on Refugees Amid Chaos and Outcry Worldwide,” New York Times, January 28, 2017.
  162. 162. Adam Liptak, “Court Refuses to Reinstate Travel Ban, Dealing Trump Another Legal Loss,” New York Times, February 9, 2017.
  163. 163. Hans A. von Spakovsky, “Why the U.S. Is Right to Refuse to Sign UN Migration Compact,” Heritage Foundation, December 11, 2018.
  164. 164. Aria Bendix, “Trump Rolls Back DAPA,” Atlantic, June 16, 2017.
  165. 165. David Jackson, Kevin Johnson, and Alan Gomez, “Trump Winds Down DACA Program for Undocumented Immigrants, Gives Congress 6 Months to Act,” USA Today, September 5, 2017.
  166. 166. Ron Nixon, Liz Robbins, and Katie Benner, “Trump Targets MS-13, a Violent Menace, if Not the One He Portrays,” New York Times, March 1, 2018.
  167. 167. “3,800 Gang Members Charged in Operation Spanning United States and Central America,” United States Department of Justice, September 29, 2017.
  168. 168. DoD News, “National Guard Troops Deploy to Southern U.S. Border,” Army .mil, April 9, 2018.
  169. 169. Peter Baker, “Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash,” New York Times, February 15, 2019.
  170. 170. Jose Cabezas, “Mexico Says National Guard Deployment to Southern Border Starts on Wednesday,” Reuters, June 12, 2019.
  171. 171. “U.S. Border: Mexico Announces 56% Migrant Drop After Crackdown,” BBC, September 6, 2019.
  172. 172. Saagar Enjeti, “Trump Has Secured Funding for More than Half of Border Wall,” Daily Caller, March 7, 2019.
  173. 173. Saagar Enjeti, “Trump’s Prophecy on Border Wall Lawsuit Comes True,” Daily Caller, February 19, 2019.
  174. 174. Miriam Jordan, “Judge Issues Nationwide Injunction Blocking Border Wall Funding,” New York Times, December 10, 2019.
  175. 175. Josh Gerstein, “Appeals Court Lifts Block on $3.6 Billion for Trump Border Wall Plan,” Politico, January 8, 2020.
  176. 176. President Trump’s Bold Immigration Plan for the 21st Century,” White House.gov, May 21, 2019.
  177. 177. “Department of Justice Prosecuted a Record-Breaking Number of Immigration-Related Cases in Fiscal Year 2019,” United States Department of Justice, October 17, 2019.
  178. 178. Fact Sheet, “President Donald J. Trump Has Made It a Priority to Combat the Heinous Crime of Human Trafficking,” WhiteHouse.gov, October 29, 2019.
  179. 179. Kevin Johnson and Kristine Phillips, “Trump Administration Cracks Down on Sanctuary Communities; AG Touts New Legal Challlenges,” USA Today, February 11, 2020.
  180. 180. Pam Fessler, “Trump Administration Rule Would Penalize Immigrants for Needing Benefits,” NPR, August 12, 2019.
  181. 181. Nicole Narea, “Trump’s Rule Creating a Wealth Test for Immigrants Is Now in Effect,” Vox, February 24, 2020.
  182. 182. Editorial Board, “Obamacare’s Tax on the Poor,” Wall Street Journal, September 22, 2017.
  183. 183. Peter Sullivan, “Analysis: Repeal of Obamacare Taxes in Bipartisan Spending Deal Costs $373B,” Hill, December 17, 2019.
  184. 184. President Donald J. Trump, “Presidential Executive Order Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States,” WhiteHouse.gov, October 12, 2017.
  185. 185. “AlphaBay, the Largest Online ‘Dark Market’ Shut Down,” Justice.gov., July 20, 2017.
  186. 186. “Ending America’s Opioid Crisis,” WhiteHouse.gov, https://www.whitehouse.gov/opioids/.
  187. 187. Rema Rahman and Andrew Siddons, “Trump Declares Opioid Crisis a ‘National Health Emergency,’ ” Roll Call, October 26, 2017.
  188. 188. “Ending America’s Opioid Crisis,” WhiteHouse.gov, https://www.whitehouse.gov/opioids/.
  189. 189. “USDA Invests More than $1 Billion to Improve Health Care in Rural Areas,” USDA, November 17, 2017.
  190. 190. Julie Rovner, “CHIP Renewed for Six Years as Congress Votes to Reopen Federal Government,” Kaiser Health News, January 22, 2018; Heather Long, “Let’s Remember: 9 Million Kids’ Health Insurance Is at Stake in This Budget Fight,” Washington Post, January 18, 2018.
  191. 191. Jessie Hellmann, “Trump Signs ‘right to try’ Drug Bill,’ The Hill, May 30, 2018.
