9. Ibid., 134.
10. Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni, and Eric Schmitt, “Trump Urged Homeland Security Official to Close Border Despite an Earlier Promise of a Delay,” New York Times, April 12, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/trump-border.html.
11. Nick Miroff and Josh Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land’: President Trump Wants a Border Wall. He Wants It Black. And He Wants It by Election Day,” Washington Post, August 27, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/take-the-land-president-trump-wants-a-border-wall-he-wants-it-black-and-he-wants-it-by-election-day/2019/08/27/37b80018-c821-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html.
12. “Excerpts from the Times’s Interview with Trump,” New York Times, July 19, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-transcript.html.
13. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 25, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/889790429398528000.
14. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 26, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890207082926022656; tweet, July 26, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/890208319566229504.
15. Jordain Carney, “GOP Senator: Cuccinelli Couldn’t Win Senate Confirmation,” The Hill, June 10, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/447779-gop-senator-cuccinelli-couldnt-win-senate-confirmation.
16. “Transcript: President Trump on ‘Face the Nation,’ ” February 3, 2019, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-president-trump-on-face-the-nation-february-3-2019/.
17. Tim Alberta, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump (New York: Harper, 2019), 347.
18. “Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States,” White House, February 15, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-proclamation-declaring-national-emergency-concerning-southern-border-united-states/.
19. Miroff and Dawsey, “ ‘Take the Land.’ ”
Chapter 3: The Constitution Breaker, Part Two
1. “Freedom of Expression,” ACLU. https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression.
2. “Fake News,” Trump Twitter Archive, http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/fake%20news/ftff/1-20-2017_9-21-2019. “enemy of the people,” Trump Twitter Archive, http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/enemy%20of%20the%20people/ftff/1-20-2017_9-21-2019. Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Renews Pledge to ‘Take a Strong Look’ at Libel Laws,” New York Times, January 10, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/business/media/trump-libel-laws.html. Margaret Harding McGill and Daniel Lippman, “White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-conservative Bias,” Politico, August 7, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/07/white-house-tech-censorship-1639051. Corinne Ramey, “President Trump Can’t Block Twitter Users, Federal Appeals Court Rules,” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-trump-cant-block-twitter-users-federal-appeals-court-rules-11562685206. Mathew Ingram, “White House Revokes Press Passes for Dozens of Journalists,” Columbia Journalism Review, May 9, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/white-house-press-passes.php. Mike Calia, “Trump Calls for a Boycott of AT&T to Force ‘Big Changes’ at CNN,” CNBC, June 3, 2019, https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/03/trump-calls-for-a-boycott-of-att-to-force-big-changes-at-cnn.html.
3. Jon Allsop, “A Circus, and What Matters,” Columbia Journalism Review, July 12, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/trump-social-media-summit.php.
4. Donald J. Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the Presidential Social Media Summit,” White House, July 11, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-presidential-social-media-summit/.
5. Howard Kurtz, Michael Dobbs, and James V. Grimaldi, “In Rush to Air, CBS Quashed Memo Worries,” Washington Post, September 19, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31727-2004Sep18.html.
6. Howard Witt, “True or False: Blogs Always Tell It Straight,” Chicago Tribune, September 19, 2004, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-09-19-0409190265-story.html.
7. “United States District Court, Southern District of New York,” PEN AMERICAN CENTER, INC., v. Donald J. Trump, February 6, 2019, https://pen.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/PEN-America-v-Trump-Amended-Complaint-2.6.19.pdf, 6.
8. Michael M. Grynbaum and Elizabeth Williamson, “Trump Administration Uses Misleading Video to Justify Barring of CNN’s Jim Acosta,” New York Times, November 8, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/08/business/media/infowars-white-house-jim-acosta-cnn.html.
9. Dana Milbank, “The White House Revoked My Press Pass. It’s Not Just Me—It’s Curtailing Access for All Journalists,” Washington Post, May 8, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-white-house-has-revoked-my-press-pass-its-not-just-me—its-curtailing-access-for-all-journalists/2019/05/08/bb9794b4-71c0-11e9-8be0-ca575670e91c_story.html.
