Schmidt S. - Donald Trump V. the United States - Inside the Struggle to Stop a President

After he was pushed out:Adam Goldman and Michael Schwirtz, “Michael Flynn Was Paid by Russian-Linked Firms, Letter Shows,” New York Times, March 16, 2017.

Cohen sent an email to a spokesman:Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

Manafort received a contract:Jeff Horwitz and Chad Day, “AP Findings on Trump Associate’s Work for Russian Oligarch,” Associated Press, March 22, 2017.

the two met in New York:Mueller, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election.”

Two days earlier:“Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation,” U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, December 2019, www.justice.gov/​storage/​120919-examination.pdf.

“I am certain his behavior continues”:Sydney Leathers, “Two Thumbs Down on Weiner Doc,” Washington Babylon, August 11, 2016.

the Daily Mail paid her $30,000 :Benjamin Weiser, “Anthony Weiner’s Lawyers Question Motivation of Sexting Victim,” New York Times, September 14, 2017.

more than 300,000 emails:“A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election,” U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, June 2018, www.justice.gov/​file/​1071991/​download.

the Dutch could see precisely:Huib Modderkolk, “Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference in US-Elections,” De Volkskrant, January 25, 2018.

Walsh and his team contended:Lawrence E. Walsh, Firewall: The Iran-Contra Conspiracy and Cover-Up (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).

Bush talked to Attorney General William P. Barr:Bob Woodward, Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999).

On October 31:David Corn, “A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump,” Mother Jones, October 31, 2016.

IV. “OH, GOD”

82 percent chance of winning:Josh Katz, “2016 Elections Forecast: Who Will Be President,” New York Times, November 8, 2016.

“It was only a matter of minutes”:“U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on the U.S. Attorney Firings,” U.S. Senate, May 15, 2007, gulcfac.typepad.com/​georgetown_university_law/​files/​comey.transcript.pdf.

“standing up for what he believed”:President Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at Nomination of James Comey as Director of the FBI,” White House Press Office, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/​the-press-office/​2013/​06/​21/​remarks-president-nomination-james-comey-director-fbi.

“a phony, a fraud”:“Transcript of Mitt Romney’s Speech on Donald Trump,” New York Times, March 3, 2016.

“What Jim Comey did”:Jerrold Nadler, interview on New Day, CNN, November 14, 2016, archive.org/​details/​CNNW_20161114_110000_New_Day/​start/​2040/​end/​2100.

“Can you imagine”:Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter, December 12, 2016, 8:17 a.m., twitter.com/​realDonaldTrump/​status/​808299841147248640.

“If Russia, or some other entity”:Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter, December 15, 2016, 9:24 a.m., twitter.com/​realDonaldTrump/​status/​809403760099422208.

For only four of the previous sixty years:Chris Canipe, “Republicans Take Control,” Wall Street Journal, January 20, 2017.

The Russians had meddled:“Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections,” Office of the Director of National Intelligence, January 6, 2017, www.dni.gov/​files/​documents/​ICA_2017_01.pdf.

six human sources:Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018).

uniquely important in identifying:Julian E. Barnes, Adam Goldman, and David E. Sanger, “C.I.A. Informant Extracted from Russia Had Sent Secrets to U.S. for Decades,” New York Times, September 17, 2019.

“some guy in his home”:“Donald Trump on Russia, Advice from Barack Obama, and How He Will Lead,” Time, December 7, 2016.

He asked one of his aides:Josh Campbell, “ ‘No Turning Back Now’: The Inside Story of James Comey’s Trip to Trump Tower,” CNN, September 16, 2019.

“I don’t believe in human sources”:Woodward, Fear .

Trump fixated on the prostitutes:James Comey, memorandum, January 7, 2017.

“very smart”:Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter, December 30, 2016, 2:41 p.m., twitter.com/​realDonaldTrump/​status/​814919370711461890.

In the column:David Ignatius, “Why Did Obama Dawdle on Russia’s Hacking?,” Washington Post, January 12, 2017.

ACT THREE V. THE ROAD TO MUELLER

In this chapter, when examining the history of Atlantic City and the life of Paddy McGahn, I referenced Nelson Johnson’s 2002 book, Boardwalk Empire, and Timothy L. O’Brien’s 1998 book, Bad Bet .

every U.S. president since John Adams:Betty C. Monkman, “John and Abigail Adams: A Tradition Begins,” White House Historical Association, www.whitehousehistory.org/​john-and-abigail-adams-a-tradition-begins.

Obama’s crimson drapes:Katie Kindelan, “Donald Trump Brings Gold Curtains, Winston Churchill Bust to the Oval Office,” ABC News, January 21, 2017.

His mother suggested:Nelson Johnson, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City (New York: Fall River Press, 2002).

He was even so appreciative:Michael Daly, “The Decorated Marine Who Called Trump a ‘Draft-Dodging Bastard’ to His Face,” Daily Beast, November 29, 2016.

“Jack, I’m 13 and 0”:John R. O’Donnell, Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall, with James Rutherford (Hertford, N.C.: Crossroad Press, 2017).

Paddy had charged Trump:“Trump Sues Former Lawyer Patrick ‘Paddy’ McGahn,” Press of Atlantic City, October 6, 1995.

“expert at interpreting things”:Kendall Taggart and Chris Geidner, “Trump’s Lawyer: We Met with Him in Pairs to Avoid Lies,” BuzzFeed News, October 6, 2016.

“There’s three sides to every story”:Donald F. McGahn II, “A Conversation with Don McGahn,” Stockton University, January 23, 2020.

McCabe told Flynn:Andrew McCabe, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2019).

they could see Trump telling movers:James B. Stewart, Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law (New York: Penguin Press, 2019).

The agents said that:FD-302 for Michael Flynn, Federal Bureau of Investigation, February 15, 2017, assets.documentcloud.org/​documents/​5633260/​12-17-18-Redacted-Flynn-Interview-302.pdf.

“What a beautiful black sky”:McCabe, Threat .