  192. 192. Avik Roy, “Trump’s New Medicare Rule to Reduce Prescription Drug Prices Through Competition,” Forbes, August 7, 2018.
  193. 193. Berkeley Lovelace Jr., “Trump Signs Executive Order on Medicare, Says He Won’t Let Democrats Steal Your Health Care,” CNBC, October 3, 2019.
  194. 194. Kate Patrick, “FDA Approves Record Number of Generic Drugs, but Do They Help Lower Drug Prices?” Inside Sources, October 23, 2019.
  195. 195. Council of Economic Advisers, “Prescription Drug Prices Are Falling at Historic Levels Thanks to Trump Administration Policies,” WhiteHouse.gov, November 5, 2019.
  196. 196. Jocelyn Kaiser, “Researchers Weigh In on Trump’s $500 Million Plan to Share Childhood Cancer Data,” Science Magazine, August 5, 2019.
  197. 197. Madeleine Carlisle, “Federal Legal Age to Buy Tobacco Products Officially Raised to 21,” Time, December 23, 2019.
  198. 198. German Lopez, “The First Step Act, Explained,” Vox, February 5, 2019.
  199. 199. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2018 Project Safe Neighborhoods National Conference,” WhiteHouse.gov, December 7, 2018.
  200. 200. Melanie Arter, “Trump Credits Project Safe Neighborhoods with Drop in Homicides During His Adminstration,” CNS News, February 14, 2019.

CHAPTER 10: TRUMP’S RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS AND AMERICA’S GREAT COMEBACK

  1. 1. Audrey Conklin, “China’s 3-week delay in coronavirus response accelerated spread: study,” Fox Business, March 19, 2020.
  2. 2. “60% of Democrats Blame Trump More Than China for Coronavirus,” Rasmussen Reports, April 20, 2020.
  3. 3. Dave Sminara, “The Democrats’ 2020 Coronavirus Hindsight,” Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2020.
  4. 4. Ibid.
  5. 5. Patrick Goodenough, “Coronavirus Was All but Ignored in First Three Democrat Debates of the Year,” CNS News, April 20, 2020.
  6. 6. Ibid.
  7. 7. Ibid.
  8. 8. Jake Tapper, “Biden Campaign Says He Backs Trump’s China Travel Ban,” CNN, April 3, 2020.
  9. 9. “Tapper presses Polosi on new coronavirus law,” CNN.com, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/04/26/sotu-nancy-pelosi-full.cnn.
  10. 10. Mairead McCardle, “Pelosi Denies Downplaying Coronavirus by Inviting People to ‘Come to Chinatown’ in February, Claims She Was Fighting ‘Discrimination,’ ” National Review, April 20, 2020; “Chris Wallace grills Pelosi on her own disregard for social distancing,” Fox News YouTube Channel, April 19, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2CJ0PNLNKw.
  11. 11. Nick Arama, “Holy Cow: Dan Crenshaw Takes Apart Bill Maher on Trump Response to Virus, Just Leaves Him Wrecked,” Red State, April 19, 2020.
  12. 12. “Emergency Preparedness and Response,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Janaury 17, 2020.
  13. 13. Bret Baier, “Sources Believe Coronavirus Outbreak Originated in Wuhan Lab as Part of China’s Efforts to Compete with US,” Fox News, April 17, 2020.
  14. 14. “Emergency Preparedness and Response,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Janaury 17, 2020.
  15. 15. “Press Release: Public Health Screening to Begin at 3 U.S. Airports for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (‘2019-nCoV’),” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 17, 2020.
  16. 16. Elizabeth Cohen, “Vaccine for New Chinese Coronavirus in the Works,” CNN, January 20, 2020.
  17. 17. “Initial Public Health Response and Interim Clinical Guidance for the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak—United States, December 31, 2019–February 4, 2020,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, February 7, 2020.
  18. 18. CDC Newsroom, “First Travel-Related Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Detected in the United States,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, January 21, 2020.
  19. 19. Julie Steenhuysen, “U.S. Health Officials Seek Emergency Approval to Use Diagnostic Test for New Coronavirus,” U.S. News & World Report, January 23, 2020.
  20. 20. “Statement from the Press Secretary Regarding the President’s Coronavirus Task Force,” WhiteHouse.gov, Janaury 29, 2020.
  21. 21. “Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 31, 2020.
  22. 22. “DHS Issues Supplemental Instructions for Inbound Flights with Indivdiuals Who Have Been in China,” Department of Homeland Security, February 2, 2020.
  23. 23. Gabriella Munoz, “House Democrats Schedule Vote on Bill to Dismantle Trump Travel Ban,” Washington Times, March 7, 2020.
  24. 24. Gregg Re, “After Attacking Trump’s Coronavirus-Related China Travel Ban as Xenophobic, Dems and Media Have Changed Tune,” Fox News, April 1, 2020.
