14 Daniel Takash, “FDA Cracks Down on Dietary Supplements,” The Hill, September 1, 2015, http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/252327-fda-cracks-down-on-dietary-supplements.
15 “Industry Profile: Summary, 2016,” OpenSecrets.Org, https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=h04.
16 “Trump Gets Down to Business on 60 Minutes,” CBS News, September 27, 2015, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/.
17 “Fiscal Year 2016 Budget of the U.S. Government,” The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2016/assets/budget.pdf.
18 “Federal Receipt and Outlay Summary,” Tax Policy Center, http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/federal-receipt-and-outlay-summary.
19 Paul Bedard, “Boom: Trump Eyes 10% Spending Cuts, 20% Slash of Federal Workers,” Washington Examiner, January 17, 2017, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/boom-trump-eyes-10-spending-cuts-20-slash-of-federal-workers/article/2612037.
20 “Fiscal Year 2016 Budget of the U.S. Government,” The White House, https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2016/assets/budget.pdf.
21 Kristina Wong, “National Security Experts Sound Alarm on Long-Term Debt,” The Hill, May 10, 2016, http://thehill.com/policy/defense/279320-prominent-group-says-long-term-debt-the-single-greatest-threat-to-us-national.
22 Larry Light, “Federal Watchdog: U.S. Government Spending ‘Unsustainable,’” CBS News, January 17, 2017, http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gao-federal-spending-revenue-unsustainable/.
23 “Life Expectancy in the USA, 1900–98,” University of California, Berkeley, http://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html.
24 “Life Expectancy,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm.
25 “The Number of Workers per Medicare Beneficiary Is Falling,” Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/multimedia/infographic/2012/05/medicare-at-risk/the-number-of-workers-per-medicare-beneficiary-is-falling.
26 “Cost Sharing Out of Pocket Costs,” Medicaid.gov, https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/cost-sharing/out-of-pocket-costs/index.html.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE WAR FOR OUR BORDERS
1 Laura Jarrett and Gloria Borger, “Obama Commutes Sentence of Chelsea Manning,” CNN, January 18, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/17/politics/chelsea-manning-sentence-commuted/.
2 Andy Eckardt, Alastair Jamieson, and Carlo Angerer, “Berlin Truck Attack: Christmas Market Suspect Released Due to Insufficient Evidence,” NBC News, December 20, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/berlin-truck-attack/berlin-truck-attack-pakistan-migrant-christmas-market-suspect-n698131.
3 Claudio Lavanga, F. Brinley Bruton, and Eoghan MacGuire, “Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Anis Amri Shot Dead in Milan: Officials,” NBC News, December 23, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/berlin-truck-attack/berlin-truck-attack-suspect-anis-amri-shot-dead-milan-officials-n699431.
4 “Berlin Truck Killer Amri ‘Had 14 Identities’ in Germany,” BBC News, January 5, 2017, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38516691.
5 Claudio Lavanga, F. Brinley Bruton, and Eoghan MacGuire, “Berlin Truck Attack Suspect Anis Amri Shot Dead in Milan: Officials,” NBC News, December 23, 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/berlin-truck-attack/berlin-truck-attack-suspect-anis-amri-shot-dead-milan-officials-n699431.
6 “Assassin’s Motive? Listen to His Words,” Michael Savage Newsletter, December 20, 2016, http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/2016/12/michael-savage-newsletter-assassins-motive-listen-to-his-words/.
7 Daniel Sarlo, “The Economics of Mass Deportation in the Neo-Assyrian Empire under Tiglath-Pileser III,” Academia, April 26, 2013, http://www.academia.edu/3463490/The_Economics_of_Mass_Deportation_in_the_Neo-Assyrian_Empire_under_Tiglath-Pileser_III.
8 “Trump Supporters Chant ‘Build a Wall’ from Crowd,” video, Howard University, WHUR-FM, July 22, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9Vri5ECMps.
9 “Trump Repeats Vow to Build Border Wall, but Admits ‘There Could Be Some Fencing,’” Fox News Politics, November 14, 2016, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/11/14/trump-repeats-vow-to-build-border-wall-but-admits-there-could-be-some-fencing.html.
10 “House Republicans Test Trump On his U.S.-Mexico Wall,” Reuters, November 10, 2016, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-wall-idUSKBN135175.
11 Donald Trump. “Read Donald Trump’s Remarks at Carrier Plant in Indiana,” Time, December 1, 2016, http://time.com/4588349/donald-trump-carrier-jobs-speech/.
12 Julia Edwards Ainsley. “Exclusive: Trump Team Seeks Agency Records on Border Barriers, Surveillance,” Reuters, January 4, 2017, http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-border-trump-exclusive-idUSKBN14N0TY?il=0.
