Notes
PREFACE
1. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/22/republicans-nadler-cover-up-accusation-102180.
3. https://news.gallup.com/poll/284156/trump-job-approval-personal-best.aspx.
CHAPTER 1
1. https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/us/the-2000-campaign-the-ad-campaign-emotional-appeal-urges-blacks-to-vote.html; https://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2005/01/07/dont-let-democrats-get-away-with-race-baiting-n1404714.
2. https://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1008/McCain_will_be_accused_of_racism_regardless.html; https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/404543-medias-praise-for-mccain-is-warranted-but-where-was-it-in-08.
4. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/us/politics/from-democrats-election-focus-on-racial-scars.html.
5. https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/new-shame-cities-frontpagemagcom/.
6. Donald Trump, “Full Transcript: Donald Trump Speaks in https://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-michigan-speech-transcript-227221.
7. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2016/08/19/trump-chairman-resigns-ahead-mid-michigan-rally/88996014/.
8. Juan Williams, What the Hell Do You Have to Lose?, PublicAffairs, 2018.
9. Ibid.
CHAPTER 2
12. David Horowitz and Richard Poe, The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, Thomas Nelson, 2006; David Horowitz and John Perazzo, Occupy Wall Street: The Communist Movement Reborn, The David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2012.
13. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/democrats-soros-trump-231313.
14. https://indivisible.org/guide.
16. https://news.gallup.com/poll/121391/obama-honeymoon-continues-months-recent-average.aspx.
17. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2017/06/27/trump_needed_a_honeymoon_134299.html.
18. https://prospect.org/article/2017-year-reaction-and-resistance.
20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd3fynanB5E.
CHAPTER 3
21. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/21/media-war-trump-destined-fail; https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/rachel-maddow-the-lefts-powerhouse-on-cable-doubles-down-on-the-collusion-angle/2019/03/26/bd8701d0-4f36-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html.
22. Donald J. Trump and David Shiflett, The America We Deserve, Renaissance Books, 2000.
24. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/27/trump-lashes-out-rep-elijah-cummings-baltimore-district/1845890001/. (Note that Trump appears as the aggressor in this typical headline, when in fact the aggressor was Cummings.)
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
31. https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/07/30/nolte-chris-matthews-compares-jews-to-rats/.
35. clark.com/health-health-care/worst-cities-in-america-for-rats/.
36. J. C. Perazzo, The New Shame of the Cities, The David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2014..
37. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274453/shame-baltimore-frontpagemagcom.
38. https://www.biggestuscities.com/city/baltimore-maryland; https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2019/10/25/baltimore-ranks-top-4-for-most-dangerous-cities-in-america/.
40. https://www.facebook.com/don.feder.9.
41. https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/baltimore-city-gets-billions-in-federal-aid-annually; https://www.newsweek.com/cummings-trump-baltimore-immigration-tlaib-1451411.
42. Twitter, 1:18 PM, July 28, 2019.
CHAPTER 4
43. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-inaugural-address/.
47. Donald Trump, The America We Deserve, Renaissance Books, 2000.
50. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
55. https://www.spiked-online.com/2017/12/01/an-immigrants-american-dream/.
56. Jason D. Hill, We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People, Bombardier Books, 2018.
CHAPTER 5
58. Michelle Malkin, Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction, Regnery Publishing, 2019.
59. Michelle Malkin, op. cit.
60. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpGs5bATYbU.
61. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak.
62. David Horowitz, Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left, Regnery Publishing, 2004.
63. https://www.aclu.org/other/draft-resolution.
64. Ibid. Police departments are to “refrain, whether acting alone or with federal or state law enforcement officers, from collecting or maintaining information about the political, religious or social views, associations or activities of any individual, group, association, organization, corporation, business or partnership unless such information directly relates to an investigation of criminal activities, and there are reasonable grounds to suspect the subject of the information is or may be involved in criminal conduct.”
65. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-brown-california-sanctuary-state-bill-20171005-story.html.
66. https://www.fairus.org/press-releases/new-fair-study-illegal-immigration-costs-116-billion-annually; https://www.businessinsider.com/california-budget-health-insurance-for-undocumented-residents-2019-6.
67. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1144419410729242625.
68. https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116.
69. Ibid.
70. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_El_Paso_shooting.
75. https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/03/politics/beto-orourke-el-paso-donald-trump-racist-violence/index.html; https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/456078-orourke-trump-is-a-racist-responsible-for-el-paso-shooting.
77. https://www.rev.com/blog/donald-trump-statement-on-mass-shootings-full-transcript-of-remarks.
