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“Where is the server?”: Neufeld, “Read the full transcript.”
“incontrovertible”: David E. Sanger, “Trump’s National Security Chief Calls Russian Interference ‘Incontrovertible,’ ” New York Times, February 17, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/world/europe/russia-meddling-mcmaster.html.
“General McMaster forgot”: “The Latest: Trump tweet undercuts McMaster Russia claims,” Associated Press, February 18, 2018, https://apnews.com/article/north-america-donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-indictments-966d5d2cb614e4c9da8e6200505c9f6.
the president’s immediate circle: Entous, “What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House.”
building up nuclear arsenals: Steven Pifer, “Nuclear Arms Control Choices for the Next Administration,” Brookings report, October 2016, https://www.brookings.edu/research/nuclear-arms-control-choices-for-the-next-administration/.
scrambling for a new approach: Bolton, The Room Where It Happened.
12. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
compromising information: Entous, “What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House.”
Fruman recorded: Katherine Faulders et al., “ ‘Take her out’: Recording appears to capture Trump at private dinner saying he wants Ukraine ambassador fired,” ABC News, January 24, 2020, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/recording-appears-capture-trump-private-dinner-ukraine-ambassador/story?id=68506437.
Trump railed against: Eli Watkins, “Trump’s top economic aide on Trudeau: ‘It was a betrayal,’ ” CNN, June 10, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/10/politics/larry-kudlow-donald-trump-justin-trudeau/index.html.
“go through some things”: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Ex-Envoy to Ukraine ‘Devastated’ as Trump Vilified Her,” New York Times, November 15, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/15/us/politics/marie-yovanovitch-testimony.html.
family ties: Bryan Talbot, Alice in Sunderland (Milkwaukee: Dark Horse, 2007).
“ungovernable passion”: Cited in A. S. Byatt, “Queen of hearts and minds,” Guardian, December 14, 2002, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/dec/14/classics.asbyatt.
“one way of settling all difficulties”: Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (London, 1865; Project Gutenberg, 2008), chap. 8, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.
“the Russia hoax”: Alex Marquardt, Zachary Cohen, and Jeremy Herb, “Grenell takes parting shot at Democrats as he exits top intelligence job,” CNN, May 26, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/grenell-director-of-national-intelligence-final-days/index.html.
highest cabinet turnover: Tenpas, Tracking Turnover in the Trump Administration.
internet conspiracy theories: Dan Evon, “Is This a Photo of Vladimir Putin with Fiona Hill?,” Snopes, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/vladimir-putin-with-fiona-hill/.
I featured on Infowars: Timothy Johnson, “Alex Jones presses on with Roger Stone’s smear campaign against Fiona Hill,” Media Matters, November 25, 2019, https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-presses-roger-stones-smear-campaign-against-fiona-hill.
Mack had sold me out: Entous, “What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House.”
I later learned: Entous, “What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House.”
left-wing political activities: Emily Tamkin, The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for an Open Society (New York: HarperCollins, 2020).
was apologetic: Entous, “What Fiona Hill Learned in the White House.”
traded in disinformation: Thomas Rid, Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2020).
“Soros conspiracy”: Hannes Grassegger, “The Unbelievable Story of the Plot Against George Soros,” BuzzFeed News, January 20, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/hnsgrassegger/george-soros-conspiracy-finkelstein-birnbaum-orban-netanyahu.
anti-Semitic undertones: Steven J. Zipperstein, “The Conspiracy Theory to Rule Them All,” Atlantic, August 25, 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/08/conspiracy-theory-rule-them-all/615550/.
featured in Mein Kampf: Richard Evans, The Hitler Conspiracies: The Third Reich and the Paranoid Imagination (London: Penguin, 2021); Timothy Snyder, “The American Abyss,” New York Times, January 9, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html.
early exponent of “birtherism”: Adam Serwer, “Birtherism of a Nation,” Atlantic, May 13, 2020, https://www.theatlatic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/birtherism-and-trump/610978/.