13 Manu Raju, Deirdre Walsh, and David Wright, “Trump Asking Congress, Not Mexico, to Pay for Border Wall,” CNN, January 6, 2017. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/border-wall-house-republicans-donald-trump-taxpayers/.
14 Ibid.
15 Office of the United States Trade Representative, https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/americas/mexico.
16 Brian Bennett and Noah Bierman, “Congress Begins to Search for Funds to Help Trump Build Border Wall,” Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2017, http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-border-wall-20170106-story.html.
17 Debra Heine, “Trump Poised to Build Wall and Undo Obama’s Executive Actions on Immigration,” PJ Media, January 3, 2017, https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/03/trump-poised-to-build-wall-and-undo-obamas-executive-actions-on-immigration/.
18 Paul Bedard, “ICE Releases 19,723 Criminal Illegals, 208 Convicted of Murder, 900 of Sex Crimes,” Washington Examiner, April 28, 2016, http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ice-releases-19723-criminal-illegals-208-convicted-of-murder-900-of-sex-crimes/article/2589785.
19 Warner Todd Huston, “Drunken Illegal Migrant Arrested for Fatal Hit-and-Run in Omaha,” Breitbart News, April 19, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/04/19/drunken-illegal-migrant-arrested-fatal-hit-run-omaha/.
20 Katie McHugh, “Mexican Illegal Alien Deported Eight Times Charged After Fatal Hit-and-Run,” Breitbart News, December 11, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/11/mexican-illegal-alien-deported-eight-times-charged-fatal-hit-run/.
21 Matt Kelley, “Illegal Immigration Under Microscope as Mother Testifies of Omaha Crash That Killed Her Daughter (AUDIO),” Nebraska Radio Network, April 19, 2016, http://nebraskaradionetwork.com/2016/04/19/mother-testifies-about-omaha-crash-that-claimed-her-only-daughter-audio/.
22 Ibid.
23 Michael Patrick Leahy, “1,565 Refugees Diagnosed with Active TB Since 2012, Three Times More Than Previously Reported,” Breitbart News, January 2, 2017. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/02/1565-refugees-diagnosed-active-tb-2012-three-times-more-reported/.
24 Michael Patrick Leahy. “Six Diseases Return to US as Migration Advocates Celebrate ‘World Refugee Day,’” Breitbart News, June 16, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/19/diseases-thought-eradicated-world-refugee-day/.
25 Ibid.
26 “Donald Trump Interview with Michael Savage on The Savage Nation—7/14/16,” The Savage Nation podcast, July 14, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v= KpKBbxySg4A.
27 “Latent Tuberculosis Infection: A Guide for Primary Health Care Providers. Appendix B. Identifying Persons From High-Risk Countries,” CDC website, https://www.cdc.gov/tb/publications/ltbi/appendixb.htm.
28 “High Burden Countries,” Stop TB Partnership, http://www.stoptb.org/countries/tbdata.asp.
29 Ruairi Arrieta-Kenna, “Sanctuary Cities Stand Firm Against Trump,” Politico, December 12, 2016, http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/sanctuary-cities-trump-immigration-232449.
30 Ibid.
31 Bill Ruthhart, “How Emanuel Worked to Maximize His Meeting with Trump,” Chicago Tribune, December 7, 2016, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-mayor-rahm-emanuel-donald-trump-meeting-20161207-story.html.
/> 32 J. J. Gallagher and Emily Shapiro. “Chicago’s ‘Out of Control’ Violence Produces 762 Homicides in 2016,” ABC News, January 3, 2017, http://abcnews.go.com/US/chicagos-control-violence-produces-762-homicides-2016/story?id=44402951.
CHAPTER FIVE: TRUMP’S CULTURE WARS
1 Karen Braun, “Stop CC in MI Respectfully Request President-elect Trump to ‘Drain the Swamp’ and Pull the Plug on Betsy DeVos,” Stop Common Core in Michigan, November 28, 2016, http://stopcommoncoreinmichigan.com/2016/11/stop-cc-mi-respectfully-request-president-elect-trump-drain-swamp-pull-plug-betsy-devos/.
2 Jeremy Diamond and Jim Acosta, “Many of You Are Asking About Common Core. To Clarify, I Am Not a Supporter—Period,” Fox 13 Salt Lake City, November 23, 2016, http://fox13now.com/2016/11/23/betsy-devos-clarifies-stance-on-common-core-after-being-picked-for-trumps-education-secretary/.