10. David Jackson, “Donald Trump Says He May Revoke Press Credentials for Other Reporters, Not Just CNN’s Jim Acosta,” USA Today, November 9, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/09/donald-trump-threatens-other-reporters-white-house-press-passes/1942013002/.
11. Milbank, “The White House Revoked My Press Pass. It’s Not Just Me—It’s Curtailing Access for All Journalists.”
13. “Gorka to Karem: ‘You’re Not a Journalist, You’re a Punk,’ ” Washington Post, July 11, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRogWTuS5HI.
14. Josh Gerstein, “Judge Tells White House to Reinstate Reporter’s Pass,” Politico, September 3, 2019, https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/03/judge-press-pass-brian-karem-1479990.
15. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, January 24, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/824078417213747200.
16. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 1, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/881273362454118400.
17. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, December 9, 2017, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/939485131693322240.
18. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 2, 2018, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1002954515941941249.
19. Amy B. Wang, “Trump Retweets Image Depicting ‘CNN Squashed Beneath His Shoe,’ ” Washington Post, December 24, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/24/trump-retweets-image-depicting-cnn-squashed-beneath-his-shoe/.
20. “Trump Retweets, Deletes Questionable Posts,” CNN, August 15, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/08/15/donald-trump-twitter-train-cnn-logo-delete.cnn.
21. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 2, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/881503147168071680.
22. Jon Allsop, “A Deadly Year for Mexico’s Journalists,” Columbia Journalism Review, August 27, 2019, https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/mexico_journalist_murders.php; Carolina de Assis, “Brazilian Journalists Receive Death Threats After Publishing Reports Critical of the Armed Forces,” Journalism in the Americas, April 11, 2019, https://knightcenter.utexas.edu/blog/00-20719-brazilian-journalists-receive-death-threats-after-publishing-reports-critical-armed-fo.
23. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 3, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1135499002626154496.
24. Sean Spicer, “Statement by Press Secretary Sean Spicer,” White House, January 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-sean-spicer/.
25. Brian Stelter, “Donald Trump Rips into Possible Warner Deal,” CNN, October 22, 2016, https://money.cnn.com/2016/10/22/media/donald-trump-att-time-warner/.
26. Brent Kendall and Drew FitzGerald, “Justice Department Files Lawsuit Challenging AT&T–Tim
e Warner Deal,” Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-expected-to-file-lawsuit-challenging-at-t-time-warner-deal-1511210955.
27. Jane Mayer, “The Making of the Fox News White House,” The New Yorker, March 11, 2019, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house.
28. Ibid.
29. David Shepardson, “White House Will Not Turn Over Documents on AT&T–Time Warner Merger,” Reuters, April 16, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-time-warner-at-t-congress/white-house-will-not-turn-over-documents-on-att-time-warner-merger-idUSKCN1RS28R.
30. Jan Wolfe, “Trump Threatens to Sue CNN, Seeks ‘Substantial’ Payment over Damages: Letter,” Reuters, October 18, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cnn/trump-threatens-to-sue-cnn-seeks-substantial-payment-over-damages-letter-idUSKBN1WX2B1.
31. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, June 9, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1137702218835136517.
32. “Former Sheriff David Clarke Temporarily Blocked from Tweeting Due to His Caustic Threats,” Wisconsin Gazette, January 5, 2018, https://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/political/former-sheriff-david-clarke-temporarily-blocked-from-tweeting/article_3c4d0c2a-f1b0-11e7-be93-63a875edfe99.html.
33. Ryan Mac and Blake Montgomery, “Twitter Suspended Proud Boys’ and Founder Gavin McInnes’ Accounts Ahead of the ‘Unite the Right’ Rally,” BuzzFeed News, August 11, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/twitter-suspends-proud-boys-and-founder-gavin-mcinnes.