QAnon: Adrienne LaFrance, “The Prophecies of Q,” Atlantic, June 2020, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/06/qanon-nothing-can-stop-what-is-coming/610567/; Ilana Strauss, “The Dark Reality of Betting Against QAnon,” Atlantic, January 1, 2021, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/betting-against-qanon-predictit/617396/; Sabrina Tavernise, “ ‘Trump Just Used Us and Our Fear’: One Woman’s Journey Out of QAnon,” New York Times, January 30, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/leaving-qanon-conspiracy.html.
openly embraced it: E. J. Dickson, “A Timeline of Trump’s QAnon Presidency,” Rolling Stone, October 27, 2020, https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/qanon-trump-timeline-conspiracy-theorists-1076279/.
posted his picture: Hannah Levintova and Dan Friedman, “The Head of Albania’s Conservative Party Faces Criminal Charges, and an Ex-Trump Aide Is Involved,” Mother Jones, June 13, 2019, https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/the-head-of-albanias-conservative-party-faces-criminal-charges-and-an-ex-trump-aide-is-involved/.
I might be “Anonymous”: “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” New York Times, September 5, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house-anonymous-resistance.html; Anonymous, A Warning (New York: Twelve, 2019); Margaret Hartman, “All the Theories on Who Wrote the Anonymous Anti-Trump Op-Ed,” New York Magazine, September 6, 2018, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/09/theories-who-wrote-trump-op-ed.html.
device to expel officials: Meredith McGraw, “White House transfers top national security aide after whisper campaign,” Politico, February 20, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/20/top-national-security-aide-anonymous-book-116325.
trusted the federal government: “Little Public Support for Reductions in Federal Spending,” Pew Research Center, April 11, 2019, https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/04/11/little-public-support-for-reductions-in-federal-spending/.
Steve Bannon: Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “Bannon vows a daily fight for ‘deconstruction of the administrative state,’ ” Washington Post, February 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-wh-strategist-vows-a-daily-fight-for-deconstruction-of-the-administrative-state/2017/02/23/03f6b8da-f9ea-11e6-bf01-d47f8cf9b643_story.html.
full transcript: U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, joint with the Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Deposition of Fiona Hill, 116th Cong., 1st sess., 2019, https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/CPRT-116-IG00-D010.pdf.
“blood coming out of her wherever”: Holly Yan, “Donald Trump’s ‘blood’ comment about Megyn Kelly draws outrage,” CNN, August 8, 2015, https://www.cnn.com/2015/08/08/politics/donald-trump-cnn-megyn-kelly-comment/index.html.
Women’s anger is not: Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019); Rebecca Traister, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019).
female icon status: Ellie Hall, “Fiona Hill Gave a Relatable Answer About Women’s Anger During Her Impeachment Testimony to Congress,” BuzzFeed News, November 21, 2019, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ellievhall/fiona-hill-women-anger-impeachment-answer.
13. THE HORRIBLE YEAR
annus horribilis of 2020: Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World (McLean, VA: U.S. National Intelligence Council, 2021), https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/GlobalTrends_2040.pdf.
ad hoc manner: Julian Borger, “ ‘Trump thought I was a secretary’: Fiona Hill on the president, Putin and populism,” Guardian, June 12, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/12/fiona-hill-trump-putin-populism-interview.
four hundred thousand Americans: “COVID-19 United States Cases by County,” Johns Hopkins University and Medicine Coronavirus Resource Center, accessed April 29, 2021, https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map.
close to two hundred thousand: “Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count,” New York Times, updated April 29, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html.
Urgent action: Joe Davidson, “GAO report slams Trump administration response to the coronavirus pandemic,” Washington Post, February 3, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gao-trump-covid-biden/2021/02/02/38f0a0a8-65a4-11eb-bf81-c618c88ed605_story.html.
long-standing failure: Ken Alltucker, “Roughly 40% of the USA’s coronavirus deaths could have been prevented, a new study says,” USA Today, February 11, 2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/02/11/lancet-commission-donald-trump-covid-19-health-medicare-for-all/4453762001/.