3 Betsy DeVos official website, http://betsydevos.com/qa/.
4 Chris Edwards, “Department of Education: Timeline of Growth,” Downsizing the Federal Government, https://www.downsizinggovernment.org/education/timeline-growth#_edn17.
5 Dana Goldstein, “How Trump Could Gut Public Education,” Slate, November 23, 2016, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2016/11/how_trump_and_education_secretary_betsy_devos_could_gut_public_education.html.
6 Jeremy Diamond and Jim Acosta, “Betsy DeVos Picked for Trump’s Education Secretary,” CNN Politics, November 24, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/23/politics/betsy-devos-picked-for-education-secretary/.
7 Emily Shapiro, “Injured Professor Says Won’t Judge OSU Attacker: ‘I’m Going Home… He’s Dead,’” ABC News, November 29, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/US/injured-ohio-state-professor-withholding-judgment-student-attacker/story?id=43850613.
8 Ibid.
9 Virginia Kruta, “Police Release Facebook Rant Posted by Abdul Artan Before OSU Attack—and It May Reveal His Motive,” Independent Journal Review, November 29, 2016, http://ijr.com/2016/11/745287-make-peace-with-daesh/.
10 Debra Heine, “OSU Diversity Officer Urges Compassion for Somali Terrorist Who Attacked Students,” PJ Media, November 29, 2016, https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/11/29/osu-diversity-officer-urges-compassion-for-somali-terrorist-who-attacked-students/.
11 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/803921522784092160.
12 Deroy Murdock, “Secret Service Agents: Hillary Is a Nightmare to Work With,” New York Post, October 2, 2015, http://nypost.com/2015/10/02/secret-service-agents-hillary-is-a-nightmare-to-work-with/.
13 Speech, Dayton, Ohio, March 12, 2016, Donald Trump Talks About Security Scare in Dayton, Praises Secret Service, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLfxrPnfR_8.
14 Travis M. Andrews, “Video Shows Group Viciously Beating Man in Chicago, Yelling, ‘You Voted Trump’ and ‘Don’t Vote Trump,’” Washington Post, November 11, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/11/video-shows-group-beating-man-in-chicago-yelling-you-voted-trump-and-dont-vote-trump/?utm_term=.aacd74424a32.
15 Susan Jones, “Obama: ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding,’” CNS News, February 19, 2015, http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/obama-islam-has-been-woven-fabric-our-country-its-founding.
16 Cheryl K. Chumley, “Obama Outrages by Calling 4 Jewish Victims of Paris Terror ‘a Bunch of Folks’ Shot Randomly,” Washington Times, February 10, 2015, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/feb/10/obama-outrages-by-calling-4-jewish-victims-of-pari/.
17 Thomas Jefferson, “First Inaugural Address,” Avalon Project, Yale Law School, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/jefinau1.asp.
18 CNN Staff, “Here’s the Full Text of Donald Trump’s Victory Speech,” CNN Politics, November 9, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-victory-speech/.
CHAPTER SIX: TRUMP’S WAR TO RESTORE THE MILITARY
1 John Hayward, “A Look into the Mind of Gen. James Mattis: 15 Quotes from Trump’s Secretary of Defense Pick,” Breitbart News, December 2, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/02/top-15-quotes-secretary-defense-nominee-james-mattis/.
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, “Department of Defense Press Briefing by Secretary Carter on Transgender Service Policies in the Pentagon Briefing Room,” U.S. Department of Defense, June 30, 2016, http://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript-View/Article/822347/department-of-defense-press-briefing-by-secretary-carter-on-transgender-service.
5 Ibid.
6 Gaye Clark, “VA Backpedals on Gender Reassignment Surgery,” Christian Headlines, December 2, 2016, http://www.christianheadlines.com/blog/va-backpedals-on-gender-reassignment-surgery.html.
7 Jim Garamone, “Robinson Succeeds Gortney as Northern Command, NORAD Commander,” U.S. Department of Defense, May 13, 2016, http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/759453/robinson-succeeds-gortney-as-northern-command-norad-commander.
8 Cheryl Pellerin, “Carter Opens All Military Occupations, Positions to Women,” U.S. Department of Defense, December 3, 2015, http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/632536/carter-opens-all-military-occupations-positions-to-women.
9 Tia Ghose, “Women in Combat: Physical Differences May Mean Uphill Battle,” LiveScience, December 7, 2015, http://www.livescience.com/52998-women-combat-gender-differences.html.
10 Jonah Bennett, “Here’s Exactly How the Military Could Lower Standards for Women in Combat,” Daily Caller, March 27, 2016, http://dailycaller.com/2016/03/27/heres-exactly-how-the-military-could-lower-standards-for-women-in-combat/#ixzz4SBjIZqiM.
