Chapter One: The Trumps in America
1. Gwenda Blair, Donald Trump: The Candidate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), x.
2. Ibid., 4.
3. Ibid., 14.
4. Michael Kranish and Marc Fisher, Trump Revealed (New York: Scribner, 2016), 83.
5. Frequently quoted and confirmed personally to the author by Donald Trump.
6. Donald Trump, Time to Get Tough (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 8.
7. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 91.
8. Blair, Donald Trump: The Candidate, 93.
9. John R. O’Donnell with James Rutherford, Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 73–74.
10. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 137.
11. Ibid., 137 et seq.
12. Blair, Donald Trump: The Candidate.
13. Ibid., 139.
Chapter Two: Donald Trump’s Financial Crisis and Recovery
1. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 143.
2. Ibid., 182.
3. Ibid., 165.
4. Ibid., 192.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., 197.
Chapter Three: Politics Beckons
1. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 285.
2. Ibid., 272.
3. Ibid., 286.
4. Ibid., 218.
5. 230 Ibid., 215.
6. Ibid.
Chapter Four: Rebranding for Profit and Elections
1. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 225.
2. Ibid., 226.
3. Ibid., 237.
4. A typical example of Donald Trump’s loyalty to friends was in February 2018, when the veteran vocalist Vic Damone, a neighbor in Palm Beach, was dying. On learning of this from a message from another neighbor though he was overseas, the president telephoned Damone directly in his hospital room, just ten minutes later and greatly cheered the singer’s last days.
Chapter Five: Preparing to Seek the Grand Prize
1. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 289.
2. Ibid., 290.
3. Ibid., 309.
4. Ibid., 312.
Chapter Seven: The Republican Nominee
1. Kranish and Fisher, Trump Revealed, 289.
2. Ibid., 338–39.
3. Ibid., 345.
4. David E. Sanger and Maggie Haberman, “50 G.O.P Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk,’” New York Times, August 8, 2016.
5. Sanger and Haberman, “50 G.O.P. Officals.”
Chapter Eight: Race to the Wire
1. Nick Corasaniti and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump Suggests ‘Second Amendment People’ Could Act Against Hillary Clinton,” New York Times, August 9, 2016.
2. Angie Drobnic Holan and Linda Qiu, “2015 Lie of the Year: The Campaign Misstatements of Donald Trump,” PolitiFact, December 21, 2015.
3. Though posthumous and unsought, the universal triumph of the Hitler brand for brutal authoritarianism, has been remarkable, due to the constant invocation of him by the Left against any opponent politically to the right of Che Guevara.
4. Ben Wolfgang, Washington Times, August 8, 2016.
5. Lisa Lerer and Julie Price, Associated Press, August 20, 2016.
Chapter Nine: President-Elect
1. Hillary Clinton, What Happened (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017), 90.
2. Included in this group were Martin Sheen, Debra Messing, James Cromwell, B. D. Wong, Noah Wyle, Freda Payne, Bob Odenkirk, J. Smith-Cameron, Michael Urie, Moby, Mike Farrell, Richard Schiff, Christine Lahti, Steven Pasquale, Dominique Fumusa, Emily Tyra, Tanya Balsam.
Chapter Ten: President at Last
1. Clinton, What Happened, 11.
2. CNN, “Trump: Frederick Douglass ‘Is Being Recognized More and More,’” February 2, 2017.
Chapter Eleven: A Honeymoon of Hand-to-Hand Combat
1. Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Twitter, March 12, 2017, https://twitter.com.realdonaldtrump/status/863007411132649473?lang=en.
2. Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Twitter, June 22, 2017, https://twitter.com.realdonaldtrump/status/877932956458795008?lang=en.
3. James Freeman, “Trump, Pershing and Persuasion,” Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-pershing-and-persuasion-1503091778.
4. Mueller also unsealed a guilty plea from George Papadopoulos, involving trivial offenses.
Chapter Twelve: Gaining the Upper Hand
1. Clinton Campaign-DNC Paid for Research That Led to the Russia Dossier,” Washington Post, October 24, 2017; Erin Burnett and David Chalian, Out Front with Erin Burnett, October 24, 2017.
2. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the confession of Stephen Dedalus in all editions.
3. In mid-December, the Saudi crown prince bought a portrait of Jesus Christ by Leonardo da Vinci for $450 million, the highest price ever paid for a work of art. The symbolism may be interesting.