Dr. Anthony Fauci: Donald G. McNeil, Jr., “Fauci on What Working for Trump Was Really Like,” New York Times, January 24, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/health/fauci-trump-covid.html.
dose themselves prophylactically: Jeffrey Kluger, “Accidental Poisonings Increased After President Trump’s Disinfectant Comments,” Time, May 12, 2020, https://time.com/5835244/accidental-poisonings-trump/.
The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk (New York: W. W. Norton, 2018).
size of the crowd: Megan Garber, “The First Lie of the Trump Presidency,” Atlantic, January 13, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/the-absurdity-of-donald-trumps-lies/579622/.
a slow-motion coup attempt: Fiona Hill, “Yes, It Was a Coup Attempt. Here’s Why,” Politico, January 11, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/11/capitol-riot-self-coup-trump-fiona-hill-457549.
“4eva”: Aila Slisco, “After Senate Votes to Acquit, Trump Shares Bizarre Video Suggesting He Will Be President ‘4eva,’ ” Newsweek, February 5, 2020, https://www.newsweek.com/after-senate-votes-acquit-trump-shares-bizarre-video-suggesting-he-will-president-4eva-1485984.
President Niinistö praised: Maegan Vazquez, “Finnish President encourages Trump to keep democracy ‘going on,’ ” CNN, October 2, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/politics/sauli-niinisto-finland-president-counters-donald-trump/index.html.
take votes: Jim Rutenberg et al., “77 Days: Trump’s Campaign to Subvert the Election,” New York Times, January 31, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/trump-election-lie.html.
Praetorian Guard: Jonathan Stevenson, “Trump’s Praetorian Guard,” New York Review of Books, October 22, 2020, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/10/22/trump-law-order-praetorian-guard/.
her voluminous handbag: Peter Baker et al., “How Trump’s Idea for a Photo Op Led to Havoc in a Park,” New York Times, June 2, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/us/politics/trump-walk-lafayette-square.html.
cleared a crowd: Philip Bump, “The lingering questions about the clearing of Lafayette Square,” Washington Post, June 10, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/10/lingering-questions-about-clearing-lafayette-square/.
declare martial law: Amber Phillips, “Could Trump declare martial law to try to steal the election?,” Washington Post, December 24, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/24/could-trump-declare-martial-law-try-steal-election/.
unprecedented public letter: Ashton Carter et al., “Opinion: All 10 living former defense secretaries: Involving the military in election disputes would cross into dangerous territory,” Washington Post, January 3, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html.
federal court vacancies: John Gramlich, “How Trump compares with other recent presidents in appointing federal judges,” Pew Research Center, January 13, 2021, https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/01/13/how-trump-compares-with-other-recent-presidents-in-appointing-federal-judges/.
“his judges”: Paul Blumenthal, “Trump Calls Them ‘My Judges.’ Will They Side with Him in Separation of Powers Fight?,” HuffPost, October 24, 2019, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-judges-lawsuits_n_5db1d70ee4b03285e87ba2fd.
two thousand local newspapers: Margaret Sullivan, “These local newspapers say Facebook and Google are killing them. Now they’re fighting back,” Washington Post, February 5, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/west-virginia-google-facebook-newspaper-lawsuit/2021/02/03/797631dc-657d-11eb-8468-21bc48f07fe5_story.html.
including his lies: “NYT’s Ben Smith on the Future of the Media After Trump,” PBS, November 10, 2020, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/nyts-ben-smith-on-the-future-of-the-media-after-trump/.
Trump put a loyalist: Josh Dawsey, Lisa Rein, and Jacob Bogage, “Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service,” Washington Post, May 6, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundraiser-and-trump-ally-to-be-named-postmaster-general-giving-president-new-influence-over-postal-service-officials-say/2020/05/06/25cde93c-8fd4-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html.
his “enemies list”: Brett Samuels, “Trump ramps up rhetoric on media, calls press ‘the enemy of the people,’ ” Hill, April 5, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/437610-trump-calls-press-the-enemy-of-the-people.
belatedly acknowledged: Kate Conger, Mike Isaac, and Sheera Frenkel, “Twitter and Facebook Lock Trump’s Accounts After Violence on Capitol Hill,” New York Times, January 6, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/technology/capitol-twitter-facebook-trump.html.