78. Ibid.
79. Ibid.
80. https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nyt-front-page-trump-white-supremacy-1452724.
81. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/06/new-york-times-headline-trump-backlash/.
CHAPTER 6
84. https://nypost.com/2001/01/23/nadler-behind-lethal-heist-pardon/.
86. Andrew McCarthy, Ball of Collusion, Encounter Books, 2019; Greg Jarrett, The Russia Hoax, Broadside Books, 2019.
88. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/09/trump_mueller_in_love_with_comey.html.
89. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9gmDUPdprs; at about the 5:30 mark, Congressman (and 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful) Eric Swalwell asserts without evidence that Trump is a “Russian agent” who is “working on behalf of the Russians.” Examples of the daily barrage of similar baseless accusations are endless.
91. https://www.businessinsider.com/evidence-in-mueller-probe-in-the-thousands-if-not-millions-2019-3.
93. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/16/house-democrats-intel-impeachment-1463467.
94. https://www.businessinsider.com/25th-amendment-how-can-you-remove-president-from-office-2017-3.
96. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/al-green-impeachment-resolution-text/index.html.
97. https://www.foxnews.com/media/al-green-trump-impeachment-public-turn-on-democrats.
98. David Horowitz and Ben Johnson, Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror, Before and After 9/11, Richard Vigilante Books, 2008.
99. https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/kerry_on_iraq_wrong_war_wrong_place_wrong_time/.
100. https://freebeacon.com/politics/swalwell-trump-russian-agent-working-behalf-russians/.
CHAPTER 7
101. For a transcript of the meeting see here: https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/08/16/nolte-new-york-times-admits-we-built-our-newsroom-around-russia-collusion-hoax/.
102. http://totalconservative.com/trump-slams-ny-times-for-embarking-on-racism-witch-hunt/.
103. Breitbart, op. cit.
104. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/trump-america-first/514037/; https://www.npr.org/tags/126220956/america-first.
106. https://amgreatness.com/2019/08/16/the-mountebank-left-is-banking-on-you/.
107. http://www.startribune.com/the-new-york-times-1619-project-revisited/565907662/.
108. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html.
109. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Etymology_and_naming.
110. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african-american-odyssey/free-blacks-in-the-antebellum-period.html.
112. https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-look-at-african-american-history-through-the-numbers-11550232000.
115. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/07/18/donald-trump-racist-rally-227408.
118. https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111federalist.html.
119. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-town-hall-electoral-college.html.
121. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273950/future-you-dont-want-david-horowitz.
CHAPTER 8
124. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/rashida-tlaib/.
126. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/ilhan-omar/.
127. Ibid.
129. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-2.xls; https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls.
130. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilhan_Omar#Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict.
134. https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/12/ocasio-cortez-ilhan-omar-front-page-9-11-progressive-women-color/.
135. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/07/16/dem_rep_tlaib_to_pelosi_acknowledge_the_fact_that_we_are_women_of_color.html; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmrfiDbQvbk.
138. https://twitter.com/aipac/status/1149323328471085057?lang=en.
140. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/19/omar-tlaib-denounce-israel-restrictions-1468985.
141. Ibid.
142. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/253558.
143. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/trump-assumes-disloyalty-jews/596533/.
144. https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/289871/democratic-party-becoming-unsalvageable.
145. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1153315875476463616.
CHAPTER 9
146. David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future, Crown Forum, 2012.
151. https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address; https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/aoc-just-updated-her-massive-green-new-deal--heres-whats-in-it.html.
152. https://www.heritage.org/environment/commentary/the-green-new-deal-would-cost-trillions-and-make-not-dimes-worth-difference; https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/01/08/ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-not-global-warming/2501171002/.
154. https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-broad-1347079.
155. https://www.atr.org/here-s-every-democrat-who-supports-ocasio-cortez-s-crazy-green-new-deal.
156. https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1170070887887986690?lang=en.
157. C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, Eerdmans, 1970.
158. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/8/cory-booker-embracing-green-new-deal-is-bold-like-/.
CHAPTER 10
160. David Horowitz, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America, Humanix Books, 2019.
162. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equality_Act_(United_States)#Support.
164. https://www.heritage.org/gender/heritage-explains/the-equality-act.
165. Ibid.
166. Ibid.
167. https://abcnews.go.com/US/baker-won-supreme-court-case-maintains-cake-couple/story?id=55660012.
168. http://www.adfmedia.org/files/MasterpieceHearingTranscript.pdf.