  25. 25. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus,” DonaldJTrump.com, April 13, 2020.
  26. 26. Matthew Choi, “Trump Puts Pence in Charge of Coronavirus Response,” Politico, March 26, 2020.
  27. 27. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  28. 28. Caitlin Emma and Jennifer Scholtes, “House Swiftly Passes Bipartisan $8.3B Coronavirus Package,” Politico, March 4, 2020.
  29. 29. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  30. 30. Erica L. Green, “Rules Eased on Colleges Seeking to Close Their Campuses Amid Outbreak,” New York Times, March 10, 2020.
  31. 31. Jack O’Brien and Mandy Roth, “President Trump Declares National Emergency Due to COVID-19 Outbreak, Includes Hospital Waivers,” Health LeadersMedia.com, March 13, 2020.
  32. 32. Saim Saeed, “Trump’s Europe Travel Ban Explained,” Politico, March 12, 2020; “Delivering on President Trump’s Promise, Secretary DeVos Suspends Federal Student Loan Payments, Waives Interest During National Emergency,” U.S. Department of Education, March 20, 2020, https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/delivering-president-trumps-promise-secretary-devos-suspends-federal-student-loan-payments-waives-interest-during-national-emergency.
  33. 33. Dian Schaffhauser, “Updated: Free Resources for Schools During COVID-19 Outbreak,” TheJournal.com, April 17, 2020.
  34. 34. Dan Mangan, “Trump Issues ‘Coronavirus Guidelines’ for Next 15 Days to Slow Pandemic,” CNBC, March 16, 2020.
  35. 35. Kevin Breuninger and Kevin Williams, “Trump Says Coronavirus Crisis Could Stretch Into August, May Look at Lockdown for ‘Certain Areas,’ ” CNBC, March 16, 2020.
  36. 36. “USDA Announces Feeding Program Partnership in Response to COVID-19,” USDA.gov, March 17, 2020.
  37. 37. Aaron Friedman, Phillip Gillespie, Nancy Schroeder, Timothy Silva, and Wilmer Hale, “Federal Reserve Announces Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility,” JDSupra.com, March 20, 2020.
  38. 38. Ben Lane, “Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD Suspending All Forecolsures and Evictions,” Housing Wire, March 18, 2020.
  39. 39. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  40. 40. Sean Ludwig, “Families First Coronavirus Response Act: What Businesses Need to Know,” U.S. Chamber of Commerce, March 26, 2020.
  41. 41. Laura Kelly and Morgant Chalfant, “State Dept. Urges US Citizens to Avoid All International Travel,” Hill, March 19, 2020.
  42. 42. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  43. 43. “The Arc’s COVID-19 Updates: March 20, 2020,” Arc Massachusetts, March 20, 2020.
  44. 44. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  45. 45. “President Trump Signs into Law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act,” National Law Review, March 29, 2020.
  46. 46. Ronn Blitzer, “Republicans Say Dems Blocking Coronavirus Relief Over ‘Ideological Wish List,’ ” Fox News, March 23, 2020.
  47. 47. Maxim Lott, “Coronavirus Relief Bill Contains Nearly $12 Billion in Questionable Spending,” Fox News, March 27, 2000.
  48. 48. “Trump Announces Social Distancing Guidelines Extended to April 30,” CBS News, March 30, 2020.
  49. 49. Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  50. 50. Ibid.
  51. 51. Press release, “Federal Reserve Takes Additional Actions to Provide Up to $2.3 Trillion in Loans to Support the Economy,” Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, April 9, 2020.
  52. 52. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  53. 53. Brett Samuels, “Trump to Convene Council Focused on Reopening the Country,” Hill, April 10, 2020.
  54. 54. “Timeline: The Trump Administration’s Decisive Actions to Combat the Coronavirus.”
  55. 55. Ben Kennedy, “Restrictions Rolled Back in May? Trump Forms Second Task Force to Focus on US Economic Recovery,” CBN News, April 14, 2020.
  56. 56. Tim Hains, “President Trump Announces Three-Phase Plan to Reopen Economy,” Real Clear Politics, April 16, 2020.
  57. 57. Adam Edlman, Monica Alba, Hans Nichols, and Peter Alexander, “Trump Unveils Three-Phase Plan for States to Reopen Amid Coronavirus Pandemic,” NBC News, April 16, 2020.
  58. 58. “Guidelines: Opening Up America Again,” WhiteHouse.gov, https://www.whitehouse.gov/openingamerica/.
  59. 59. Ibid.
  60. 60. Greg Norman, “New York Gov. Cuomo to Protestors Wanting Economy Reopened: ‘Get a Job as an Essential Worker,’ ” Fox News, April 23, 2020.
  61. 61. Jennifer Harper, “Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls for National Work Boycott,” Washington Times, April 22, 2020.
