by Craig Unger
25. Pam Martens and Russ Martens, “Could Trump’s Jones Day Lawyers End Up in Deutsche Bank-Gate?,” Wall Street on Parade, May 9, 2019.
26. Craig Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin (Dutton, 2018).
27. Ellen Nakashima, Adam Entous, and Greg Miller, “Russian Ambassador Told Moscow That Kushner Wanted Secret Communications Channel with Kremlin,” Washington Post, May 26, 2017.
28. “Whitehouse to Urge Colleagues to Vote ‘No’ on Former Alfa Bank Lawyer Benczkowski to Lead DOJ Criminal Division,” July 10, 2019, prepared remarks.
29. Charlie Savage and Adam Goldman, “Justice Dept. Nominee Says He Once Represented Russian Bank,” New York Times, July 25, 2017.
30. Franklin Foer, “Was a Trump Server Communicating with Russia?,” Slate, October 16, 2016.
31. Dexter Filkins, “Was There a Connection Between a Russian Bank and the Trump Campaign?,” New Yorker, October 8, 2018.
32. Matthew Rosenberg, Maggie Haberman, and Adam Goldman, “2 White House Officials Helped Give Nunes Intelligence Reports,” New York Times, March 30, 2017.
33. Nat Ives, “Rupert Murdoch: Everything’s Fine,” Ad Age, August 10, 2011.
34. Ben Smith, “Rupert Murdoch Put His Son in Charge of Fox. It Was a Dangerous Mistake,” New York Times, March 22, 2020.
35. Derek Kravitz, Al Shaw, Claire Perlman, Alex Mierjeski, and David Mora, “Trump Town,” ProPublica and Columbia Jornalism Investigations, March 7, 2018.
36. Author’s interview with Painter.
37. Roy Strom, “How Kirkland ‘Partners in Name Only’ Live in Limbo,” Bloomberg Law, January 8, 2020.
38. James B. Stewart, “$11 Million a Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier Firms,” New York Times, April 26, 2018.
39. Author’s interview with Painter.
40. 60 Minutes Investigates the Death of Jeffrey Epstein, CBS, produced by Oriana Zill de Granados, January 5, 2020.
41. Matt London, “Prominent Lawyer with Epstein Days Before Death Speaks Out: ‘I Don’t Believe It Was Suicide,’” Fox News, March 12, 2019.
42. 60 Minutes Investigates the Death of Jeffrey Epstein, CBS.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: BARR JUSTICE
1. Email from Peter Steinfels to the author.
2. “Background Briefing with Ian Master,” June 4, 2020.
3. “Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks to the Law School and the Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame,” October 11, 2019.
4. Joan Walsh, “William Barr Is Neck-Deep in Extremist Catholic Institutions,” The Nation, October 15, 2019.
5. “American Society Needs ‘God’s Law,’ Says Attorney General,” Church and State, December 1992.
6. Cristina Maza, “Should William Barr Recuse Himself from Mueller Report? Legal Experts Say Attorney General’s Ties to Russia Are Troubling,” Newsweek, April 15, 2019.
7. Maza, “Should William Barr Recuse Himself from Mueller Report?”
8. Maza, “Should William Barr Recuse Himself from Mueller Report?”
9. William Barr, “Former Attorney General: Trump Made the Right Call on Comey,” Washington Post, May 12, 2017.
10. Devlin Barrett, “Attorney General Nominee Wrote Memo Criticizing Mueller Obstruction Probe,” Washington Post, December 20, 2018.
11. Author’s interview with Donald Ayer.
12. Mattathias Schwartz, “William Barr’s State of Emergency,” New York Times, June 1, 2020.
13. Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election Volume I of II Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III Submitted Pursuant to 28 C.F.R. § 600.8(c) Washington, D.C., March 2019.
14. Jeffrey Toobin, “Why the Mueller Report Failed,” The New Yorker, June 29, 2020.
15. Philip Bump, “In a Footnote, Mueller Sends a Warning Shot to Trump,” Washington Post, April 3, 2018.
16. Philip Bump, “What Happened to the Trump Counterintelligence Investigation? House Investigators Don’t Know,” Washington Post, May 15, 2019.
17. Bump, “What Happened to the Trump Counterintelligence Investigation?”
18. Ryan Goodman, “A Side-by-Side Comparison of Barr’s vs. Mueller’s Statements About Special Counsel Report,” Just Security, June 5, 2019.
