0. A boulevard in a Bronx neighborhood once known for its middle-class, striving nature.

0. Referring to the infamous registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

0. Ventura, retired from competition, was a commentator.

0. It was $12.6 million.

0. Johnson declined to comment.

0. Dowd started his own agency and did public relations work for Trump from 2004 through 2010. Dowd passed away on September 18, 2016. The Fairfield County Connecticut Medical Examiner lists the cause as “acute intoxication due to the combined effects of ethanol and oxycodone.” His quotes are from a 2016 PBS Frontline interview conducted by producer Jim Gilmore.

0. Jay Bienstock did not reply to multiple interview requests.

0. It wasn’t. But it got 20.2 million viewers on its initial airing, one of the highest. The season finale had 27 million.

0. After The Apprentice, Jarvis found success in TV journalism, first at CNBC, then at ABC.

0. McIver became known later as the Trump Organization staffer who penned the speech Melania Trump gave at the 2016 Republican Convention that appeared to be cribbed from Michelle Obama’s 2008 Democratic Convention speech.

0. According to our research, neither Jack Welch nor Jeff Immelt attended or was invited to the wedding. But Dietl’s point that the big day excited many people, present and not, is taken.

0. This is the night Playboy model Karen McDougal says she met Trump, sparking a 10-month affair she would chronicle in a 60 Minutes interview in March 2018.

0. Lefebvre, married to the prominent chef Ludo Lefebvre, was not fired then. She was one of the final six candidates, fired in the episode prior to the finale for putting the wrong phone number in a promotional brochure. She would later appear nude in the June 2007 issue of Playboy. According to the Associated Press, she posed to raise awareness of cervical cancer, of which she is a survivor. (Associated Press, “Fired ‘Apprentice’ Contestant in Playboy,” Hollywood Reporter, April, 21, 2007.)

0. Jay Bienstock did not reply to numerous requests for comment.

0. For Mark Burnett Productions to pay all 18 candidates $1,500 per episode was about $245,000 total. MBP in 50-50 partnership with Trump was still collecting about $2 million per episode for product integrations, revenue not shared with NBC. Meanwhile, a single 30-second ad on the NBC broadcast of The Apprentice in 2006 went for $168,000. (Claire Atkinson, “The Ad Age 06–07 Network Price Chart,” Ad Age, 2006.)

0. It wasn’t. The highest-rated episode was when Michael J. Fox, having announced his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis, made his departure from the series in 2000.

0. Conner was actually 21. Her birthday was December 18, the day before the press conference with Trump.

0. A later paperback version lost the “Ass”: Think Big: Make It Happen in Business and Life.

0. Political consultant Rex Elsass has advised Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich.

0. Kristin Davis was known as the “Manhattan Madam” because she ran a high-end prostitution ring and claimed to provide escorts for Eliot Spitzer and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Spitzer denied he was in contact with Davis.

0. Stone had filed paperwork with the IRS to form a political group to attack Hillary Clinton. Its name was to be Citizens United Not Timid—C.U.N.T. This led Bossie, who led the influential political group Citizens United, to bring a trademark infringement case. Stone changed the name to Citizens Uniformly Not Timid.

0. Both “true” assertions are false.

0. Ventura’s outspoken views earned him a reality TV series, Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura, which ran on TruTV from 2009 to 2012.

0. Jared Kushner declined to comment on the record.

0. Hall, likely operating under a confidentiality agreement, declined interview requests.

0. Breitbart Embassy is a town house in Washington, DC, where Breitbart News is headquartered and where Steve Bannon reportedly sometimes lives.

0. Obama said, “Under Governor Romney’s definition, there are a whole bunch of millionaires and billionaires who are small businesses. Donald Trump is a small business and I know Donald Trump doesn’t like to think of himself as small anything.”

0. It was at 8:53 p.m.: “Thanks @SherriEShepherd 4 your nice comments today on The View. U were terrific!”

0. The Shooters Committee on Political Education is a not-for-profit group dedicated to preserving Second Amendment rights.

0. State assemblyman Bill Nojay shot himself to death in a Rochester, New York, cemetery near a family plot on September 9, 2016. Known for advocating fiscal restraint, he was due to surrender later that day to the FBI to face fraud charges related to a trust fund he had handled. He had been implicated in a series of other schemes, including one in Cambodia related to a rice exporting company that never opened.

0. Rubio was part of a bipartisan group of six senators who failed to pass immigration reform in Congress.

0. Trump finished eighth. When we asked Nunberg about this incident, he addressed Trump’s expectations about the straw poll but ignored the issue of sobriety.

0. After Nunberg made a series of infamously loquacious cable TV appearances in March 2018, rambling about the Mueller investigation, he told WABC radio, “I’ll listen to people, and see if there’s proper programs. That’s fine. I’m not a 24-hour-a-day alcoholic.” (Election Central with Rita Cosby, aired March 8, 2018, on WABC-AM.)

0. Sarah Root was killed in a January 2016 car crash by a street-racing drunk driver who was an illegal immigrant and had skipped bail.

0. McConney stayed with the Trump Organization until 2017.

0. Nunberg would be fired from the Trump campaign for the final time 47 days after the escalator announcement, on August 2, 2015, amid allegations he’d left racist Facebook posts dating back to 2007, including one calling Barack Obama a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser” and another that used the N-word in reference to Reverend Al Sharpton’s daughter. Nunberg denied he wrote the posts, but he was out. Lewandowski explained the firing to CNN: “They do not reflect Mr. Trump’s position.”