  62. 62. Emma Colton, “ ‘You Should Be Ashamed’: Critics Unleash on Pelosi for Showing Off Freezer Loaded with Ice Cream,” Washington Examiner, April 16, 2020.
  63. 63. Gail Collins, “Let’s Call it Trumpvirus,” New York Times, February 26, 2020.
  64. 64. Maureen Dowd, “Trump Makes Us Ill,” New York Times, February 29, 2020.
  65. 65. “Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens Declares Coronavirus is Trump’s ‘Chernobyl,’ ” Fox News, March 11, 2020.
  66. 66. Francoise Mouly, “Brian Stauffer’s ‘Under Control,’ ” NewYorker.com, February 27, 2020. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2020-03-09.
  67. 67. Andrew Mark Miller, “MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: Trump getting hurt politically is ‘silver lining’ to coronavirus pandemic,” Washington Examiner, April 24, 2020.
  68. 68. https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1243297913863835648?s=20
  69. 69. Rich Noyes, “STUDY: Washington Post Bashes Trump Virus Response with 25-to-1 Negative Headlines,” MRCNewsbusters, April 25, 2020.
  70. 70. David Lynch, “The Coronavirus crisis is exposing how the economy was not as strong as it seemed,” Washington Post, March 28, 2020.
  71. 71. Peter Nicholas, “The Coronavirus Outbreak Could Bring Out the Worst in Trump,” Atlantic, February 18, 2020.
  72. 72. Catherine E. Shoichet, “The US coronavirus travel ban could backfire. Here’s how,” CNN, February 7, 2020.
  73. 73. Silvia Amaro, “Trump’s travel ban on many European countries is ‘politically motivated,’ analysts say,” CNBC, March 13, 2020.
  74. 74. Adam Gabbatt, “Republicans Face Backlash Over Racist Labeling of Coronavirus,” Guardian, March 10, 2020.
  75. 75. Brandon Tensley, “Coronavirus Task Force Another Example of Trump Administration’s Lack ofDiversity,” CNN, January 30, 2020.
  76. 76. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, “MSNBC Journalists Say Calling Coronavirus the ‘Wuhan Virus’ is ‘Racist,’ ” Fox News, March 10, 2020.
  77. 77. Tristan Justice, “CNN: It’s Racist to Say the Wuhan Virus Started in China,” Federalist, March 12, 2020.
  78. 78. David Rutz, “Media Balk at Trump Calling Wuhan Virus ‘Foreign,’ ” Washington Free Beacon, March 12, 2020.
  79. 79. https://twitter.com/chuckrossdc/status/1233835255230029831?s=21
  80. 80. “Olivia Nuzzi Asks Trump If a President Deserves to Be Re-Elected after Losing More Americans in Week,” Brief News YouTube channel, April 27, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ffvwP8fKs.
  81. 81. https://twitter.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1254904577981394949?s=20
  82. 82. “Dr. Fauci lashes out at media in White House press briefing,” Fox News YouTube channel, April 13, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUFgxduAHaM.
  83. 83. Madison Dibble, “ ‘Propaganda session’: CNN mocks ‘angry’ Trump press conference with critical chyrons,” Washington Examiner, April 13, 2020.
  84. 84. Noah Weiland and Maggie Haberman, “For Dr. Deborah Birx, Urging Calm Has Come With Heavy Criticism,” New York Times, March 27, 2020.
  85. 85. https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1243927133594030088
  86. 86. https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1243556939369496576
  87. 87. https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1243561420853297161
  88. 88. Peter Wade, “Dr. Birx More ‘Bothered’ by Media Than Trump for Injecting Disinfectant Comments,” Rolling Stone, April 26, 2020.
  89. 89. Jack Goldsmith and Andrew Keane Woods, “Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal,” Atlantic, April 25, 2020.
  90. 90. https://twitter.com/HeidiNBC/status/1242241046815354881
  91. 91. https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1246586099981574151
  92. 92. Alana Goodman, “Man Who Died Ingesting Fish Tank Cleaner Remembered as Intelligent, Levelheaded Engineer,” Washington Free Beacon, April 24, 2020.
  93. 93. Alana Goodman, “Police Investigating Death of Arizona Man From Chloroquine Phosphate,” April 28, 2020, Washington Free Beacon, April 28, 2020.
  94. 94. Kara Swisher, “Fox’s Fake News Contagion,” New York Times, March 31, 2020.

CONCLUSION

  1. 1. Susan Ferrechio, “Pelosi: Time to Consider Providing ‘Guaranteed Income,’ ” Washington Examiner, April 27, 2020.
  2. 2. Emily Jacobs, “Joe Biden Says He’s a ‘Candidate for US Senate’ in Latest Gaffe,” New York Post, February 25, 2020.