19. Adam Goldman, Charlie Savage, and Michael S. Schmidt, “Barr Assigns U.S. Attorney in Connecticut to Review Origins of Russia Inquiry,” New York Times, May 13, 2019.
20. Devlin Barrett, Carol D. Leonnig, Robert Costa, and Colby Itkowitz, “Trump Gives Barr Power to Declassify Intelligence Related to Russia Probe,” Washington Post, May 23, 2019.
21. Kim Sengupta, “‘It’s Like Nothing We Have Come Across Before’: UK Intelligence Officials Shaken by Trump Administration’s Requests for Help with Counter-Impeachment Inquiry,” Independent, November 1, 2019.
22. Campbell Robertson, Rick Rojas, and Kate Taylor, “After George Floyd’s Death, Toll Rises in Protests Across the Country,” New York Times, June 1, 2020.
23. Reuters, “U.S. Government to Send Additional Help for Responding to Violent Protests, White House Says,” June 1, 2020.
24. “Telephone Conversation with US President Donald Trump,” President of Russia Events, June 1, 2020.
25. Michael Crowley, “Trump and Putin Discuss Russia’s Attendance at G7, but Allies Are Wary,” New York Times, June 1, 2020.
26. Christine Hauser, “What Is the Insurrection Act of 1807, the Law Behind Trump’s Threat to States?,” New York Times, June 2, 2020.
27. Chris Strohm, “Barr Says Secret Service Told Trump to Go to White House Bunker,” Bloomberg News, June 8, 2020.
28. Philip Bump, “Timeline: The Clearing of Lafayette Square,” Washington Post, June 5, 2020.
29. Michael Balsamo, “Barr Says He Didn’t Give Tactical Order to Clear Protesters,” Associated Press, June 5, 2020.
30. Bump, “Timeline: The Clearing of Lafayette Square.”
31. Alana Wise, “Trump Says He’ll Deploy Military to States if They Don’t Stop Violent Protests,” NPR, June 1, 2020.
32. Joe Heim, “Episcopal Priest Describes Being Gassed and Overrun by Police at Lafayette Square Church,” Washington Post, June 2, 2020.
33. Marissa J. Lang, “Federal Officials Stockpiled Munitions, Sought ‘Heat Ray’ Device Before Clearing Lafayette Square, Whistleblower Says,” Washington Post, September 17, 2020.
34. Glenn Kessler, “William Barr’s Four-Pinocchio Claim That Pepper Balls Are ‘Not Chemical,’” Washington Post, June 8, 2020.
35. Kevin Johnson, “More Than 1,200 Former DOJ Officials Call for Review of AG Barr’s Role in Clearing Protesters Near White House,” USA Today, June 10, 2020.
36. Garrett M. Graff, “Unidentified Federal Police Prompt Fears Amid Protests in Washington,” Politico, June 5, 2020.
37. Helene Cooper, “Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There,’” New York Times, June 11, 2020.
38. Mike Mullen, “I Cannot Remain Silent,” The Atlantic, June 2, 2020.
39. Cooper, “Milley Apologizes.”
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: AMERICAN CARNAGE
1. Larry Buchanan, Quoctrung Bul, and Jugal K. Patel, “Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History,” New York Times, July 3, 2020.
2. “In Shift, Tillerson Says Assad’s Status up to Syrian People,” Agence France-Presse, March 30, 2017.
3. Greg Jaffe and Adam Entous, “Trump Ends Covert CIA Program to Arm Anti-Assad Rebels in Syria, a Move Sought by Moscow,” Washington Post, July 19, 2017.
4. Julian E. Barnes and Eric Schmitt, “Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Northern Syria,” New York Times, October 13, 2019.
5. Mitch Prothero, “Trump Has Delivered What Russia Wants in Syria—at Zero Cost—and ‘Putin Likely Can’t
Believe His Luck,’” Business Insider, October 14, 2019.
6. Josh Rogin, “Trump Campaign Guts GOP’s Anti-Russia Stance on Ukraine,” Washington Post, July 18, 2016.
7. Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper, “Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. from NATO, Aides Say Amid New Concerns over Russia,” New York Times, January 14, 2019.
8. Jeffrey A. Stacey, “A Russian Attack on Montenegro Could Mean the End of NATO,” Foreign Policy, July 27, 2020.
9. Barnes and Cooper, “Trump Discussed Pulling U.S. from NATO.”
10. “Emmanuel Macron Warns Europe: NATO Is Becoming Brain-Dead,” The Economist, November 7, 2019.
