7 Jack Billings, “Fort Lauderdale Shooting Reactions Fly Past Gunman and onto Gun Control,” Guns.com, January 7, 2016, http://www.guns.com/2017/01/07/fort-lauderdale-shooting-reactions-fly-past-gunman-and-onto-gun-control/.
8 Ibid.
9 Walid Shoebat, “Photo Evidence Reveals Ft. Lauderdale Shooter Is a Muslim Terrorist,” Shoebat.com, January 6, 2017, http://shoebat.com/2017/01/06/photo-evidence-reveals-ft-lauderdale-shooter-is-a-muslim-terrorist/.
10 Ibid.
11 “Inaugural Address: Trump’s Full Speech,” CNN, January 20, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-inaugural-address/index.html.
12 Dan Roberts, “Every Mass Shooting Shares One Thing in Common & It’s NOT Weapons,” Ammoland, April 1, 2013, http://www.ammoland.com/2013/04/every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-psychotropic-drugs/#axzz4WPhb61a1.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid.
15 “Mental Health Medications,” National Institutes of Health, https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/mental-health-medications/index.shtml.
16 Alison Leigh Cowan, “Adam Lanza’s Mental Problems ‘Completely Untreated’ Before Newtown Shootings, Report Says,” New York Times, November 21, 2014.
17 Allaine Griffin and Josh Kovner, “Lanza’s Psychiatric Treatment Revealed in Documents,” Hartford Courant, December 28, 2013, http://articles.courant.com/2013-12-28/news/hc-lanza-sandy-hook-report1228-20131227_1_peter-lanza-adam-lanza-nancy-lanza.
18 Brendan L. Smith, “Inappropriate Prescribing,” Monitor on Psychology,43, no. 6 (June 2012), http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/06/prescribing.aspx.
19 Will Self, “Psychiatrists: The Drug Pushers,” Guardian, August 3, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/03/will-self-psychiatrist-drug-medication.
CHAPTER TWELVE: TRUMP’S WAR AGAINST THE DEEP STATE
1 Donald Trump. “Trump News Conference (Video),” New York Times, January 11, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004865278/watch-live-trump-news-conference.html.
2 Stephan Dinan, “Federal Workers Hit Record Number, but Growth Slows Under Obama,” Washington Times, February 9, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/9/federal-workers-hit-record-number-but-growth-slows/.
3 “Intelligence Report on Russian Hacking,” New York Times, January 6, 2017, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/06/us/politics/document-russia-hacking-report-intelligence-agencies.html?_r=0.
4 Michael D. Shear and David E. Sanger, “Putin Led a Complex Cyberattack Scheme to Aid Trump, Report Finds,” New York Times, January 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/donald-trump-wall-hack-russia.html.
5 Donald Trump, Twitter, January 5, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/817166353266262016.
6 “Comey: FBI Denied Repeated Requests to Access DNC Servers, Podesta’s Device,” Fox News Politics, January 10, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/10/comey-fbi-denied-repeated-requests-to-access-dnc-servers-podesta-s-device.html.
7 Aaron Klein, “DNC ‘Russian Hacking’ Conclusion Comes from Google-Linked Firm,” Breitbart News, January 6, 2017, http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/06/dnc-russian-hacking-conclusion-comes-google-linked-firm/.
8 Ibid.
9 Atlantic Council website, http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/ukraine.
10 William Binney, “US Intel Vets Dispute Russia Hacking Claims,” Consortium News, December 12, 2016, https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/12/us-intel-vets-dispute-russia-hacking-claims/.
11 Peter Hasson, “Schumer: Intelligence Community May ‘Get Back at’ Trump for Tweet [VIDEO],” Daily Caller, January 4, 2017, http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/04/schumer-intelligence-community-may-get-back-at-trump-for-tweet-video/#ixzz4VmPSaNrv.
12 “Ukraine Crisis: Crimea Leader Appeals to Putin for Help,” BBC News, March 1, 2014, http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26397323.