11 Richard Sisk, “Mattis Pick Could See Senate Clash on Women in Combat, PTSD,” Military Life, December 1, 2016, http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/12/01/mattis-pick-could-see-senate-clash-on-women-in-combat-ptsd.html.
12 Ibid.
13 Ash Carter, “Combat Integration: The First Year of Firsts,” December 3, 2016, https://medium.com/@SecDef/combat-integration-the-first-year-of-firsts-da08f64f42a3#.nmkswigdg.
14 Oriana Pawlyk, “Air Force Confirms No Women Now in SpecOps Training,” Military.com, December 7, 2016, http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/12/07/air-force-confirms-no-women-specops-training.html.
15 Paul Ausick, “Why a Boeing 747-8 Costs $357 Million,” 24/7 Wall Street, June 3, 2014, http://247wallst.com/aerospace-defense/2014/06/03/why-a-boeing-747-8-costs-357-million/.
16 Donald Trump, Twitter account, December 6, 2016, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/806134244384899072.
17 Luis Martinez and Becky Perlow, “Fact Checking Trump’s $4B Boeing Tweet: Where That Number Came From and What the Contract Says,” ABC News, December 7, 2016, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fact-checking-trumps-4b-boeing-tweet-number-contract/story?id=44033643.
18 Christian Davenport, “Just Before Trump Blasted Air Force One Deal, Boeing Pledged $1M for Inauguration,” Chicago Tribune, December 9, 2016, http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-boeing-trump-inauguration-20161209-story.html.
19 “FULL EVENT: Donald Trump ‘THANK YOU’ Rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina (12/6/2016),” Trump TV Network, December 6, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUreExyfw5o.
20 Michelle Tan, “US Army Generals Criticize Outdated Deployment Model: ‘We’ve Gotten Rusty,’” Defense News, March 16, 2016, http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/show-daily/ausa-global-force/2016/03/16/us-army-generals-criticize-outdated-deployment-model-weve-gotten-rusty/81858318/.
21 Matthew Cox, “Pentagon Tells Congress to Stop Buying Equipment it Doesn’t Need,” Military.com, January 28, 2015, http://www.military.com/daily-news/ 2015/01/28/pentagon-tells-congress-to-stop-buying-equipment-it-doesnt-need.html.
22 Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “America’s ‘Everything’ Fighter Jet Is a Total Disaster,” The Week, January 27, 2016, http://theweek.com/articles/601080/americas-everything-fighter-jet-total-disaster.
23 Thomas Gibbons, “U.S. Special Operations Units Are Using Faulty Rifle Sights,” Washington Post, April 3,
2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/04/03/u-s-special-operations-units-are-using-faulty-rifle-sights/?utm_term=.2e625bd94042.
24 “Findings of Fraud and Other Irregularities Related to the Manufacture and Sale of Combat Helmets by the Federal Prison Industries and ArmorSource, LLC, to the Department of Defense,” U.S. Office of the Inspector General, August 2016, https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/i1608.pdf.
CHAPTER SEVEN: TRUMP’S WAR AGAINST THE WAR MACHINE
1 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994), p. 80.
2 Tim Ciccotta, “Transgender Activists Derail Free Speech Rally Supporting Professor Refusing to Use Gender Pronouns,” Breitbart News, October 24, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/10/24/transgender-activists-derail-free-speech-rally-supporting-professor-refusing-to-use-gender-pronouns/.
3 Russ Read, “Clinton’s Syria Strategy Would ‘Require’ War with Russia, Congress Hears,” Daily Caller, September 26, 2016, http://dailycaller.com/2016/09/26/clintons-syria-strategy-would-require-war-with-russia-congress-hears/#ixzz4QkSarZCm.
4 Clifford J. Levy, “Welcome or Not, Orthodoxy Is Back in Russia’s Public Schools,” New York Times, September 23, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/world/europe/23russia.html.
5 Nina Achmatova, “Religion Becomes a Compulsory Subject in All Russian Schools,” AsiaNews, February 14, 2012, http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Religion-becomes-a-compulsory-subject-in-all-Russian-schools-23967.html.
6 John Adams, “From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798,” National Archives, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-3102.
7 “The Road to a Paris Climate Deal,” New York Times, December 14, 2015.
8 Ian Bateson, “Putin Signs Law Banning Advertisements for Abortion in Russia,” NBC News, November 25, 2013, http://www.nbcnews.com/news/other/putin-signs-law-banning-advertisements-abortion-russia-f2D11655460.
9 Vladimir Putin, “Putin Speaks at Davos,” Wall Street Journal, January 28, 2009, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123317069332125243.
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