34. Amy Forliti, “Actor James Woods Bashes Twitter After Getting Locked Out,” Associated Press, September 23, 2018, https://apnews.com/2909e6d34b1c4d18bfac5cd186a54095.
35. Linda Givetash, “Laura Loomer Banned from Twitter After Criticizing Ilhan Omar,” NBC, November 22, 2018, https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/laura-loomer-banned-twitter-after-criticizing-ilhan-omar-n939256.
36. Gus Garcia-Roberts, “Twitter Bans Trump-Supporting Hoaxter After USA TODAY Exposé,” USA Today, February 26, 2019, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/26/jacob-wohl-spread-lies-mueller-rbg-twitter-just-banned-him/2995037002/.
37. Brian Fung, “White House Proposal Would Have FCC and FTC Police Alleged Social Media Censorship,” CNN Business, August 10, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/09/tech/white-house-social-media-executive-order-fcc-ftc/index.html.
38. McGill and Lippman, “White House Drafting Executive Order to Tackle Silicon Valley’s Alleged Anti-conservative Bias.”
39. Jeffrey Gottfried, Galen Stocking, and Elizabeth Grieco, “Appendix B: Political Party Detailed Tables (2016–2018),” Pew Research Center, September 25, 2018, https://www.journalism.org/2018/09/25/news-media-attitudes-appendix-b-political-party-detailed-tables/.
40. Sam Stein, “New Poll: 43% of Republicans Want to Give Trump the Power to Shut Down Media,” The Daily Beast, August 8, 2018, https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-poll-43-of-republicans-want-to-give-trump-the-power-to-shut-down-media.
41. Bryant-Jon Anteola, “Fresno State Professor Stirs Outrage, Calls Barbara Bush an ‘Amazing Racist,’ ” Fresno Bee, April 17, 2018, https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article209197719.html.
42. Patrick Hofstetter, “Remove Randa Jarrar from Fresno State University for Racist Comments,” Change.org, 2018. https://www.change.org/p/california-state-university-remove-randa-jarrar-from-fresno-state-university-for-racist-comments.
43. Ben Shapiro, “Here’s Why That Nasty Fresno State Professor Shouldn’t Be Fired for Her Gross Barbara Bush Tweet,” The Daily Wire, April 19, 2018, https://www.dailywire.com/news/29616/heres-why-nasty-fresno-state-professor-shouldnt-be-ben-shapiro.
Chapter 4: The Enemy of Democracy
1. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157306452228366336.
2. Robert Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election,” vol. 2, US Department of Justice, March 2019, https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Muelller-Report-Redacted-Vol-II-Released-04.18.2019-Word-Searchable.-Reduced-Size.pdf, 3, 44.
3. Ibid., 85, 86, 88.
4. Ibid., 114, 115–16, 118.
5. such as like Quinta Jurecic, the managing editor of Lawfare, deserve a lot of credit for isolating these incidents from the report and explaining them to the public; see Jurecic, “Obstruction of Justice in the Mueller Report: A Heat Map,” Lawfare, April 21, 2019. https://www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map.
6. “Former Republican Federal Prosecutors Speak Out Against President Trump’s Obstruction of Justice,” Republicans for the Rule of Law, May 30, 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwnMpneFR34.
7. Ibid.
8. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, July 9, 2019, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1148559443845668864.
9. Canadian Press, “ ‘I Can’t Kill These People,’ Trump Says of Canadian Government as NAFTA Deadline Looms,” iHeart Radio, August 31, 2018, https://www.iheartradio.ca/cjad/news/i-can-t-kill-these-people-trump-says-of-canadian-government-as-nafta-deadline-looms-1.7075888.
10. “Top Trading Partners—December 2018,” United States Census Bureau, August 29, 2019, https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/top/top1812yr.html.
11. Jim Gomez, “Rights Group Calls Duterte’s Drug War Crime Against Humanity,” Associated Press, July 8, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/e54b1bede70846dca1b3ba269563eba2.