13 Valerie Richardson, “Democratic Heads Roll After Video Shows Agitators Planted at Trump Rallies,” Washington Times, October 18, 2016, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/oct/18/undercover-video-shows-democrats-saying-they-hire-/.
14 Curt Devine, “Trump’s Foreign Business Interests: 144 Companies in 25 Countries,” CNN, November 29, 2016, http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/28/politics/trump-foreign-businesses/.
15 Bradley Hope, Michael Rothfeld, and Alan Cullison, “Christopher Steele, Ex-British Intelligence Officer, Said to Have Prepared Dossier on Trump,” Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2017, http://www.wsj.com/articles/christopher-steele-ex-british-intelligence-officer-said-to-have-prepared-dossier-on-trump-1484162553.
16 Sydney Ember and Michael M. Grynbaum, “BuzzFeed Posts Unverified Claims on Trump, Igniting a Debate,” New York Times, January 10, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/business/buzzfeed-donald-trump-russia.html?_r=0.
17 “DNI Clapper Statement on Conversation with President-elect Trump,” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, January 11, 2017, https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/224-press-releases-2017/1469-dni-clapper-statement-on-conversation-with-president-elect-trump.
18 Matt Zapotosky and Sari Horwitz, “Justice Department Inspector General to Investigate Pre-Election Actions by Department and FBI,” Washington Post, January 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/01/12/justice-department-inspector-general-to-investigate-pre-election-actions-by-department-and-fbi/?utm_term=.075dc320a1ff.
19 “Russia Hits Out at Biggest US Military Build-up in Europe Since Cold War,” The Week, January 13, 2017, http://www.theweek.co.uk/74309/russia-hits-out-at-biggest-us-military-build-up-in-europe-since-cold-war.
20 Laura Smith-Spark and Atika Shubert, “Poland Welcomes US Troops as Part of NATO Buildup,” CNN, January 14, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/14/europe/poland-us-troops-nato-welcome/.
21 Krishnadev Calamur, “NATO Shmato?” Atlantic, July 21, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/07/trump-nato/492341/.
22 Ewan MacAskill, “Russia Says US Troops Arriving in Poland Pose Threat to Its Security,” Guardian, January 12, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/12/doubts-over-biggest-us-deployment-in-europe-since-cold-war-under-trump.
23 Ibid.
24 “Putin Discusses Trump, OPEC, Rosneft, Brexit, Japan (Transcript),” Bloomberg, September 5, 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-05/putin-discusses-trump-opec-rosneft-brexit-japan-transcript.
25 “George W. Bush: The Bucharest Summit Will Be One ‘Marked by Success,’” NATO Bucharest Summit website, 2008, http://www.summitbucharest.ro/en/doc_130.html.
26 “Nato Denies Georgia and Ukraine,” BBC News, April 3, 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7328276.stm.
27 Anatol Lieven, “Putin Versus Cheney,” New York Times, May 11, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/opinion/11iht-edlieven.html.
28 Dean Parker. “In Hitler’s Steps: Huge US Military Convoy to Advance from Germany to Russia’s Border,” Russia Insider, June 3, 2016, http://russia-insider.com/en/hitlers-steps-huge-us-military-convoy-advance-germany-russias-border/ri14784.
29 Ryan Teague Beckwith, “Read Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ Foreign Policy Speech,” Time, April 27, 2016, http://time.com/4309786/read-donald-trumps-america-first-foreign-policy-speech/.
30 Ibid.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE BATTLE PLAN
1 “Inaugural Address: Trump’s Full Speech,” CNN, January 21, 2017, http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-inaugural-address/index.html.
2 Thomas Paine, Common Sense, from Collected Writings, edited by Eric Foner (New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 1955), p. 52.
3 “List of Trump’s Executive Orders,” Fox News, January 24, 2017, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/24/list-trumps-executive-orders.html
* “RINO” originally stood for “Republicans in Name Only,” meaning a Republican who campaigned on conservative principles but then acted like a progressive once in power. I use the term in that sense, although
the Republican Party has become so replete with liberal internationalists the acronym is somewhat a misnomer.
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