11. Mujib Mashal, Eric Schmitt, Najim Rahim, and Rukmini Callimachi, “Afghan Contractor Handed Out Russian Cash to Kill Americans, Officials Say,” New York Times, July 1, 2020.
12. “Russia Allegedly Offered Bounties for Killing American Soldiers,” The Economist, July 2, 2020.
13. Jeffrey Goldberg, “Trump: Americans Who Died at War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers,’” The Atlantic, September 3, 2020.
14. Ryan Goodman, “Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin, While Taking No Action Against Russia Arming Taliban,” Just Security, July 8, 2020.
15. Laura Jarrett and David Shortell, “Embattled FBI Official Andrew McCabe Could Lose ‘a Lot of Money’ If Fired Before Sunday,” CNN, March 16, 2018.
16. Author’s telephone interview with Clint Watts.
17. Melissa Quinn, “The Internal Watchdogs Trump Has Fired or Replaced,” CBS News, May 19, 2020.
18. Matthew Rosenberg, “Trump Misleads on Russian Meddling: Why 17 Intelligence Agencies Don’t Need to Agree,” New York Times, July 6, 2020.
19. Zack Budryk, “Ukrainian Officials and Giuliani Are Sharing Back-Channel Campaign Information: Report,” The Hill, July 22, 2019.
20. Peter Baker, “‘We Absolutely Could Not Do That’: When Seeking Foreign Help Was Out of the Question,” New York Times, October 6, 2019.
21. Andrew E. Kramer, “Ukraine Ousts Viktor Shokin, Top Prosecutor, and Political Stability Hangs in the Balance,” New York Times, March 29, 2016.
22. David L. Stern and Robyn Dixon, “Ukraine Court Forces Probe into Biden Role in Firing of Prosecutor Viktor Shokin,” Washington Post, February 27, 2020.
23. Stern and Dixon, “Ukraine Court Forces Probe.”
24. G. H. Eliason, “Donald Trump’s Ukraine Server—How the FBI and ODNI Hacked and Influenced the American Psyche,” Saker blog, March 21, 2020.
25. Molly Roberts, “The Shape-Shifting Genius of Obamagate,” Washington Post, May 20, 2020.
26. CD Media Staff, “Audio Tape Released Between Corrupt Former Ukrainian President Poroshenko and Joe Biden Discussing Corrupt Activities. John Kerry Also on Tape,” Creative Destruction Media, May 19, 2020.
27. Paul Sonne, Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey, and David L. Stern, “Hunt for Biden Tapes in Ukraine by Trump Allies Revives Prospect of Foreign Interference,” Washington Post, July 1, 2020.
28. Sonne, Helderman, Dawsey, and Stern, “Hunt for Biden Tapes in Ukraine by Trump Allies.”
29. Hillary Clinton, Howard Stern Show, December 4, 2019.
30. Glenn Kessler and Scott Clement, “Trump Routinely Says Things That Aren’t True. Few Americans Believe Him,” Washington Post, December 14, 2018.
31. Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey, “Trump and Biden Campaigns Shift Focus to Coronavirus as Pandemic Surges,” Washington Post, July 6, 2020.
32. Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and Mike McIntire, “Long Concealed Records Show Trump’s Chronic Losses and Years of Tax Avoidance,” New York Times, September 27, 2020.
33. Shannon Palus, “A Doctor Weighs In on What Steroids Might Be Doing to Trump’s Brain,” Slate, October 8, 2020.
34. Matthew Impelli, “Amy Coney Barrett Rose Garden Event Was a WH COVID Superspreader, New Data Suggests,” Newsweek, October 9, 2020.
35. Helen Branswell, “Fauci: Trump’s Rapid Recovery from Covid-19, While Welcome, ‘Amplifies’ Public Misunderstanding of Disease,” State News, October 13, 2020.
36. Sam Levine, “Trump Admits He Is Undermining USPS to Make It Harder to Vote By Mail,” The Guardian, August 13, 2020.
37. “How Pennsylvania Broke for Biden as Trump’s Early Lead Evaporated,” Tribune-Review, November 7, 2020.
38. Philip Bump, “Trump’s Post-Election Agenda: Six Events, Four Rounds of Golf, 400 Tweets,” Washington Post, November 18, 2020.
39. Irwin Redlener, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Sean Hansen, and Nathaniel Hupert, “130,000–210,000 Avoidable COVID-19 Deaths—and Counting—in the U.S.,” National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Earth Institute, Columbia University, October 21, 2020.
40. “Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count,” New York Times, November 18, 2020.