12. Uri Friedman, “Turkey’s Referendum: How Democracies Decline,” The Atlantic, April 17, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/turkey-referendum-democracy/523257/.
13. Susan B. Glasser, “How Trump Made War on Angela Merkel and Europe,” The New Yorker, December 17, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/how-trump-made-war-on-angela-merkel-and-europe.
14. 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, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/nato-president-trump.html.
15. “North Korea Profile,” Freedom in the World 2018, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2018/north-korea.
16. “Report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,” Human Rights Council, United Nations, https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G14/108/66/PDF/G1410866.pdf?OpenElement, 12.
17. Tammy Auber, “Trump Explains Kim Jong Un’s Murderous Brutality: ‘He’s Tough,’ ” Mediaite, June 13, 2018, https://www.mediaite.com/tv/trump-dodges-when-confronted-on-kims-brutality-a-lot-of-other-people-have-done-bad-things-too/.
18. F. Brinley Bruton, “Trump on Otto Warmbier’s Death: Kim Jong Un Wasn’t to Blame,” NBC News, February 28, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-otto-warmbier-death-kim-jong-un-wasn-t-blame-n977516.
19. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, May 25, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1132459370816708608.
20. “Trump: Trump on Kim: Tough Talk . . . ‘and Then We Fell in Love,’ ” Associated Press, September 30, 2019, https://www.apnews.com/4d56f6e8f99d4eefb2f22b7a6dd072d0.
21. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 2, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1157306452228366336.
22. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, October 1, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178986524630802432.
23. Nectar Gan, “Want to Escape Poverty? Replace Pictures of Jesus with Xi Jinping, Christian Villagers Urged,” South China Morning Post, November 14, 2017, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2119699/praise-xi-jinping-not-jesus-escape-poverty-christian.
24. Christopher Bodeen, “Group: Officials Destroying Crosses, Burning Bibles in China,” Associated Press, September 10, 2018, https://www.apnews.com/c09b2ee4b71540c8a7fd6178820c5970; Chris Buckley, “China’s Prisons Swell Afte
r Deluge of Arrests Engulfs Muslims,” New York Times, August 31, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/world/asia/xinjiang-china-uighurs-prisons.html.
25. Congressional-Executive Commission on China—Annual Report 2018, Congressional-Executive Commission on China, October 10, 2018, https://www.cecc.gov/sites/chinacommission.house.gov/files/documents/Annual%20Report%202018_2.pdf, 2.
26. “China’s Xi Allowed to Remain ‘President for Life’ as Term Limits Removed,” BBC, March 11, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-43361276.
27. Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), tweet, August 14, 2019, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1161774305895694336.
28. ” ‘They Just Kill.’: Ongoing Extrajudicial Executions and Other Violations in the Philippines’ ‘War Against Drugs,’ ” Amnesty International, 2019, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA3505782019ENGLISH.PDF; Matthew Tostevin and Neil Jerome Morales, “War on Numbers: Philippines Targets Drug Killing Data,” Reuters, July 18, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-drugs/war-on-numbers-philippines-targets-drug-killing-data-idUSKCN1UD1CJ.
29. “Transcript of Call Between President Trump and Philippine President Duterte,” Washington Post, May 2, 2017, https://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/politics/transcript-of-call-between-president-trump-and-philippine-president-duterte/2446/.
30. “Turkey Country Report,” Freedom in the World 2019, Freedom House, https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2019/turkey.
31. “Remarks by President Trump and President Erdoğan of Turkey Before Bilateral Meeting,” White House, September 21, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-erdogan-turkey-bilateral-meeting/.
32. “Remarks by President Trump and President Erdoğan of Turkey Before Bilateral Meeting—Osaka, Japan,” White House, June 29, 2019, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-president-erdogan-turkey-bilateral-meeting-osaka-japan.
33. Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom), tweet, July 16, 2018, https://twitter.com/WalshFreedom/status/1018886553278525440.