147 Republican representatives: Karen Yourish, Larry Buchanan, and Denise Lu, “The 147 Republicans Who Voted to Overturn Election Results,” New York Times, last updated January 7, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html.
cowing them into submission: Jack Brewster, “They Will Get Primaried: Trump, his Allies, Threaten Republicans Who Won’t Object to Electoral College,” Forbes, January 6, 2021, https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackbrewster/2021/01/06/they-will-get-primaried-trump-allies-threaten-republicans-who-wont-object-to-electoral-college/?sh=60dcd00d1855.
“Donald Trump’s Republican Party”: Quint Forgey, “ ‘I’m going to be in your backyard’: Trump sons threaten primaries for GOP lawmakers,” Politico, January 6, 2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/trump-threat-primaries-gop-lawmakers-455366.
put against the wall: Hill and Gaddy, Mr. Putin, 25–26.
bayed for his blood: Melissa Macaya et al., “Trump’s second impeachment trial: Day 2,” CNN, February 10, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-impeachment-trial-02-10-2021/h_d2f3d6b3e463825e7f13c4a06b2f6451.
executive power and privilege: Ann E. Marimow, “A president ‘is not above the law,’ Trump lawyer asserts in batting back criticism of his impeachment defense,” Washington Post, January 30, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/a-president-is-not-above-the-law-trump-lawyer-asserts-in-batting-back-criticism-of-his-impeachment-defense/2020/01/30/7b9b06ce-438f-11ea-b5fc-eefa848cde99_story.html.
refused to help: Donald Ayer, “Why Bill Barr Is So Dangerous,” Atlantic, June 30, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/bill-barrs-dangerous-pursuit-executive-power/592951/; Michael Balsamo, “Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud,” Associated Press, December 1, 2020, https://apnews.com/article/barr-no-widespread-election-fraud-b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d.
refused to attend: Jacey Fortin, “Trump Is Not the First President to Snub an Inauguration,” New York Times, January 19, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/us/politics/presidents-who-skipped-inaugurations.html.
Prestwick Airport: Peter Swindon, “Donald Trump could be planning Turnberry trip as Scots airport told to expect a high-flyer the day before Joe Biden’s inauguration,” Sunday Post, January 3, 2021, https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/donald-trump-could-be-planning-turnberry-trip-as-scots-airport-told-to-expect-a-high-flyer-the-day-before-joe-bidens-inauguration/.
14. THE GREAT RECKONING
his inaugural speech: Joseph R. Biden, Jr., “Inaugural Address,” Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/01/20/inaugural-address-by-president-joseph-r-biden-jr/.
“the rules-based global order”: Michael E. O’Hanlon, The Art of War in an Age of Peace: U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2021), 180–181.
turnout was also historic: Jacob Fabina, “Despite Pandemic Challenges, 2020 Election Had Largest Increase in Voting Between Presidential Elections on Record,” United States Census Bureau, April 29, 2021, https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/04/record-high-turnout-in-2020-general-election.html.
highest vote tallies: Domenico Montanaro, “President-Elect Joe Biden Hits 80 Million Votes in Year of Record Turnout,” NPR, November 25, 2020, https://www.npr.org/2020/11/25/937248659/president-elect-biden-hits-80-million-votes-in-year-of-record-turnout.
the most secure on record: “Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees,” U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, November 12, 2020, https://www.cisa.gov/news/2020/11/12/joint-statement-elections-infrastructure-government-coordinating-council-election; United States of America—General Elections, 3 November 2020: Statement of Preliminary Findings and Conclusions (Washington: Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, 2020), https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/9/6/469437.pdf.