41. Bump, “Trump’s Post-Election Agenda.”
42. Meredith Deliso, Catherine Thorbecke, and Marc Nathanson, “Election 2020: A Look at Trump Campaign Election Lawsuits and Where They Stand,” ABC News, November 17, 2020.
43. Sonia Seth and Jacob Samsian, “Republicans Have Won Just One Out of Nearly Two Dozen Lawsuits They’ve Filed Since Election Day,” Business Insider, November 11, 2020.
44. Claudi Grisales, “Sen. Rubio Joins Small Group of Republican Senators Calling Biden ‘President-Elect,’” NPR, November 16, 2020.
45. “Pompeo: ‘There Will Be a Smooth Transition to a Second Trump Administration,’” Washington Post, November 10, 2020.
46. Matthew Rosenberg, “A QAnon Supporter Is Headed to Congress,” New York Times, November 3, 2020.
47. Pilar Melendez, “‘Vote Fraud’ Witness at Rudy Giuliani’s Four Seasons Total Landscaping Presser Is a Convicted Sex Offender,” Daily Beast, November 9, 2020.
48. Amy Gardner, “Ga. Secretary of State Says Fellow Republicans Are Pressuring Him to Find Ways to Exclude Ballots,” Washington Post, November 16, 2020.
49. Maggie Haberman, Jim Rutenberg, Nick Corasaniti, and Reid J. Epstein, “Trump Targets Michigan in His Ploy to Subvert the Election,” The Guardian, November 19, 2020.
50. Mike Levine, “Barr’s Removal of Career National Security Official, Weeks Before Election, Raises Concerns,” ABC News, August 31, 2020.
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INDEX
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abortion, 122, 124, 128, 129, 142
Academy of Foreign Intelligence, 42, 52, 60
Acosta, Alexander, 237–241
Acronis, 217
active measures, 17, 23, 75, 88, 92
Affordable Care Act, 297
Afghanistan, 283
Agalarov, Aras, 12–13
Agalarov, Emin, 12–13
agents
definition of, 36
KGB assets vs, 87
penetration, 218
spotters, 17, 35–36
types of, 36, 44, 87, 218
AI-driven asymmetric warfare (ADAW), 214–215. See also artificial intelligence
Alfa Bank, 100, 242, 244, 246, 255
aluminum wars, 45–46, 161
American Dream Enterprise, 187
American media, Trump–Russia coverage by, 11–12
Ames, Aldrich, 47, 52, 54, 101–102
Andrew, Prince, Duke of York, 182, 186, 192, 196–197, 201, 210
Andropov, Yuri, 30, 52, 150
Angleton, James Jesus, 9–10
anstalt, definition of, 120n
antifa, 269
Apollo Global Management, 173
Araoz, Jennifer, 193
Arif, Tevfik, 162, 185
&n
bsp; artificial intelligence, 212–215
Atkinson, Michael, 285
authoritarianism, 3, 5, 119, 242, 258. See also theocratic authoritarianism
autocratic presidency, 4, 254, 257
Aven, Petr, 246, 249
Ayer, Donald, 257
Baden, Michael, 251–252
BadVolf. See Dougan, John Mark
Balagula, Marat, 50
Barak, Ehud, 176, 196, 211
Barnett, Neil, 221, 227–228, 230
Barr, Donald, 170–171
Barr, William P.
attack on secularists, 254–255
as attorney general, 18, 135, 258
background of, 130–131
British intelligence meeting, 266
Bush, George H. W. and, 18, 132, 134, 135
as Catholic Information Center chairman, 139, 141
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights speech, 142, 255
at CIA’s Office of Legislative Counsel, 131–133
commanding law enforcement at Lafayette Square, 274, 275
defending Comey removal, 256
demeanor of, 132
as Department of Justice head, 247
Durham and, 287–288
on Epstein’s death, 251, 252
on executive privilege, 134
Flynn and, 286–287
Gray and, 133–134
ideological clashes with Beck, 131
inflating presidency’s powers, 24, 137
Iraqgate scandal, 136
with Kirkland & Ellis, 238
on moral lobotomy in public schools, 142
moving FBI focus off Russian Mafia, 164
as Mr. Whitewash, 135–136
Notre Dame Law School speech, 254
Opus Dei ties, 6, 100, 139–141
parents of, 130
potential conflicts of interest, 256
on presidential authority, 131
recommending presidential pardons, 136–137
religious zealotry, 253–254
rescuing Trump aides, 265
Russian ties to, 255
Saint John’s Episcopal Church photo op, 271–272, 274