169. https://abcnews.go.com/US/baker-won-supreme-court-case-maintains-cake-couple/story?id=55660012.
170. https://www.hrc.org/timelines/trump.
172. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/17/donald-trump-praises-pete-buttigieg-campaigning-wi/.
173. Ibid.
CHAPTER 11
174. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome.
176. Michiko Kakutani, The Death of Truth: Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump, Crown, 2018.
177. Ibid.
178. Ibid.
179. Ibid.
180. Ibid.
181. Ibid.
182. Ibid.
183. Ibid.
184. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/rulings/promise-kept/.
186. https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/trump-clarification-syndrome.
187. David Horowitz and Ben Johnson, Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America’s War on Terror Before and After 9/11, Richard Vigilante Books, 2008.
188. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzlxrPC_E_U; online video transcribed by the author.
189. https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/.
190. https://thehill.com/media/458645-cnns-chris-cuomo-trumps-mouth-is-a-threat-to-this-country.
192. https://www.heritage.org/immigration/commentary/daca-unconstitutional-obama-admitted.
193. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/al-qaeda-wasnt-on-the-run.
CHAPTER 12
202. https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/30/intel-ig-admits-it-secretly-erased-first-hand-information-requirement-in-august/; https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/07/intel-community-ig-stonewalling-congress-on-backdated-whistleblower-rule-changes/.
206. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/schiffs-parody-and-trumps-response/ar-AAI7Qtl.
208. https://www.docdroid.net/gt8IXKy/pac-letter-10-08-2019.pdf.
209. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/11/06/trump-louisiana-rally-067209.
211. Ibid.
212. Ibid.
213. https://taibbi.substack.com/p/were-in-a-permanent-coup.
CHAPTER 13
215. https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/pdf_2019_06/20190625_PR2019-069-EN.pdf.
216. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/mar/25/obama-war-terror-overseas-contingency-operations.
219. https://heavy.com/news/2019/10/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi/.
220. https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/10/29/biden-isis-leader-killed-in-spite-of-trumps-actions/.
221. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/5/current-time-broadcasts-into-russia-eastern-europe/.
222. https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-crackdown-on-rights-abusers-in-russia/.
224. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39487617.
225. https://www.rferl.org/a/un-us-leaves-unesco-anti-israel-bias/28789963.html.
226. https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-state-department-withholds-additional-45-million-from-unrwa/.
227. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-will-cut-millions-in-funding-to-u-n-palestinian-agency-1535739845.
228. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-cut-over-200-million-in-palestinian-aid-1535145774.
232. https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2019/11/legality-jewish-settlements-judea-and-samaria-joseph-puder/.
233. https://nypost.com/2018/05/23/trump-lambastes-ms-13-refers-to-them-as-animals-again/.
235. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-travel-ban-30000-people-blocked-muslim-state-department.
236. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-parade-1995/.
240. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/281936-obama-to-trump-what-magic-wand-do-you-have.
241. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/07/10/in-trumps-first-30-months-manufacturing-up-by-314000-jobs-over-obama-what-states-are-hot/#4411d1712677; https://www.marketwatch.com/story/manufacturing-employment-in-the-us-is-at-the-same-level-of-69-years-ago-2019-01-04.
242. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/climate/trump-paris-agreement-climate.html; https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/China,_India,_and_the_Paris_Climate_Agreement.
244. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/climate/trump-offshore-drilling.html; https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trumps-list-289-accomplishments-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping.
245. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/281936-obama-to-trump-what-magic-wand-do-you-have.
246. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/11/minorities-ages-25-to-54-make-up-most-new-hires-in-workforce.html; https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2019/demo/p60-266.html.
249. https://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-middle-class-economic-progress-11569786435.
250. David Horowitz, Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America, Humanix Books, 2019.
252. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/donald-trump-nra.
254. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/deroy-murdock-media-trump-outreach-minorities.
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256. Donald Trump, The America We Deserve, Renaissance Books, 2000.
257. Ibid.
259. https://www.conservapedia.com/Long_march_through_the_institutions.
260. David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin, The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future, Crown Forum, 2012; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_long_march_through_the_institutions; for the Soros organized and funded power base of the open borders left, see Michelle Malkin, Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction, Regnery Publishing, 2019.
263. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/.
265. https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1137804.
268. https://twitter.com/rashidatlaib/status/1170423606087692289?lang=en.
269. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rubycramer/elizabeth-warren-debate-2020-primary; https://reason.com/2019/08/12/warren-wants-big-structural-change-that-goes-beyond-anything-previous-democratic-administrations-have-proposed/.